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

Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia.

1609 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 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
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
131 Kircher, Athanasius

Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus.

 1665 USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 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
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