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
101 Faujas de Saint Fond, Barthelemy

Essai de geologie ou memoires pour server a l'histoire naturelle du globe.

 Paris 1805, 1809 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
102 Ferber, Johann Jakob

Four eighteenth-century works in two volumes (three bound in a contemporary sammelband) on the author's geological travels through Italy, being:

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
103 [Ferber, Johann Jakob, editor]

Ist es vorteilhafter, die silberhaltigen Erze und Schmelzhuttenprodukte anzuquicken, als sie zu schmelzen? ...

 Leipzig and Vienna 1787 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,985.00
104 Fersman, Aleksandr Evgenievich

Kamni Rossii [Precious and Colored Stones of Russia].

Petrograd; Leningrad 1920 [i.e.1922]; 1925 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
105 Gamboa, Francisco Javier

Comentarios a las ordenanzas de minas...

 Madrid 1761 USD 4,200.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
106 Gatterer, Christoph Wilhelm Jakob

Verzeichnis der vornehmsten Schriftsteller uber alle Theile des Bergwesens. Erstes Stuck I-Zweytes Stuck].

 Gottingen 1787-862 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 635.00
107 Gellert, Christlieb Ehregott

Anfangsgrunde zur Probierkunst, als der zweyte Theil der practischen Metallurgischen Chimie, worinnen verschiedene neue Arte zuverlassig zu probieren.

Leipzig 1755 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,080.00
108 Gersaint, Edme-Francois

Two works bound in one volume:

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 635.00
109 Gesner, Conrad

De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot [Io. Kentmani, Georgji Fabricj, Severini, Goebelij, ...

 Zurich 1565 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,255.00
110 Glauber, Johann Rudolph

A Description of new Philosophical Furnaces, or a new Art of Distilling, divided into five parts.

 London 1651-52 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 889.00
111 Glauber, Johann Rudolf

The Works... containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy... translated into English... by Christopher Packe.

 London 1689 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 762.00
112 Gobet, Nicolas

Les anciens mineralogistes du royaume de France.

 Paris 1779 USD 2,600.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
113 [Great Exhibition]

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. [with:] Reports of the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into Which the Exhibition was Divided.

 London 1851, 1852 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,350.00
114 Grew, Nehemiah

Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or a catalogue description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College...

London 1681 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,175.00
115 Grew, Nehemiah

Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or a catalogue description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College...

London 1681 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,032.00
116 Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig

Untersuchungen uber die Formen der leblosen Natur. Erster Band [all published].

Gottingen 1821 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
117 Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig

Untersuchungen uber die Formen der leblosen Natur.

 Gottingen 1821 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
118 Hauy, Rene Just

Traite de mineralogie.

 Paris 1801 USD 8,500.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,890.00
119 Hebenstreit, Johann Ernst

Museum Richterianum continens Fossilia Animalia Vegetabilia Mar. Illustrata Iconibus et Commentariis... accedit De Gemmis Scalptis Antiquis Liber Singularis.

Leipzig 1743--1748 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 22,860.00
120 Henkel, Johann Friedrich

Henkelivus in Mineralogia redivivus, das ist; Hencklisch aufrichtiger und grundlicher Unterricht von der Mineralogie, oder Wissenschaft von Wassern, Erdsaften, Salzen, Erden, Steinen und Ertzen.

 Dresden 1747 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,175.00
121 Hill, John

A General Natural History: or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals of the Different Parts of the World.

 London 1748-1752 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
122 Hollunder, Christian Furchtegott

Berg- und huttenmannischer Wegweiser durch Ober-Schlesien.

 Berlin 1828 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,651.00
123 Hooke, Robert

Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses.

 London 1667 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 27,940.00
124 Juncker, Johann

Conspectus chemiae theoretico-practicae

 in forma tabularum repraesentatus, in quibus physica, praesertim subterranea, et corporum naturalium principia habitius inter se, proprietates, vires et usus itemque praecipua chemiae pharmaceuticae et mechanica fundamenta dogmatibus Becheri et Stahli pot 1730--1738 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 508.00
125 Kaempfer, Engelbert

De Beschryving van Japan, behelsende een Verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen Staat en Regeering van dat Ryk, van deszelfs Tempels, ...

 Amsterdam 1733 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,175.00
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