• Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, 1st edition, 1844. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Rashleigh (Philip). Specimens of British Minerals, 2 parts in 1, 1797 & 1802. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Murchison (Roderick Impey). The Silurian System, 1st edition, 1839. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on South America, 1st edition, 1846. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Emerson (William). Cyclomathesis: or an Easy Introduction to ... Mathematics, 10 vols. in 9, 1770. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Robinson (Thomas). New observations on the Natural History of This World of Matter, 1696. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Aquinas (Thomas). [Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte, Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Parfit (Cliff). Tesuki Washi. Handmade Papers of Japan, 1981-1988. £400 to £600.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Herbert (Thomas). A Relation of some yeares Travaile... Into Afrique and the greater Asia, 1634. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Lindbergh (Charles A.). The Spirit of St. Louis, 1955, signed. £200 to £300.
  • Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo.
  • Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Presentation Copy of a Whitman "Holy Grail." Whitman, Walt. $10,000-$15,000.
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950

Finarte: NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory, 92925, Rome

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 29, 2025 - September 29, 2025
Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Michele De Jorio

Michele De Jorio - Discourse on the history of the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, to clarify the changes that have occurred from the beginning of their foundation to the present day, and the continuation of the Religion, 1761

Naples 1761 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
102 Alessio De Sariis

Alessio De Sariis - Of the History of the Kingdom of Naples, 1791

Naples 1791-92. EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
103 Galeazzo Di Tarsia

Galeazzo Di Tarsia - The Rhymes of Galeazzo di Tarsia Cosentino, 1758

Naples 1758 EUR 60.00 - 150.00 EUR 134.00
104

Collection of all poems in the Neapolitan language, 1700

Naples 1787-88. EUR 50.00 - 150.00 EUR 120.60
105 Ferdinando Galiani

Ferdinando Galiani - Of the Neapolitan dialect, 1779

Naples 1779 EUR 250.00 - 400.00 EUR 737.00
106 Nunziante Pagano

Nunziante Pagano - The Bbinte rolls of the Valanzone, 1700

Naples 1787 EUR 50.00 - 150.00 EUR 93.80
107 Giancola Sitillo - Publio Marone Virgilio

Giancola Sitillo - Publio Marone Virgilio - Virgil Marone's Aeneid transposed into Neapolitan octave rhyme, 1770

Naples 1770 EUR 50.00 - 150.00 EUR 93.80
108 Lorenzo Giustiniani

Lorenzo Giustiniani - Historical Memoirs of the Legal Writers of the Kingdom of Naples, 1787

Naples 1787 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
109 Pietro D'Onofri

Pietro D'Onofri - Brief information about the facade of the Neapolitan cathedral church, which gives an account of its ancient and impressive door and of the cleaning of both of them which took place in this year 1788., 1789

Naples 1789 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
110 Carlo Dottori

Carlo Dottori - The Donkey. A Mock-Heroic Poem by Iroldo Crotta. With arguments by Mr. Alessandro Zacco and annotations by Mr. Sertorio Orsato., 1796

Padua: 1796 EUR 50.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
111

Memories of the Underground City Discovered at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius, 1747

[Venice 1749]. EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 134.00
112 Marcello de Venuti

Marcello de Venuti - Description of the first discoveries of the ancient city of Herculaneum, 1748

Rome 1748 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 737.00
113 Nicolo Carminio Falcone

Nicolo Carminio Falcone - The entire history of the family, life, miracles, translations, and cult of the glorious martyr St. Gennaro, 1713

Naples 1713 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 375.20
114 Pasquale Falvella

Pasquale Falvella - Response to the Brief History of the dominion of the Holy See in the Sicilies with a brief exposition of the rights of the Sovereign of the Two Sicilies, 1790

Naples 1790 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
115 S. Ferdinando

Ferdinando IV - Re delle Due Sicilie - Origin of the population of S. Leucio and its progress up to the present day, 1789

Naples 1789 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 871.00
116 Carmine Fimiano

Carmine Fimiano - De ortu et progressu Metropoleon Ecclesiasticarum in Regno Neapolitano et Sicul, 1776

Naples 1776 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 EUR 107.20
117 Antonio Silla

Antonio Silla - The Founding of Partenope. Where the true origins, religion, and polity of the ancient city of Naples are explored., 1702

Naples 1769 EUR 300.00 - 320.00 EUR 402.00
118 Giusto Fontanini

Giusto Fontanini - On Italian eloquence, 1737

Venice 1737 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 134.00
119 Giovanni Battista Federici

Giovanni Battista Federici - Of the ancient Dukes and Consuls or Hypati of the city of Gaeta, 1791

Naples 1791 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 402.00
120 Joannes de Alcala et Burgos - Giulio del Pozzo

Joannes de Alcala et Burgos - Giulio del Pozzo - Flores Genealogical Augustae Familiae Juliae Falviae Lascarae - Imperialis Gentis Lascaris Genealogy., 1727

Lyon 1727 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,010.00
121 Francesco Sacco

Francesco Sacco - Geographical-Historical-Physical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Naples, 1795

Naples 1795-1796. EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 375.20
122 Gaetano De Bottis

Gaetano De Bottis - Historical Reasoning Concerning New Volcanoes, 1761

Naples 1761 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 536.00
123 Nicola Partenio Giannettasio

Nicola Partenio Giannettasio - Neapolitan history divided into three tomos, 1713

Neapoli 1713 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 335.00
124 Domenico Giordano

Domenico Giordano - Delectus scriptorum rerum Neapolitanarum, qui populorum, ac civitatum res antiquas aliasque vario tempore gestas memoriae prodiderunt, 1735

Neapoli 1735 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
125 Alessandro Giraffi

Alessandro Giraffi - The Revolutions of Naples described by Mr. Alessandro Giraffi with a full account of every success, and secret and open treatises; newly reprinted and expanded., 1718

Parma 1718 EUR 240.00 - 260.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.
    Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
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  • Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.