• 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
  • University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 308 - Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to "Just Like a Woman" With Jeff Rosen & JSA Authentication
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 455 - Isaac Newton Admiration For Judaism & Moral Continuity With Christianity! 350+ Words in his Hand - Extraordinary Content!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 219 - 371g Moon Meteorite, Incredible Find - Laâyoune 002
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 448 - Scarce Einstein AM on Unified Field Theory, 180+ Words & 11 Equations in His Hand! From His Published Article, "A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation"
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 159 - Woodrow Wilson Baseball Signed for WWI Red Cross Fundraiser, Ex. Forbes & PSA Authentic - Finest Known!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 84 - Lee Harvey Oswald ALS to Brother, Trying Desperately to Get out of Russia! Highly Important
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 152 - George Washington Signed Discharge for MA Solider Whose Regiment Was at Bunker Hill!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 88 - Abraham Lincoln Fully Signed Military Appointment for Mexican War Vet & Respected Cavalryman
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 188 - Apollo XI Astronauts & Their Wives Signed Photo, Plus Crew Signed Cover, From Apollo XI Presidential Goodwill Tour Era, Pre-Cert Zarelli
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 265 - Martin Luther King, Jr. TLS Re: "Stride Toward Freedom" Film Rights To Literary Agent Marie Rodell
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 324 - John Lennon Signed Apple Records Check, PSA GEM MT 10! Possibly Finest Known
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 79 - John & Jacqueline Kennedy Signed WH 1963 Christmas Gift Inscribed to Close Friend Joan Braden, PSA Authentic
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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.

Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Session IV, 63D, Firenze

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025
Page Size: 132 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
441 Barozzi Giacomo (detto il Vignola)

Barozzi Giacomo (detto il Vignola), Il Vignola illustrato proposto da Giambattista Spampani, e Carlo Antonini... In Roma: nella stamperia di Marco Pagliarini, 1770.

Roma 1770 EUR 160.00 - 160.00 EUR 328.00
442 Bartoli Daniello

Bartoli Daniello, Missione al Gran Mogor... In Bologna: per l'erede del Benacci, [dopo il 1672].

Bologna 1672 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 151.00
443 Bartolomeo da San Concordio

Bartolomeo da San Concordio, Ammaestramenti degli antichi... In Firenze: All'insegna della Stella, 1661.

Firenze 1661 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 277.00
444 Basilio: della Concezione (frate)

Basilio: della Concezione (frate), Ornitogonia ovvero la cova de' Canarj per facilitarne la moltiplicazione, educarli, e mantenerli sani. In Roma: 1794.

Roma 1794 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 252.00
445 Baudi di Vesme Carlo

Baudi di Vesme Carlo, Codice diplomatico di Villa di chiesa in Sardigna. Torino: Stamperia Reale di G. B. Paravia e Comp., 1877.

Torino 1877 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 EUR 428.00
446 Bellet Isaac

Bellet Isaac, Lettere sopra la forza dell'immaginazione delle donne incinte... Venezia: Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1751.

Venezia 1751 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 162.00
447 Belzoni Giovanni Battista

Belzoni Giovanni Battista, Voyages en Egypte et en Nubie... Tomo I [-II]. Paris: a la Librairie francaise et etrangere de Galignani..., 1821.

Paris 1821 EUR 160.00 - 160.00 EUR 504.00
448 Bembo Pietro

Bembo Pietro, Della Historia vinitiana... In Vinegia: s.e., 1552. (Al colophon:) In Vinegia: appresso Gualtero Scotto, 1552.

Venezia 1552 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 302.00
449 Bembo Pietro

Bembo Pietro, Rime di tre de' piu illustri poeti dell'eta nostra... In Vinetia: [s.d.i.], 1567. (Al colophon:) In Venetia: appresso Francesco Portonari, 1567.

Venezia 1567 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 302.00
450 Benamati Giovanni Battista

Benamati Giovanni Battista, Istoria della citta' di Guastalla... In Parma: per Mario Vigna, 1674.

