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The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 2
25 November - 12 December 2025 • New York
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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
31 Albertus Magnus | First pocket edition and the final separate sixteenth-century printing of De Mineralibus, Cologne, 1569
32 Albertus Magnus | First Manger edition of Ryff’s enduring popularization of Albertus Magnus, Augsburg, 1571
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
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
46 Beudant, Francois Sulpice | Voyage mineralogique et geologique, en Hongrie, pendant l'annee 1818
47 Biringucci, Vannoccio | First edition of Pirotechnia, the Norman copy
48 Biringucci, Vannoccio | The first French translation of Pirotechnia
49 Biringucci, Vannoccio | Two early editions 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
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...
67 Bulifon, Antonio | Raguaglio istorico dell' incendio del monte Vesuvio
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