• 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
126 Alessio De Sariis

Alessio De Sariis - Code of Laws of the Kingdom of Naples, 1792

Naples 1792 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 482.40
127

Dictionary of the Laws of the Kingdom of Naples drawn from sources of the Constitutions, Chapters, Rites, Arrests, Pragmatics, new Constitutions, Dispatches, and Customs of Naples, 1788

Naples 1788 EUR 220.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
128 Gregorio Grimaldi

Gregorio Grimaldi - History of the Laws and Magistrates of the Kingdom of Naples... which contains the police of the Laws and Magistrates of this Kingdom under the Romans, Goths, Greeks, Lombards, and Normans, 1749

Naples 1749 - 1774. EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
129 Giuseppe Zagnoni

Giuseppe Zagnoni - Directions for travellers in Italy with information on all post offices and their prices, 1771

Bologna 1771 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 670.00
130 Costantino Gatta

Costantino Gatta - Topographical-historical memories of the province of Lucania, 1732

Naples 1732 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 804.00
131 Giovanni Donato Rogadei

Giovanni Donato Rogadei - Of the reception of the knights and other brothers of the illustrious Order of Jerusalem of the venerable language of Italy., 1785

Naples 1785 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 804.00
132

Reasonings about the Inquisition Tribunal, 1747

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
133

Instruction for the Coronation of the King, S.or hecha in the City of Palermo, 1735

EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,608.00
134

Advice given to the King of the Two Sicilies by a minister of that court 1735, 1736

EUR 200.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
135

[Of the Neapolitan Nobility] Table of the characters named in this work - Of Alfonso I King of Naples First Success., 1720

EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 361.80
136

Accusations, Exculpations and Death of Cardinal Don Carlo Carafa

EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 268.00
137 Antonino Castaldo

Antonino Castaldo - Government of the Kingdom of Naples by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna and the benefit that resulted to his Barons in Naples

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
138 Carlin Da Naio

Carlin Da Naio - Various tragic and amorous successes that occurred in Naples and elsewhere to Neapolitans, 1720

EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 737.00
139

Historical and political speech of the Government of the Kingdom of Naples, 1730

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
140 Basurto Francesco

Basurto Francesco - A short story of what happened in the Kingdom of Naples...for the outward journey of May: Gio: Paulo Coraggio at the Court of Emperor Charles V, 1750

EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 268.00
141 Francesco Zazzera

Francesco Zazzera - Newspapers of the Most Illustrious and Excellent Mr. D. Pietro Girone, Duke of Ossuna, in the happy government of this Kingdom of Naples by Franc.co Zazzera, Nap.no of the Academy of the Otiosi, 1750

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
142 Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi

Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi - In mutilum Campani Amphitheater titulum aliasque nonas Campanas inscriptiones, 1727

Neapoli 1727 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 335.00
143 Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi

Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi - Opuscula quibus Orationes, dedicationes, epistolae, inscriptiones, carmina, 1771

Naples 1771 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
144 Pietro Schiano

Pietro Schiano - A modern warning of human health, or a disillusionment of those who live deceived and a light for the blind., 1723

Naples 1723 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 201.00
145 Antonio Vetrani

Antonio Vetrani - Sebeti Vindex, sive Dissertatio de Sebethi antiquitate, appointments, fame, culture, origin, 1757

Naples 1769 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 227.80
146 Charles Philippe Montenault

Charles Philippe Montenault - Histoire des Rois des Deux Siciles de la Maison de France, 1741

Paris 1741 EUR 220.00 - 240.00 EUR 294.80
147 Michele Vargas Mucciacca

Michele Vargas Mucciacca - Of the Ancient Colonies that came to Naples, and the first were the Phoenicians. [On the frontispiece] The Phoenicians, the first inhabitants of Naples, 1764

Naples 1764 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
148 Ludovico Muratori

Ludovico Muratori - On the power of human imagination, 1783

Venice 1783 EUR 60.00 - 150.00 EUR 93.80
149 Ludovico Muratori

Ludovico Muratori - Dissertations on Italian Antiquities, 1766

Monaco 1765-66. EUR 80.00 - 200.00 EUR 107.20
150 Giangiuseppe Origlia

Giangiuseppe Origlia - History of the study of Naples... In which are included the most notable events of it, 1753

Naples 1753-1754. EUR 300.00 - 500.00 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.