• 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
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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.

Finarte: Books, Autographs and Prints, 111225, Rome

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 12, 2025 - November 12, 2025
Page Size: 397 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Dante Alighieri - Cristoforo Landino

Dante Alighieri - Cristoforo Landino (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - Commentary by Christophoro Landino Fiorentino on the Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet, 1481

Florence 1481 EUR 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 Unknown
2 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Convivium, 1490top

Florence 20 September 1490. EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
3 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Comedy, with commentary by Cristoforo Landino, 1484

Venice 1484 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
4 Ubertinus de Casali

Ubertinus de Casali - Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi, 1485top

Venice 12 Mar. 1485 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 Unknown
5 Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus

Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465 top

Subiaco 29 October 1465. EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Unknown
6 Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca - Hoc est preclarum Testamentum Illustri poete Francisci Petrarca, 1498top

Venice [after 1498]. EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
7 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - Dante's terza rime, 1502top

[Lyon after 1502]. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
8 Aristotele - Tommaso d'Aquino

Aristotele - Tommaso d'Aquino - S. Thomae Aquinatis In octo Physicorum Aristotelis libros commentaria - In Libros Aristotelis De Coelo et Mundo Commentaria, 1551

Venetians: apud Iuntas 1551 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 Unknown
9 Matteo Bandello

Matteo Bandello - The first [-fourth] part of Bandello's novels, 1554

Lucca 1544 EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
10 Philippe de Commines

Philippe de Commines - The memoirs of Messire Philippe De Commines, Chevalier, Seigneur d'Argenton, on the principal facts & gestures of Louis Onzieme, 1561

Paris 1561 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
11 Loredan Leonardo, Doge

Venice's commercial policy, an extraordinary document of Renaissance economics

Venice's commercial policy 1509 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
12 Tolomeo, Claudio

Tolomeo, Claudio - The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, With some comments and additions made by Sebastiano, munstero Alamann, With not only the ancient and modern tables usually published, but also new ones added by Messer Iacopo Gastaldo Pia

Venice 1548 [October 1547]. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
13 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri with various annotations and copious adorned copperplates, 1757

Venice 1757-1758. EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
15 Torquato Tasso

One of the most beautiful illustrated books of the 18th century

Venice 1745 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
16 Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico - Principles of new science, 1725top

Naples 1725 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
17 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy, 1809

Milan 1809 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
18 Giuseppe Verdi

Extremely rare autographed musical page from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, with his dedication to the Neapolitan painter Mancinelli

with dedication EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
19 Napoleone Bonaparte

Napoleone Bonaparte - Napoleonic dioramas, 1810

1810 EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
20 Semyon Korsakov

Semyon Korsakov - Opening a new investigation procedure into many machines to compare ideas. with two planches, 1832top

St. Petersburg 1832 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
21 Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin - Borus Godunov, 1831top

St Petersburg: at the Press of the Department of Public Education 1831 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
22 Quinto Orazio Flacco

Quinto Orazio Flacco - Poemata omnia. Centimetrum Marij Seruij. Annotationes Aldi Manutij Romani in Horatium, 1527

Venice September 1527. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
23

Data statute, criminality and civility totius communitatis Riperiae Lacus Baenaci Brixiensis, 1536

Venice 1536 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
24 Elia Capriolo

Elia Capriolo - Twelve books of Brescian histories. In which the origin and antiquity can be seen [..] until the year 1585, 1585

Brescia 1585 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
25

Deed of sale, 1562

1562 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
26 Francesco Mantovano

Francesco Mantovano - Second [-third] book by Lautrecho. Interloqutors Milan Pope Leo as a soul of a spy & the author, 1522

[Milan not before 1522]. EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.