The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1
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1 Agricola, Georgius | First edition of Agricola’s first book on mining, Basel, 1530
2 Agricola, Georgius | A "book that has earned its place in history as a masteriece of Renaissance technical writing and technical illustration," Basel, 1556
3 Agricola, Georgius | The fine Freilich copy of the second Latin edition of De re metallica, Basil, 1561
4 Albertus Magnus | A very rare popular vernacular compilation of the works, Strasbourg, 1548
5 Arfe Y Villafañe, Juan de | Spain’s official handbook on precious metals employed in the American colonies
6 Aristotle | The fine Doheny set of Aldo's editio princeps, Venice, 1495–1498
7 Aristotle (pseudo-) & Isidorus Hispalensis | A remarkable Sammelband featuring the first printed lapidary, Merseburg, 1473; and the first printed map, Augsburg, 1472
8 Darwin, Charles | A fine set of the three volumes of Geology of the Beagle, London 1842–1846
9 Diderot, Denis and Jean Le Rond D’Alembert, editors | The Encyclopédie; one of the most ambitious intellectual undertakings of the Enlightenment
10 Euclid | The Norman copy of one of the most influential, enduring, and beautiful books in the history of science, Venice, 1482
11 Gautier d'Agoty | Unique copy, with distinguished provenance, of his earliest color-printed plates of minerals, Paris 1777
12 Gautier D'Agoty | Histoire naturelle … Règne Minéral, the rare folio issue, in original parts, Paris, 1781
13 Gautier d'Agoty | First edition of Histoire Naturelle … Règne Minéral, Paris, 1781
14 Hamilton, Sir William | The Botfield copy of the spectacular Campi Phlegræi, London, 1776–1779
15 Hooke, Robert | Micrographia; or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies
16 Imperato, Ferrante | First edition of the first museological catalogue to encompass the entire natural world
17 Leupold, Jacob [and Joachim Ernst Scheffler] | A virtually complete set of Leupold’s important works on mechanics and engineering
18 Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich | First edition of Osnovy khimii [Principles of Chemistry], with two early versions of the periodic table, St. Petersburg, 1869–1871
19 Pliny | Historia naturalis, the Macclesfield copy, printed on vellum, Rome: Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1470
20 Pliny | The first edition in Italian of the Natural History, Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476
21 (Probier Büchlein) | "Of the utmost rarity" (Duveen)
22 Rumpf, Georg Eberhard | A fine copy of the rare first edition of D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer
23 Savery, Thomas | First edition of The Miner’s Friend..., The Hanbury-Norman-Freilich copy
24 Smith, William | "The Map that Changed the World": A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, 1815