Parma 1674 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 756.00
451 Bertelli Paolo

Bertelli Paolo, Trattato di scherma ossia modo di maneggiare la spada e la sciabla di Paolo Bertelli. Bologna: per le stampe di Ulisse Ramponi, 1800.

Bologna 1800 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 756.00
452 Bianchi Noe

Bianchi Noe, Viaggio da Venezia al S. Sepolcro, ed al Monte Sinai, col disegno delle Citta, Castelli, Ville, Chiese, Monasteri, Isole, Porti, e Fiumi, che fin la si ritrovano... In Treviso: per Antonio Paluello, 1791.

Treviso 1791 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
453 Bianchini Francesco

Bianchini Francesco, De tribus generibus instrumentorum musicae veterum organicae dissertatio... Romae: ex typographia Bernabo & Lazzarini, 1742.

Roma 1742 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 403.00
454 Biffi Lorenzo

Biffi Lorenzo, In funere admodum R. P. M. Thomae Caraphae ordinis praedicatorum oratio publice habita Neapoli in aedibus sacris divi Dominici eiusdem ordinis [...] vii. idus sextileis 1614. Neapoli: ex typographia Io. Dominici Roncalioli, 1614.

Napoli 1614 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 277.00
455 Binyon Laurence

Binyon Laurence, Primavera: Poems, by four Authors. Oxford: published by B.H. Blackwell, 1890.

Oxford 1890 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
456 Bizzarri Pietro

Bizzarri Pietro, Senatus populique Genuensis rerum domi forisque gestarum historiae atque annales... Antuerpiae: ex officina Christophori Plantini archtypographi regij, 1579.

Anversa 1579 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 EUR 328.00
457 Boccaccio Giovanni

Boccaccio Giovanni, La Theseide [...] Innamoramento piaceuole, & honesto di due giouani thebani. In Lucca, appresso Vincenzo Busdraghi ad istantia di Giulio Guidoboni, 1579.

Lucca 1579 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 454.00
458 Bodenehr Gabriel

Bodenehr Gabriel, Atlas curieux oder Neuer und compendieuser Atlas... Augspurg: Herausgegeben und Verlegt von Gabriel Bodenehr, s.d. [ca. 1715].

Augsburg 1715 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,638.00
459 Boehme Johann

Boehme Johann, Gli costumi, gli usi et l'usanze... In Venetia: Appresso P. Gironimo Giglio e compagni, 1558.

Venezia 1558 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 302.00
460 Boethius Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus

Boethius Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, Della consolazione della filosofia. Tradotto di lingua latina, in volgare fiorentino, da Benedetto Varchi. In Firenze: [Lorenzo Torrentino], 1551.

Firenze 1551 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 529.00
461 Bonanni Filippo

Bonanni Filippo, [Gabinetto Armonico pieno d'Istromenti Sonori, indicati e spiegati]. [Roma: Stamperia di Giorgio Placho, 1722].

Roma 1722 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
462 Boschini Marco

Boschini Marco, La carta del navegar pitoresco... In Venetia: Per li Baba, 1660.

Venezia 1660 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,016.00
463 Boschini Marco

Boschini Marco, Le ricche minere della pittura veneziana... In Venezia: appresso Francesco Nicolini, 1674.

Venezia 1674 EUR 260.00 - 260.00 EUR 504.00
464 Bourbon Jeanne Baptiste de

Bourbon Jeanne Baptiste de, Chant des offices propres de l'Ordre de Font-Eurauld... A Paris: Chez Lovys de Hevoveville, 1647.

Paris 1647 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 EUR 189.00
465 Bramicelli Guglielmo

Bramicelli Guglielmo, Inni che si cantano tutto l'anno alle hore canoniche... In Venetia: appresso Giorgio Angelieri, 1597.

Venezia 1597 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,197.00
  • 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
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  • 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.