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Sothebys: The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1

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Auction Name The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1 Total Sales (USD) 3,964,940.00
Auction Date December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,442,000.00
Sale Number #N11833 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,565,000.00
Total Lots 24
Sold Lots 22.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,509,000.00
% of Lots Sold 91.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,655,000.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 108.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
19 Pliny

Historia naturalis. Ed: Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.

USD 900,000.00 - 1,200,000.00 USD 1,270,000.00
6 Aristotle

Opera [Greek]. Contains also works of Galenus (II); Philo Judaeus (II); Theophrastus (II-IV); Alexander Aphrodisaeus (IV).

1495--1498 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 660,400.00
7 Aristotle (pseudo-) & Isidorus Hispalensis

Lapidarius. Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur. Physiognomia.

1473 USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 381,000.00
20 Pliny

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

1476 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 355,600.00
10 Euclid

Elementa geometriae (Latin, translated by Adelard of Bath, edited and with commentary by Campanus of Novara).

1482 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 177,800.00
24 Smith, William

A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland;

1815 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 139,700.00
11 Gautier d'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques.

1777 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 127,000.00
18 Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich

Osnovy khimii [Principles of Chemistry, in Russian & Cyrillic].

1869--1871 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 114,300.00
14 Hamilton, Sir William

Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London ... Observations sur les volcans des Deux Siciles.

1776 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 107,950.00
21 (Probier Buchlein)

Probir Buchlin, auff Goldt, Silber, alle Ertz und Metall. Mit vil kostbarlichen Alchimeijschen Kunsten. Sampt allem zugehor und Instrumenten darzu dienlich. Die Bergknamen, fur die newen angonde Bergkleut.

1530 USD 22,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 95,250.00
9 Diderot, Denis and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, editors

Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des science, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres (volumes I-XVII).

1761-1780 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 88,900.00
23 Savery, Thomas

The Miner's Friend; or an Engine to Raise Water by Fire, Described.

1702 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 82,550.00
2 Agricola, Georgius

De re metallica libri XII. Qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur,

1556 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 60,960.00
8 Darwin, Charles

The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Being the First Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836.

1842 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 53,340.00
12 Gautier D'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. Partie I. Regne Mineral.

1781 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 48,260.00
13 Gautier d'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. Partie I. Regne Mineral [all published].

1781 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 40,640.00
15 Hooke, Robert

Micrographia; or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies.

1665 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 40,640.00
1 Agricola, Georgius

Bermannus, sive de re metallica.

1530 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 35,560.00
3 Agricola, Georgius

De re metallica libri XII. Qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia. ... Eivsdem De animantibus svbterraneis liber

1561 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,400.00
16 Imperato, Ferrante

Dell'historia naturale libri xxvii.

1599 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 22,860.00
22 Rumpf, Georg Eberhard

D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, behelzende eene Beschryvinge van... Schaalvisschen.

1705 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,320.00
4 Albertus Magnus

Natvralia Alberti Magni darinn durch sechsz kurze Buchlin viel Haimligkaiten de Natur beschrieben. Von Weibern und geburten de Kinder Auch lebendiger abcontrafactur ettlicher Kreuter ...

1548 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,510.00
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