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John McInnis Auctioneers: Private Alchemy and Chemistry Library - Day 2

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Auction Name Private Alchemy and Chemistry Library - Day 2 Total Sales (USD) 131,657.00
Auction Date December 14, 2024 - December 14, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 136,748.00
Sale Number #352099 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 273,630.00
Total Lots 646
Sold Lots 567 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 144,369.00
% of Lots Sold 87.77% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 288,735.00
Unsold Lots 79 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 45.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
761 MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich

Oznovy Khimii (OSNOVY KhIMII) 2nd Russian Edition

 1872-3 USD 3,750.00 - 7,500.00 USD 9,920.00
666 LIBAVIUS, Andreas

Syntagmatis selectorum undiquaque et perspicue traditorum Alchymiae Arcanorum, tomus primus...

 1615 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 8,680.00
698 [LIMOJON DE SAINT DISDIER (Alexandre Toussaint de)]

The Hermetical Triumph; of The Victorious Philosophical Stone. A Treatise more compleat and more intelligible than any has been yet, concerning The Hermetical Magistry.

1723 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,440.00
762 MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich

Oznovy Khimii (OSNOVY KhIMII) 3rd Russian Edition

 1877 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,650.00
764 MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich

Oznovy Khimii (OSNOVY KhIMII), 5th Russian Edition

 1889 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,720.00
931 PORTA, Giambattista della (Jo. Bapt.)

De Destillatione Lib. IX. Quibus certa methodo, multipliciq; artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuiusliber mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfecte docetur

 1608 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,410.00
1082 STAHL, Georg Ernst

Fundamentae Chymicus Dogmaticae & Experimentalis & Quidem Tum Communioris Physicae Mechanicae Tum Sublimoris Sic Dictae Hermeticae Atque Alchymiae

 1723 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,790.00
728 MAIER, Michael

Viatorium, Hoc Est, Demontibus Planetarum Septem Seu Metallorum

 1651 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,480.00
763 MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich

Oznovy Khimii (OSNOVY KhIMII) 4th Russian Edition

 1881-2 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,232.00
1211 YOUMANS, Edward L.

Chemical Atlas; or The Chemistry of Familiar Objects: Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagram, ...

 1857 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,232.00
847 PARACELSUS (Theophrastus Bombasticus Von Hohenheim)

Archidoxa...Zehen Bucher Item. I. De Tinctura Physicorum. II. Tesaurus Tesaurum. III. Manuale. IIII.

1574 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,108.00
925 POMET, Pierre

A Compleat History of Drugs, Written in French by Monsieur Pomet, Chief Druggist to the French King, ...

 1712 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 2,108.00
766B MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich

Organicheskaja Khimia

 1863 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,984.00
817 NERI, Antonio

L'Arte Vetraria distinta Sette del R.P. Antonio Neri Fiorentino: ...

 1612 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 1,984.00
863 PASCAL (Blaise)

Traitez de L'Equilibre Des Liqueurs, Et De La Pesanteur De La Masse De L'Air

 1663 USD 2,250.00 - 4,500.00 USD 1,984.00
818 NERI, Ant. (Antonio)

De Arte Vitraria Libri Septem, & in eosdem Christoph. Merretti...Observationes & Notae.

1668 USD 425.00 - 850.00 USD 1,860.00
633 LE FEVRE, Nicolas (Nicasius Le Febure)

A Compleat Body of Chymistry; wherein is contained whatsoever is necessary for the attaining to the Curious Knowledge of this Art;

1670 USD 1,250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,488.00
1183 WEBSTER, John

Metallographia or an history of metals wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging

 1671 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,488.00
819 NERI, Antonio, MERRETT, Christopher, KUNCKEL, Johann, et al

Art de la Verrerie, de Neri, Merret et Kunckel.

1752 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,364.00
877 PAULING, Linus

General Chemistry. An Introduction to Descriptive Chemistry and Modern Chemical Theory

 1947 USD 375.00 - 750.00 USD 1,364.00
1000 RULAND, Martin (The Elder)

Lexicon alchemiae; sive, Dictionarium alchemisticum, cum obscuriorum verborum, & rerum hermeticarum, tum Theophrast-Paracelsicarum phrasium, ...

 1612 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,364.00
1169 VOLTA, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio

Lettere del Signor Don Alessandro Volta...sull'Aria Inflammabile Nativa delle Paludi

 1777 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,240.00
926 POMET, Pierre

Histoire Generale des Drogues, traitant des Plantes, des Animaux & des Mineraux, ...

 1694 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,116.00
932 PORTA, Johann Baptista

Magiae Naturalis, sive de Miraculis Rerum Naturalium Libri IIII

 1561 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,116.00
639 LEMERY, Nicholas

A Course of Chymistry, containing an easie Method of Preparing those Chymical Medicins which are used in Physick.

1698 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 992.00
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
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    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
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    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Available for Immediate Purchase
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    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
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    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
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