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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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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.