Sothebys: The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1, N11833, New York

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Auction Date
December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025
Page Size: 24 items in 1 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Agricola, Georgius

Bermannus, sive de re metallica.

Basel: 1530 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 35,560.00
2 Agricola, Georgius

De re metallica libri XII. Qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur,

Basel 1556 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 60,960.00
3 Agricola, Georgius

De re metallica libri XII. Qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia. ... Eivsdem De animantibus svbterraneis liber

Basel 1561 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,400.00
4 Albertus Magnus

Natvralia Alberti Magni darinn durch sechsz kurze Buchlin viel Haimligkaiten de Natur beschrieben. Von Weibern und geburten de Kinder Auch lebendiger abcontrafactur ettlicher Kreuter ...

(Strasbourg 1548 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,510.00
5 Arfe Y Villafane, Juan de

Quilatador de la plata, oro, y piedras.

Valladolid 1572 USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
6 Aristotle

Opera [Greek]. Contains also works of Galenus (II); Philo Judaeus (II); Theophrastus (II-IV); Alexander Aphrodisaeus (IV).

Venice 1495--1498 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 660,400.00
7 Aristotle (pseudo-) & Isidorus Hispalensis

Lapidarius. Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur. Physiognomia.

Merseburg 1473 USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 381,000.00
8 Darwin, Charles

The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Being the First Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836.

London 1842 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 53,340.00
9 Diderot, Denis and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, editors

Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des science, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres (volumes I-XVII).

Paris 1761-1780 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 88,900.00
10 Euclid

Elementa geometriae (Latin, translated by Adelard of Bath, edited and with commentary by Campanus of Novara).

Venice 1482 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 177,800.00
11 Gautier d'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques.

Paris 1777 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 127,000.00
12 Gautier D'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. Partie I. Regne Mineral.

Paris 1781 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 48,260.00
13 Gautier d'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. Partie I. Regne Mineral [all published].

Paris 1781 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 40,640.00
14 Hamilton, Sir William

Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London ... Observations sur les volcans des Deux Siciles.

Naples 1776 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 107,950.00
15 Hooke, Robert

Micrographia; or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies.

London 1665 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 40,640.00
16 Imperato, Ferrante

Dell'historia naturale libri xxvii.

Naples 1599 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 22,860.00
17 Leupold, Jacob [and Joachim Ernst Scheffler]

Theatrum machinaruvm.

Leipzig 1724-39 USD 32,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
18 Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich

Osnovy khimii [Principles of Chemistry, in Russian & Cyrillic].

St. Petersburg 1869--1871 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 114,300.00
19 Pliny

Historia naturalis. Ed: Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.

Rome USD 900,000.00 - 1,200,000.00 USD 1,270,000.00
20 Pliny

Historia naturalis [Italian] (Tr: Christophorus Landinus).

Venice 1476 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 355,600.00
21 (Probier Buchlein)

Probir Buchlin, auff Goldt, Silber, alle Ertz und Metall. Mit vil kostbarlichen Alchimeijschen Kunsten. Sampt allem zugehor und Instrumenten darzu dienlich. Die Bergknamen, fur die newen angonde Bergkleut.

Strassaburg 1530 USD 22,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 95,250.00
22 Rumpf, Georg Eberhard

D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, behelzende eene Beschryvinge van... Schaalvisschen.

Amsterdam 1705 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,320.00
23 Savery, Thomas

The Miner's Friend; or an Engine to Raise Water by Fire, Described.

London 1702 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 82,550.00
24 Smith, William

A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland;

London 1815 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 139,700.00
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