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

Auction Details

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
201 Sowerby, James

Exotic Mineralogy, or, Colored Figures of Foreign Minerals as a Supplement to British Mineralogy.

London 1811, 1817 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 31,750.00
202 Spada, Giovanni Giacomo

Corporum lapidefactorum agri Veronensis catalogus quae apud Joannem Jacobum Spadam Gretianae archipresbyterum asservantur.

Verona 1744 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,397.00
203 Spallanzani, Lazzaro

Travels in the Two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines.

London 1798 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 889.00
204 Swammerdam, Jan

Historia insectorum generalis, ofte Algemeene Verhandeling van de Bloedeloose Dierkens...

Utrecht 1669 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,540.00
205 Tavernier, Jean Baptiste

Les Six Voyages... en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes.

Paris 1676 and 1677 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
206 Tavernier, Jean Baptiste

The Six Voyages... through Turkey into Persia and the East Indies for the space of Forty Years... to which is added the Description of the Seraglio [bound with:] A Collection of Several Relations & Treatises.

London 1678, 1680 USD 4,200.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
207 Jean Baptiste Tavernier

Les Six Voyages... en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes.

[Amsterdam:] suivant la copie imprimee a Paris 1679 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,016.00
208 Tavernier, Jean Baptiste

Beschreibung der Sechs Reisen...In Turckey, Persien und Indien innerhalb viertzig Jahren...

Geneva 1681 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
209 Trebra, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von

Observations de M. de Trebra, sur l'interieur des montagnes, precedees d'un Plan d'une histoire generale de la Mineralogie par M. de Veltheim;

Paris 1787 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,064.00
210 Vincent, Levinus

Wondertooneel der Nature.

Amsterdam 1706-1715 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 25,400.00
211 Vincentius Bellovacensis

Speculum naturale. Part I.

[Strassburg not after December 1481] USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,620.00
212 Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Von den ausserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien.

Leipzig 1774 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
213 Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Neue Theorie von der Entstehung der Gange, mit Anwendung auf den Bergbau.

Freiberg 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 635.00
214 Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Neue Theorie von der Entstehung der Gange, mit Anwendung auf den Bergbau.

Freiberg 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 508.00
215 [Werner, Abraham Gottlob] --- Thomas Weaver, trans.

A Treatise on the External Characters of Fossils, translated from the German ... by Thomas Weaver.

Dublin 1805 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,270.00
216 [Werner, Abraham Gottlob]

Catalogo di una Collezione di Minerali disposta secondo il sistema del celebre Werner, ed acquistata per uso de'licei del regno d'Italia a Freyburg dalla direzione generale di pubblica istruzione.

Milan 1813 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 508.00
217 Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Mineral-System.

Freiberg and Vienna 1817 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 381.00
218 Wulfens, Xavier

Abhandlung vom karnthnerischen Bleyspate.

Wien 1785 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 82,550.00
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