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Sothebys: The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1

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Auction Name The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1 Total Sales (USD) 3,964,940.00
Auction Date December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,442,000.00
Sale Number #N11833 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,565,000.00
Total Lots 24
Sold Lots 22.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,509,000.00
% of Lots Sold 91.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,655,000.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 108.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
19 Pliny

Historia naturalis. Ed: Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.

USD 900,000.00 - 1,200,000.00 USD 1,270,000.00
6 Aristotle

Opera [Greek]. Contains also works of Galenus (II); Philo Judaeus (II); Theophrastus (II-IV); Alexander Aphrodisaeus (IV).

1495--1498 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 660,400.00
7 Aristotle (pseudo-) & Isidorus Hispalensis

Lapidarius. Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur. Physiognomia.

1473 USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 381,000.00
20 Pliny

Historia naturalis [Italian] (Tr: Christophorus Landinus).

1476 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 355,600.00
10 Euclid

Elementa geometriae (Latin, translated by Adelard of Bath, edited and with commentary by Campanus of Novara).

1482 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 177,800.00
24 Smith, William

A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland;

1815 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 139,700.00
11 Gautier d'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques.

1777 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 127,000.00
18 Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich

Osnovy khimii [Principles of Chemistry, in Russian & Cyrillic].

1869--1871 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 114,300.00
14 Hamilton, Sir William

Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London ... Observations sur les volcans des Deux Siciles.

1776 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 107,950.00
21 (Probier Buchlein)

Probir Buchlin, auff Goldt, Silber, alle Ertz und Metall. Mit vil kostbarlichen Alchimeijschen Kunsten. Sampt allem zugehor und Instrumenten darzu dienlich. Die Bergknamen, fur die newen angonde Bergkleut.

1530 USD 22,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 95,250.00
9 Diderot, Denis and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, editors

Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des science, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres (volumes I-XVII).

1761-1780 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 88,900.00
23 Savery, Thomas

The Miner's Friend; or an Engine to Raise Water by Fire, Described.

1702 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 82,550.00
2 Agricola, Georgius

De re metallica libri XII. Qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur,

1556 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 60,960.00
8 Darwin, Charles

The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Being the First Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836.

1842 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 53,340.00
12 Gautier D'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. Partie I. Regne Mineral.

1781 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 48,260.00
13 Gautier d'Agoty

Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. Partie I. Regne Mineral [all published].

1781 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 40,640.00
15 Hooke, Robert

Micrographia; or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies.

1665 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 40,640.00
1 Agricola, Georgius

Bermannus, sive de re metallica.

1530 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 35,560.00
3 Agricola, Georgius

De re metallica libri XII. Qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia. ... Eivsdem De animantibus svbterraneis liber

1561 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,400.00
16 Imperato, Ferrante

Dell'historia naturale libri xxvii.

1599 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 22,860.00
22 Rumpf, Georg Eberhard

D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, behelzende eene Beschryvinge van... Schaalvisschen.

1705 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,320.00
4 Albertus Magnus

Natvralia Alberti Magni darinn durch sechsz kurze Buchlin viel Haimligkaiten de Natur beschrieben. Von Weibern und geburten de Kinder Auch lebendiger abcontrafactur ettlicher Kreuter ...

1548 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,510.00
  • 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