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Auction Name Private Alchemy and Chemistry Library Total Sales (USD) 155,006.20
Auction Date December 13, 2024 - December 13, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 148,690.00
Sale Number #339514 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 292,365.00
Total Lots 619
Sold Lots 548 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 152,723.00
% of Lots Sold 88.53% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 300,285.00
Unsold Lots 71 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 51.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
400A

Depiction of the Chemical Elements oil on panel 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. signed and dated 1747

1747 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,680.00
425 GESNER, Conrad

The Practise of the New and Old Physicke, Wherein is Contained the Most Excellent Secrets of Physicke and Philosophie, divided into foure Books.

1599 USD 1,250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,720.00
331A

Aula Subterranea Domina Subdita Subditorum. Das ist: Unteriridische Hofhaltung Ohne Welche Weder die Herren regieren, noch die Unterthanene gehorchen Konnen. Oder.....Funffte Auflage

1736 USD 1,250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,720.00
32 AMPERE, Andre Marie

"Lettre de M. Ampere a M. Le Comte Berthollet.

1814 USD 375.00 - 750.00 USD 3,410.00
44 BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad

Pyrosophia. Succincte atque breviter Iatro-chemicum, rem Metallicum et Chryosopooeian Pervestigans. Opus Medicis, Physicis, Chemicis,

1698 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,100.00
75 BECHER, Johann Joachim

Tripus Hermeticus Fastidicus, Pandens Oracula Chymica, seu I. Laboratorium Portabile cum Methodo vere spagyrice, sc. Juxta exigentium Naturae Laborandi. ...

1689 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,100.00
45 BASIL VALENTINE (Johanne Tholde?)

Chymisches Schriften alle, so viel derer verhanden, anit so Zum Ersten mahl zusammen gedrukt

1677 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,790.00
47 BASIL VALENTINE (Johann Tholde?)

Letztes Testament Dairinen Die Geheime Bucher Vom Grossen Greinder Uralten Weisen und Anderen Verborgenen Gehefmnuissen der Maeur

1667 (1666). USD 375.00 - 750.00 USD 2,790.00
166 BOYLE, Robert

Half-title: New Experiments PhysicoMechanical, Touching the Air, The Second Edition.

1662 USD 2,250.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,790.00
595 KUNCKEL, von Lowenstern, Johann

Utiles Observationes sive Animadversiones De Salibus fixis & volatilibus, Auro et argento potabili, Spiritu mundi, &similibus.

1678 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,790.00
46 BASIL VALENTINE (Johann Tholde)

The Last Will and Testament of Basil Valentine

1671 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 2,108.00
74 BECHER, Johann Joachim (STAHL, G.E.)

Physica Subterranea profundum subterraneorum genesin, e principius

1738 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,108.00
171 BOYLE, Robert

Tracts Written By the Honourable Robert Boyle, containing New Experiments, touching the Relation betwixt Flame and Air.

1672 (possibly 1673) USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,108.00
229 CHARAS, Moyse

Pharmacopee Royale Galenique et Chymique

1676 USD 1,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,108.00
264 CROLL, Oswald

Basilica Chymica Continens. Philosophicam propria laborum experentia confirmatam descriptionem et usum Remediorum Chymicorum Selectissimorum e Luminae Gratiae et Naturae Desumptorum.

nd (1611) USD 1,250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,108.00
48 BASIL VALENTINE (Johann Tholde?)

His Triumphant Chariot of Antimony with Annotations of Theodore Kirkingius, MD, ...

1678 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,984.00
181 BRASAVOLA, Antonio Musa (Ferrariensis i.e. Ferrara)

Examen omnium Syruporum, quorum publicus usus est. Omnia ab autore recognite cum indice

1545 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,984.00
88 BERGMAN, Torbern

Commentatio de Acido Aereo

1775 USD 1,250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,860.00
42 BACON, Roger

The Cure of Old Age, and Preservation of Youth (translated out of the Latin; ...

1683 USD 375.00 - 750.00 USD 1,736.00
1 R. ABRAHAM ELEAZAR (Pseudonym)

Uraltes Chymisches Werck. Welches ehedessen von dem Autore Theils in Lateinischer und Arabischer, theils auch in Chaldaeischer und Syrischer Sprache geschrieben, ...

1735 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,612.00
499 HAUY, Rene Just

Tableau Comparatif des Resultats de la Crystallographie et de l'Analyse Chimique, Relativement a la Classification des Mineraux

1809 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,612.00
596

KURZE UND DEUTLICHE VORSTELLUNG DER EDLEN PROBIERKUNST

1695 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 1,612.00
82 BEGUIN, Jean

Tyrocinium Chymicum

1659 (1660) USD 375.00 - 750.00 USD 1,488.00
390 FREIND, John

Chymical Lectures: In which almost all of the operations of Chemistry are reduced to Their True Principles and the Laws of Nature. Read in the Museum at Oxford, 1704

1712 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,488.00
90 BERGMAN, Torbern Olof

Physical and Chemical Essays; translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman, Knight of the Order of Wasa, Professor of Chemistry at Upsal, &c. &c. &c. ....

1784 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,364.00
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