• 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

Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Session I, 63A, Firenze

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 07, 2025 - October 07, 2025
Page Size: 103 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51

Rationalis et Experimentalis Phisicae Compendiosus Tractatus. Non datato, ma XVIII secolo.

1700 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 529.00
52

Miscellanea di manoscritti relativi alle famiglie Ballati Nerli, Schinchinelli, Sottovia. Fine XVI-XVIII secolo.

1700 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 403.00
53

Trattato manoscritto di fortificazioni civili e militari. Non datato, ma XVIII secolo.

1700 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 277.00
54

Diploma di grandi dimensioni con miniature e firma autografa di Francesco I di Lorena. Datato 1756, Vienna.

1756 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 580.00
55 Magalotti Lorenzo

Magalotti Lorenzo, Lettere scritte all'Ill.ma Sig.ra March.sa Strozzi dalla [...] penna dell'Ill.mo Sig.r Conte Lorenzo Magalotti Consigliere di Stato di S.A. Reale del Gran Duca di Toscana. Su le Terre odorose d'Europa, e d'America dette volgarmente Bucc

1700 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
56

Memorie spettanti alle macchine aerostatiche. Raccolta di 13 documenti manoscritti e a stampa. Non tutti datati, ma fine XVIII secolo-1806.

1800 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 630.00
57

Monte della citta di Firenze. Datato 1802.

1802 EUR 160.00 - 160.00 EUR 1,638.00
58

Le nozze di Perseo, e d'Andromeda, azione drammatica da cantarsi nel teatro di via della Pergola, [...] dai servitori attuali della sua Real Cappella e da altri varj Professorj. Firenze, Da Anton Maria Albizzini: all'Ins. del Sole. Per Cosimo Maria Pieri,

1738 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 300.00
59

Raccolta di 30 documenti relativi al Teatro La Fenice e ad altri teatri veneziani. Inizio XIX secolo-1946.

1800 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 529.00
60

Tre lettere autografe firmate scritte da Temistocle Solera, Salvadore Cammarano e Antonio Ghislanzoni. Una lettera datata 1847.

1847 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
61

Zufolo Topolino. Anni '30 del XX secolo.

1930 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 252.00
62

Raccolta di firme autografe di cantanti, librettisti e musicisti su libri, insieme ad una locandina di Adriana Lecouvreur in cui canta Enrico Caruso. Datati 1902-anni '90.

1950 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 151.00
63 Marco da Gagliano

Marco da Gagliano, Cantus / Missae, et / Sacrarum / Cantionem, sex / decantandarum / vocibus. / Marci a Gagliano / Florentini ac musices [...]. [Marca tipografica] / Florentiae / Apud Zenobium Pignorium MDCXIV.

1614 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 882.00
64 Muzio Emanuele

Muzio Emanuele, Quattro lettere autografe firmate. Datate 1866-1874.

1870 EUR 280.00 - 280.00 EUR 353.00
65 Novaro Michele

Novaro Michele, Due lettere autografe firmate. Datate 1859 e 1862.

1860 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 3,024.00
66 Ricordi Giulio

Ricordi Giulio, Tre lettere autografe firmate. Datate 1892-1908.

1900 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 EUR 693.00
67 Rossini Gioachino

Rossini Gioachino, Lettera autografa firmata inviata al compositore Andrea Bernardini, direttore della Banda militare nella cittadina di Buti. Datata Firenze 23 settembre 1852.

1852 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 554.00
68 Strepponi Giuseppina

Strepponi Giuseppina, 4 lettere autografe firmate. Datate 1872-1883.

1880 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,260.00
69 Verdi Giuseppe

Verdi Giuseppe, Raccolta di 5 libretti d'opera: Oberto conte di San Bonifacio, Don Carlo, Stiffelio, Alzira, Otello, Falstaff. Datati 1839-1893.

1850 EUR 160.00 - 160.00 EUR 328.00
70 Verdi Giuseppe

Verdi Giuseppe, Lunga lettera autografa firmata, inviata a Giovanni Ricordi. Datata Parigi 13 gennaio 1852.

1852 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 3,780.00
71 Verdi Giuseppe

Verdi Giuseppe, Ricordi di Giuseppe Verdi. 10 albumine. Anni '70-'80 del XIX secolo.

1875 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 EUR 454.00
72 Verdi Giuseppe

Verdi Giuseppe, Lettera autografa firmata inviata a Italo Pizzi. Datata S. Agata 18 novembre 1883.

1883 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,386.00
73 Verdi Giuseppe

Verdi Giuseppe, Lettera autografa firmata inviata a Cesare Vigna, Direttore del manicomio di S. Clemente a Venezia. Datata Genova 9 dicembre 1884.

1884 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,260.00
74

Libro biblico di Esther. Probabile provenienza dall'Italia centrale; tardo XVIII secolo.

Italia 1700 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 1,008.00
75 Rabbi Yeshahyahu Pinto ("Rif").

Rabbi Yeshahyahu Pinto ("Rif")., Sefer Kesef Tzaruf (Libro dell'Argento Puro). Amsterdam, stampatore: Yosef ben Zalman, 1729.

Amsterdam 1729 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 1,008.00
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    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.