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Sothebys: The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 2

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Auction Name The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 2 Total Sales (USD) 1,014,730.00
Auction Date December 12, 2025 - December 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 478,400.00
Sale Number #N11776 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 711,800.00
Total Lots 193
Sold Lots 159.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 632,400.00
% of Lots Sold 82.38% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 935,800.00
Unsold Lots 34 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 108.43%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
147 Lenz, Johann Georg

Mustertafeln der bis jetzt bekannten Einfachen Mineralien...

 1794 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 114,300.00
218 Wulfens, Xavier

Abhandlung vom karnthnerischen Bleyspate.

1785 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 82,550.00
29 Albertus Magnus

De mineralibus.

 about 1500] USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 44,450.00
201 Sowerby, James

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

 1811, 1817 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 31,750.00
96 Ercker, Lazarus

Contemporary manuscript copy of Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertz unnd Bergkwercks Arten,

 1598 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 27,940.00
123 Hooke, Robert

Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses.

 1667 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 27,940.00
210 Vincent, Levinus

Wondertooneel der Nature.

 1706-1715 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 25,400.00
119 Hebenstreit, Johann Ernst

Museum Richterianum continens Fossilia Animalia Vegetabilia Mar. Illustrata Iconibus et Commentariis... accedit De Gemmis Scalptis Antiquis Liber Singularis.

1743--1748 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 22,860.00
53 Boodt, Anselmus de

Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia.

1609 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 21,590.00
170 Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder)

Historia naturalis. Ed. Hermolaus Barbarus. Rev. Johannes Baptista Palmarius.

 1497 [not before 13 February 1498] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,590.00
43 Beringer, Johann Bartholomaeus Adam, and Georg Ludvig Hueber

Lithographiae wirceburgensis, ducentis lapidum figuratorium a potiori insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornate specimen primum.

1726 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 19,050.00
184 Richter, Christian

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

 1732 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 17,780.00
200 Sowerby, James

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

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

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

 1574 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 16,510.00
131 Kircher, Athanasius

Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus.

 1665 USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,240.00
196 Schreibers, Carl von

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

 1820 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 15,240.00
164 Paracelsus (P.A.T. Bombast von Hohenheim)

Chirurgische Bucher und Schriffeen... sambt einem Appendice... durch Johannem Huserum.

 1605 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,970.00
100 Faujas de Saint Fond, Barthelemy

Recherches sur les volcans eteints du Vivarais et du Velay. Avec un discours sur les volcans brulans, des memoires analytiques sur les Schorls, ...

 1778 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,700.00
98 Euclid

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne.

 1847 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 12,065.00
169 Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder)

Historia naturalis. Ed Philippus Beroaldus.

 1491 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,430.00
44 Berzelius, Jons Jacob

Forsok, att, genom anandandet at den electrokemiska theorien och de kemiska proportionerna, grundlagga ett rent vettenskapligt system for mineralogien.

 1814 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,795.00
179 Rashleigh, Philip

Specimens of British Minerals.

 1797 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,795.00
27 Agricola, Georgius

De ortu & causis subterraneorum Lib. V. De natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra Lib. I. De natura fossilium Lib. X. ...

 1546 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,160.00
132 Kircher, Athanasius

China monumentis, qua sacris qua profanis... illustrata.

 1667 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,160.00
148 Leonardus, Camillus

Speculum lapidum.

 1516 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,160.00
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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