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
201 Sowerby, James

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

London 1811, 1817 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
202 Spada, Giovanni Giacomo

Corporum lapidefactorum agri Veronensis catalogus quae apud Joannem Jacobum Spadam Gretianae archipresbyterum asservantur.

Verona 1744 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
203 Spallanzani, Lazzaro

Travels in the Two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines.

London 1798 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
204 Swammerdam, Jan

Historia insectorum generalis, ofte Algemeene Verhandeling van de Bloedeloose Dierkens...

Utrecht 1669 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
205 Tavernier, Jean Baptiste

Les Six Voyages... en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes.

Paris 1676 and 1677 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
206 Tavernier, Jean Baptiste

The Six Voyages... through Turkey into Persia and the East Indies for the space of Forty Years... to which is added the Description of the Seraglio [bound with:] A Collection of Several Relations & Treatises.

London 1678, 1680 USD 4,200.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
207 Jean Baptiste Tavernier

Les Six Voyages... en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes.

[Amsterdam:] suivant la copie imprimee a Paris 1679 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
208 Tavernier, Jean Baptiste

Beschreibung der Sechs Reisen...In Turckey, Persien und Indien innerhalb viertzig Jahren...

Geneva 1681 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
209 Trebra, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von

Observations de M. de Trebra, sur l'interieur des montagnes, precedees d'un Plan d'une histoire generale de la Mineralogie par M. de Veltheim;

Paris 1787 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
210 Vincent, Levinus

Wondertooneel der Nature.

Amsterdam 1706-1715 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
211 Vincentius Bellovacensis

Speculum naturale. Part I.

[Strassburg not after December 1481] USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
212 Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Von den ausserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien.

Leipzig 1774 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
213 Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Neue Theorie von der Entstehung der Gange, mit Anwendung auf den Bergbau.

Freiberg 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
214 Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Neue Theorie von der Entstehung der Gange, mit Anwendung auf den Bergbau.

Freiberg 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
215 [Werner, Abraham Gottlob] --- Thomas Weaver, trans.

A Treatise on the External Characters of Fossils, translated from the German ... by Thomas Weaver.

Dublin 1805 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
216 [Werner, Abraham Gottlob]

Catalogo di una Collezione di Minerali disposta secondo il sistema del celebre Werner, ed acquistata per uso de'licei del regno d'Italia a Freyburg dalla direzione generale di pubblica istruzione.

Milan 1813 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
217 Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Mineral-System.

Freiberg and Vienna 1817 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
218 Wulfens, Xavier

Abhandlung vom karnthnerischen Bleyspate.

Wien 1785 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
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