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The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 2
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25. Achard, Franz Carl | Bestimmung der Bestandtheile einiger Edelsteine, first and only German edition

26. Agricola, Georgius | de mensuris, from the library of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Basel, 1533

27. Agricola, Georgius | Two works bound together in contemporary half pigskin, including "The first handbook of modern systematic mineralogy," Basel, 1546, 1550

28. Agricola, Georgius | The only collected edition of Agricola to include De re metallica, Basel, 1657

29. Albertus Magnus | An incunable edition of De mineralibus, not in Goff or BMC, Cologne, about 1500

30. Albertus Magnus & Thomas Aquinas | Four scarce post-incunable editions of Albert the Great and his greatest pupil, Venice, 1517–1519, 1517, 1507, 1516

33. Albinus, Petrus | Meisznische Land und Berg-Chronica

34. Almedigen, Harrsch — Ferdinand Ludwig | First edition of a little-known work on meteorology

35. (Amber) — Philipp Jacob Hartmann | The “best and most thorough work yet to appear on amber” in its time

36. Bacmeister, Jean | Essai sur la bibliotheque et le cabinet de curiosites et d'histoire naturelle de l'Academie des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg

37. Barba, Alvaro Alonso | The first book of the art of metalls

38. Barba, Alvaro Alonso | Berg-Buchlein darinnen von der Metallen und Mineralien Generalia und Ursprung...

39. Barba, Alvaro Alonso | Collected edition of important treatises on mini metallurgy
![Barba, Alvaro Alonso | [Arte de los metales]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9095adf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1221x2000+0+0/resize/150x246!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F2d%2F5c%2Fdbf60b4b41bd8fd3f93e5d6a61f3%2Fn11776-d972f-t2-02.jpg)
40. Barba, Alvaro Alonso | [Arte de los metales]

41. Baumeister, Joseph Edler von | Die Welt in Bildern vorzuglich zum Vergnugen und Unterricht der Jugend

42. Becher, Johann Joachim | Two works in one volume

43. Beringer, Johann Bartholomaeus Adam, and Georg Ludvig Hueber | Lithographiae wirceburgensis

44. Berzelius, Jons Jacob | An exceptionally rare copy of this chemical treatise

45. Besson, Jacques, Dauphinois | One of the first French works on machines and mechanical engineering

47. Biringucci, Vannoccio | First edition of Pirotechnia, the Norman copy

48. Biringucci, Vannoccio | The first French translation of Pirotechnia

50. Boerhaave, Herman | Institutiones et experimenta chemiae, the 1724 unauthorized edition

51. Boerhaave, Herman | Elements of chemistry, London, 1735

52. Boerhaave, Herman | A new method of chemistry, London, 1741

53. Boodt, Anselmus de | First edition of Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, an important seventeenth-century work on minerals and gems

54. Boodt, Anselmus de — Adrian Toll, ed. | Second edition, revised and enlarged, of Gemmarum et Lapidium

55. Boodt, Anselmus de | First French translation of Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia
![[Bourget, Louis and Pierre Cartier] | First edition of this geological treatise on fossils](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/75aa2cf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1536x2000+0+0/resize/150x195!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Faa%2F7d%2F346a1db84b54bfe3b2d3584cff2b%2Fn11776-d96xd-t3-02.jpg)
56. [Bourget, Louis and Pierre Cartier] | First edition of this geological treatise on fossils

57. Bradley, Richard | First edition of A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature

58. Brander, Gustavus — Daniel Solander | First edition catalog of fossil shells in the Brander collection

59. Breislak, Scipione | Physische und Lithologische Reisen...

60. Breislak, Scipio | Altas geologique, with engravings showing basalt formations across Europe

61. Brückmann, Franz Ernst | Magnalia Dei in Locis Subterraneis

62. Brückmann, Franz Ernst | Epistola itineraria

63. Brunfels, Otto | Catalogus illustrium medicorum, one of the earliest medical bibliographies

64. Brunschwig, (Hieronymus) — (Bartholomaeus) Vogter | Three works on distillation and medicine

65. Buch, Leopold von | Physicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln, first edition, the Norman copy

66. Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc | Les Epoques de la nature...

68. Burnet, Thomas | First edition in English of Burnet’s visionary cosmogenisis

69. Burtin, François-Xavier | Oryctographie de Bruxelles ou description des fossiles...

70. Bytemeister, Henrici Johannis | Second, enlarged edition of Bytemeister’s illustrated catalogue of scientific and natural curiosities

71. Caesius, Bernardus and Francisco Mateo Fernandez Bejarano | Two first editions related to mineralogy

72. Cancrin, Franz Ludwig von | Erste Gründe der Berg und Salzwerkskunde

73. Canepari, Pietro Marie | The first work on the preparation of writing ink

75. (Catalog) | A catalogue of the Library of the Chemical Society
![[Catalog — Natural History] | Catalogue d’un Très Beau Cabinet d’Histoire Naturelle](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/950265f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4096x4600+0+0/resize/150x168!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F4f%2Ffd%2F3f836df94b92a4aa122b575f38b7%2Fn11776-dgcfy-t3-04.jpg)
76. [Catalog — Natural History] | Catalogue d’un Très Beau Cabinet d’Histoire Naturelle

77. (Catalog — Delalain) | A rare 1769 auction catalog of an extensive mineral collection, with manuscript prices

80. Charpentier, Jean de | The Norman copy of Essai sur les glaciers...