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
176 Porta, Giovanni Battista della

Natural Magick.

 London 1658 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,556.00
177 (Probier Buchlein)

Probier Buchlein auff Goldt, Silber, Ertz unnd Methal Mit vil kostlichen Alchimistichen Kunsten, sampt aller zugehor, auch Instrumenten darzu dienstlich...

 Frankfurt 1574 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 16,510.00
178 Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius

Institutionum oratoriarum libri duodecim.

 Venice 1521 (but 1522) USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,143.00
179 Rashleigh, Philip

Specimens of British Minerals.

 London 1797 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,795.00
180 Rashleigh, Philip

Specimens of British Minerals.

 London 1797-1802 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,985.00
181 Readwin, [Thomas Allison]

The gold discoveries in Merionethshire, and a mode for its economic extraction.

Manchester [1860] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 762.00
182 Reaumur, Rene Antoine Ferchault de

L'Art de convertir le Fer forge en Acier, et l'art d'adoucir la fer fondu, ou de faire des ouvrages de fer fondu aussi finis que de fer forge.

 Paris 1722 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
183 Remy, Pierre

Catalogue raisonne des tableaux, estampes, coquilles, & autres curiosites: apres le deces de feu Monsieur Dezalier d'Argenville, maitre des comptes, & membre des Societes royale de Londres & de Monpellier.

 Paris 1766 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 635.00
184 Richter, Christian

Saxoniae electoralis miraculosa terra, oder Des weltberuhmten Chur-Sachsen-Landes bewunderns-wurdige Erde, ...

 Schneeberg 1732 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 17,780.00
185 Rio, Andres Manuel de

Elementos de Orictognosia, o del Conocimiento de los Fosiles... segun los Principios de A. G. Werner...

Mexico 1795 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
186 Rome de l'Isle, Jean-Baptiste Louis

Essai de Cristallographie, ou description des figures geometriques...

Paris 1772 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
187 Rzaczynski, Gabriel

Historia naturalis curiosa regni Poloniae, magni ducatus Lituaniae, annexarumq[ue] provinciarum, in tractatus XX divisa.

Sandomir 1721 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,556.00
188 Sage, Balthazar-Georges

Description methodique du cabinet de l'Ecole Royale des Mines [bound with:] Supplement a la description methodique du cabinet de l'Ecole Royale des Mines.

 Paris 1784 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 381.00
189 Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob

Specimen lithographiae helveticae curiosae, quo lapides ex figuratis helveticis selectissimi aeri incisi sistuntur et describuntur.

Zurich 1702 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,413.00
190 Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob

Bibliotheca scriptorum historiae naturalis omnium terrae regionum inservientium. Historiae naturalis helvetiae prodromus...

Zurich 1716 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,286.00
191 Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob

Museum diluvianum.

Zurich 1716 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
192 Schindler, Christian Carl

Der geheimde Munz-Guardein und Berg-Probiere...Welchem wohl corrigiret beygefuget ist die vormahls herausgegebene Metallische Probier-Kunst.

 Frankfurt 1705 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 762.00
193 Schmidel, Casimir Christoph

Fossilivm Metalla et Res Metallicas Concernentivm Glebae suis coloribus expressae quas descripsit et digessit D. Casimirus Christophorus Schmiedel.

Nuremberg 1753 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,080.00
194 Schmidel, Casimir Christoph

Vorstellung einiger merkwurdiger Versteinerungen mit kurzen Anmerkungen versehen.

Erlangen 1793 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,620.00
195 Schonberg, Abraham von

Ausfuhrliche Berg-Information zur dienlichen Nachricht vor alle, die bey dem Berg- und Schmeltzwesen zu schaffen.

Leipzig 1693 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 508.00
196 Schreibers, Carl von

Beytrage zur Geschichte und Kenntniss meteorischer Stein- und Metall-Massen, und der Erscheinungen, welche deren Niederfallen zu begleiten pflegen.

 Vienna 1820 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 15,240.00
197 Schreittmann, Ciriacus

Probierbuchlin. Frembde und subtile Kunst, vormals im Truck nie gesehen, von Woge und Gewicht, Auch von allerhandt Proben, auff Ertz, Golt, Silber, und andere Methall, &c.

 Frankfurt 1580 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
198 Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio

Principia mineralogiae systematicae et practicae.

Prague 1722 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,175.00
199 Societe d'Arcueil

Memoires de Physique et de Chimie de la Societe d'Arcueil.

 Paris 1807, 1809, and 1817 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,064.00
200 Sowerby, James

British Mineralogy, or, Colored Figures Intended to Elucidate the Mineralogy of Great Britain.

 London 1804, 1806, 1809, 1811, 1817 (1802) USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 17,780.00
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