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
151 Lohneyss, Georg Engelhard von

Bericht von Bergkwerk, wie man dieselben Bawen und in guten Wolfstandt bringen soll.

Zellerfeld 1617 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,890.00
152 Lohneyss, Georg Engelhard von

Bericht von Bergwercken.

Leipzig 1690 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 762.00
153 Lonitzer, Adam

Kreuterbuch, Kunstliche Conterfeytunge der Baume, Stauden, Hecken, Kreuter, Getreyde, Gewurtze.

Frankfurt 1616 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,620.00
154 Lovell, Robert

Panzooryktologia, sive, Panzoologicomineralogia, or a compleat history of animals and minerals [bound with] Pammineralogicon, or an universal history of mineralls.

Oxford 1661 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,524.00
155 Mercati, Michele

Metallotheca. Opus Posthumum... opera autem, & studio Joannis Mariae Lancisii... illustratum. Cui accesit appendix cum XIX recens inventiis iconibus.

Rome 1719 (colophon 1717) USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,620.00
156 (Mining and Metals) --- Corpus Juris & Systema

Corpus juris & Systema rerum Metallicarum, oder Neu-verfasstes Berh-Buch, bestehund aus allerhand so alten ais neuern Collectaneis von Bergwercks-Sachen.

Frankfurt am M. 1698 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,651.00
157 Naldi, Pio

Delle gemme e delle regole per valutarle. Operetta ad uso dei giojellieri principianti.

Bologna 1791 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,778.00
158 Neri, Antonio

L'arte Vetraria distinta in libri sette.

Florence 1612 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,651.00
159 Oppel, Friedrich Wilhelm von

Anleitung zur Markscheidekunst.

Dresden 1749 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,143.00
160 Palassou, Pierre Bernard

Essai sur la mineralogie des Monts-Pyrenees, suivi d'un catalogue des plantes observees dans cette chaine des montagnes.

Paris 1781 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
161 Bernard Palissy

Le Moyen de devenir riche, et la maniere veritable par laquelle tous les hommes de la France pourront apprendre a multiplier & augmenter leurs thresors & possessions.

Paris 1636 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
162 Bernard de Palissy

Ouevres... Revues sur les Exemplaires de la Bibliotheque du Roi, avec des notes. Edited by Faujas de Saint Fond and Nicholas Gobet.

Paris 1777 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 889.00
163 Paracelsus (P.A.T. Bombast von Hohenheim)

Ettliche Tractatus... I Von Naturlichen dingen. II. Beschreibung etliche Kreutter. III. Von Metallen. IIII. Von Mineralen. V. Von Edlen Gesteinen.

Strasbourg 1570 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,096.00
164 Paracelsus (P.A.T. Bombast von Hohenheim)

Chirurgische Bucher und Schriffeen... sambt einem Appendice... durch Johannem Huserum.

Strassburg 1605 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,970.00
165 Pettus, John, Sir

Fodinae Regales. Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland.

London 1670 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,651.00
166 Plattes, Gabriel

A Discovery of Subterraneall Treasure, viz. of all manner of Mines and Mineralls, from the Gold to the Coale.

London 1639 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,175.00
167 Playfair, John

Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth.

Edinburgh 1802 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
168 Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder)

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

Venice 12 September 1489 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,096.00
169 Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder)

Historia naturalis. Ed Philippus Beroaldus.

Venice 1491 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,430.00
170 Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder)

Historia naturalis. Ed. Hermolaus Barbarus. Rev. Johannes Baptista Palmarius.

Venice 1497 [not before 13 February 1498] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,590.00
171 Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder)

Historiae mundi libro XXXVII ex postrema ad vetustos codices collatione cum annotationibus et indice.

Basel 1539 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,905.00
172 Plot, Robert

The Natural History of Stafford-Shire.

Oxford 1686 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,160.00
173 Porta, Giovanni Battista della

Phytognomonica.

Naples 1588 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,064.00
174 Porta, Giovanni Battista della

Phytognomonica.

Naples 1588 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,064.00
175 Porta, Giovanni Battista della

De distillatione lib. IX.

Rome 1608 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,064.00
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