Sothebys: The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 2, N11776, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 12, 2025 - December 12, 2025
Page Size: 193 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
25 Achard, Franz Carl

Bestimmung der Bestandtheile einiger Edelsteine.

 Berlin 1779 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 889.00
26 Agricola, Georgius

Libri quinque de mensuris & ponderibus.

Basel 1533 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,096.00
27 Agricola, Georgius

De ortu & causis subterraneorum Lib. V. De natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra Lib. I. De natura fossilium Lib. X. ...

 Basel 1546 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,160.00
28 Agricola, Georgius

De re metallica Libri XII.... De animantibus subterraneis. Lib. I. De ortu & causis subterraneorum. Lib. V. De natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra. ...

 Basel 1657 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,810.00
29 Albertus Magnus

De mineralibus.

 [Cologne: about 1500] USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 44,450.00
30 Albertus Magnus

Diui Alberti Magni summi in via peripathetica philosophi, theologique profundissimi Naturalia ac supranaturalia opera per Marcum Antonium Zimaram nuper castigata erroribusque purgata

 (Venice 1517- 1518 [but 1519]) USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,445.00
31 Albertus Magnus

De mineralibus et rebus metallicis libri quinque.

 Cologne 1569 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
32 Albertus Magnus

Ein newer Albertus Magnus von Weybern und Geburten der Kinder, sampt ihren Artzneyen.

(Augsburg 1571 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
33 Albinus, Petrus

Meisznische Land und Berg-Chronica,

Dresden 1590 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,143.00
34 Almedigen, Harrsch --- Ferdinand Ludwig

Pyrotechnia sublimis saeculi primaevi, vel Liber meteorum.

 Vienna 1778 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 381.00
35 (Amber) --- Philipp Jacob Hartmann

Succini Prussici physica & civilis historia cum demonstratione ex autopsia & intimiori rerum experientia deducta.

 Frankfurt 1677 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
36 Bacmeister, Jean

Essai sur la bibliotheque et le cabinet de curiosites et d'histoire naturelle de l'Academie des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg.

 St. Petersburg 1776 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,096.00
37 Barba, Alvaro Alonso

[Arte de los metales]. The first book of the art of metalls, in which is declared the manner of their generation and the concomitants of them...

London 1670 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,175.00
38 Barba, Alvaro Alonso

[Arte de los metales]. Berg-Buchlein darinnen von der Metallen und Mineralien Generalia und Ursprung ... In Teutsch ubersetzet von I.L.M.C.

Hamburg 1676 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 508.00
39 Barba, Alvaro Alonso

[Arte de los metales]. A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises upon Metals, Mines and Minerals. In Four Parts.

 London 1738 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 381.00
40 Barba, Alvaro Alonso

[Arte de los metales]. Docimasie oder Probir- und Schmelz-kunst & heraus gegeben von Matthia[s] Godar.

 Vienna 1749 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 381.00
41 Baumeister, Joseph Edler von

Die Welt in Bildern vorzuglich zum Vergnugen und Unterricht der Jugend. Vierter Band.

 Vienna 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,524.00
42 Becher, Johann Joachim

De nova temporis dimetiendi ratione, et accurata horologiorum constructione, theoria & experientia. . . . [And:] Minera arenaria perpetua: sive prodromus historia.

 London 1680 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,810.00
43 Beringer, Johann Bartholomaeus Adam, and Georg Ludvig Hueber

Lithographiae wirceburgensis, ducentis lapidum figuratorium a potiori insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornate specimen primum.

Wurzburg 1726 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 19,050.00
44 Berzelius, Jons Jacob

Forsok, att, genom anandandet at den electrokemiska theorien och de kemiska proportionerna, grundlagga ett rent vettenskapligt system for mineralogien.

 Stockholm 1814 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,795.00
45 Besson, Jacques, Dauphinois

Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum.

Lyons 1578 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,064.00
46 Beudant, Francois Sulpice

Voyage mineralogique et geologique, en Hongrie, pendant l'annee 1818.

 Paris 1822 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
47 Biringucci, Vannoccio

De La Pirotechnia. Libri X...

Venice 1540 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,255.00
48 Biringucci, Vannoccio --- Jaques Vincent, trans.

La Pyrotechnie, ou art de feu, contenant dix livres...

 Paris 1556 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,524.00
49 Biringucci, Vannoccio

Pirotechnia. Li Diece Libri Della Pirotechnia...

 [Venice 1559] 1558 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
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