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

Auction Details

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	USD 31,750.00
202	Spada, Giovanni Giacomo	Corporum lapidefactorum agri Veronensis catalogus quae apud Joannem Jacobum Spadam Gretianae archipresbyterum asservantur.	Verona	1744	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 1,397.00
203	Spallanzani, Lazzaro	Travels in the Two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines.	London	1798	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 889.00
204	Swammerdam, Jan	Historia insectorum generalis, ofte Algemeene Verhandeling van de Bloedeloose Dierkens...	Utrecht	1669	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,540.00
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	Not Sold
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	Not Sold
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	USD 1,016.00
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	Not Sold
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	USD 4,064.00
210	Vincent, Levinus	Wondertooneel der Nature.	Amsterdam	1706-1715	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 25,400.00
211	Vincentius Bellovacensis	Speculum naturale. Part I.	[Strassburg	not after December 1481]	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 7,620.00
212	Werner, Abraham Gottlob	Von den ausserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien.	Leipzig	1774	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
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	USD 635.00
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	USD 508.00
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	USD 1,270.00
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	USD 508.00
217	Werner, Abraham Gottlob	Mineral-System.	Freiberg and Vienna	1817	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 381.00
218	Wulfens, Xavier	Abhandlung vom karnthnerischen Bleyspate.	Wien	1785	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 82,550.00

Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.