Sothebys: The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 2, N11776, New York

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Auction Date
December 12, 2025 - December 12, 2025
Page Size: 193 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Faujas de Saint Fond, Barthelemy

Essai de geologie ou memoires pour server a l'histoire naturelle du globe.

Paris 1805, 1809 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
102 Ferber, Johann Jakob

Four eighteenth-century works in two volumes (three bound in a contemporary sammelband) on the author's geological travels through Italy, being:

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
103 [Ferber, Johann Jakob, editor]

Ist es vorteilhafter, die silberhaltigen Erze und Schmelzhuttenprodukte anzuquicken, als sie zu schmelzen? ...

Leipzig and Vienna 1787 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,985.00
104 Fersman, Aleksandr Evgenievich

Kamni Rossii [Precious and Colored Stones of Russia].

Petrograd; Leningrad 1920 [i.e.1922]; 1925 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
105 Gamboa, Francisco Javier

Comentarios a las ordenanzas de minas...

Madrid 1761 USD 4,200.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
106 Gatterer, Christoph Wilhelm Jakob

Verzeichnis der vornehmsten Schriftsteller uber alle Theile des Bergwesens. Erstes Stuck I-Zweytes Stuck].

Gottingen 1787-862 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 635.00
107 Gellert, Christlieb Ehregott

Anfangsgrunde zur Probierkunst, als der zweyte Theil der practischen Metallurgischen Chimie, worinnen verschiedene neue Arte zuverlassig zu probieren.

Leipzig 1755 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,080.00
108 Gersaint, Edme-Francois

Two works bound in one volume:

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 635.00
109 Gesner, Conrad

De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot [Io. Kentmani, Georgji Fabricj, Severini, Goebelij, ...

Zurich 1565 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,255.00
110 Glauber, Johann Rudolph

A Description of new Philosophical Furnaces, or a new Art of Distilling, divided into five parts.

London 1651-52 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 889.00
111 Glauber, Johann Rudolf

The Works... containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy... translated into English... by Christopher Packe.

London 1689 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 762.00
112 Gobet, Nicolas

Les anciens mineralogistes du royaume de France.

Paris 1779 USD 2,600.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
113 [Great Exhibition]

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. [with:] Reports of the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into Which the Exhibition was Divided.

London 1851, 1852 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,350.00
114 Grew, Nehemiah

Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or a catalogue description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College...

London 1681 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,175.00
115 Grew, Nehemiah

Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or a catalogue description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College...

London 1681 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,032.00
116 Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig

Untersuchungen uber die Formen der leblosen Natur. Erster Band [all published].

Gottingen 1821 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
117 Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig

Untersuchungen uber die Formen der leblosen Natur.

Gottingen 1821 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
118 Hauy, Rene Just

Traite de mineralogie.

Paris 1801 USD 8,500.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,890.00
119 Hebenstreit, Johann Ernst

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

Leipzig 1743--1748 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 22,860.00
120 Henkel, Johann Friedrich

Henkelivus in Mineralogia redivivus, das ist; Hencklisch aufrichtiger und grundlicher Unterricht von der Mineralogie, oder Wissenschaft von Wassern, Erdsaften, Salzen, Erden, Steinen und Ertzen.

Dresden 1747 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,175.00
121 Hill, John

A General Natural History: or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals of the Different Parts of the World.

London 1748-1752 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
122 Hollunder, Christian Furchtegott

Berg- und huttenmannischer Wegweiser durch Ober-Schlesien.

Berlin 1828 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,651.00
123 Hooke, Robert

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

London 1667 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 27,940.00
124 Juncker, Johann

Conspectus chemiae theoretico-practicae

in forma tabularum repraesentatus, in quibus physica, praesertim subterranea, et corporum naturalium principia habitius inter se, proprietates, vires et usus itemque praecipua chemiae pharmaceuticae et mechanica fundamenta dogmatibus Becheri et Stahli pot 1730--1738 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 508.00
125 Kaempfer, Engelbert

De Beschryving van Japan, behelsende een Verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen Staat en Regeering van dat Ryk, van deszelfs Tempels, ...

Amsterdam 1733 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,175.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000