• 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.
  • 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

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
254 Francisco Canes

Francisco Canes - Gramatica Arabigo-Espanola, vulgar, y literal. With an Arabigo-Espanol dictionary, where the most usual voices are placed for a familiar conversation, with the text of the Christian doctrine in the Arabigo language, 1776

Madrid 1775 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
255 Henry Rooke

Henry Rooke - Travels to the Coast of Arabia Felix; and from then by the red-Sea and Egypt, to Europe, 1788

Leghorn [Livorno] 1788 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
256 Francois Petis de La Croix

Francois Petis de La Croix - History of the Sultana of Persia and the Viziers. Turkish Tales, 1785

Venice 1785 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
257 Friedrich Dr. Parrot

Friedrich Dr. Parrot - Reise zum Ararat, 1834

Berlin 1834 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
258

Report du Commissaire du Bureau General des Terres Publiques aux Etats- Unis pour l'annee 1866, 1867

Washington 1867 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
259 Alphonse De Lamartine

Alphonse De Lamartine - History of Turkey, 1854

172x110 mm <br>Paris 1854 EUR 130.00 - 160.00 Unknown
260 Giambattista Spolverini

Giambattista Spolverini - Rice cultivation, 1758

Verona 1758 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
261 Isidoro Alessi

Isidoro Alessi - Historical-critical research on the antiquities of Este, starting from its origins up to the year 1213 of the Christian era., 1776

In Padua 1776 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
262 Vittorio Alfieri

Vittorio Alfieri - The Misogallo Prose and Rhymes, 1799

London (but Florence) 1799 (but 1803-1804). EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
263 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, newly corrected, explained and defended by FBLMC, 1791

Rome 1791 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
264 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1796

Parma 1796 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
265

Almanach Royal pour l'anne'e MDCCXXI, 1721

Paris 1721 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
266 Girolamo Fonda

Girolamo Fonda - Elements of civil and military architecture for use by the Nazarene college, 1764

Rome 1764 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
267 Marco Vitruvio Pollione

Marco Vitruvio Pollione - The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollione with the Italian translation and commentary by Marchese Berardo Galiani, dedicated to His Majesty Charles, King of the Two Sicilies., 1758

Naples 1758 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
268 Enea Arnaldi

Enea Arnaldi - Of the Ancient Basilicas and especially that of Vicenza, 1769

Vicenza 1769 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
269 Lorenzo Barotti

Lorenzo Barotti - Sacred lessons by Abbot Lorenzo Barotti on the books of Tobit, Judith, and Esther, 1785

294x210 mm <br>Parma 1785 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
270 Giuseppe (1686) Bianchini

Giuseppe Bianchini - Enarratio pseudo-Athanasiana in symbolum ante hac unpublished. [...] cum Symmachi papae vita ex vetustissimis membranis nunc integre in lucem emissa, 1732

236x180 mm <br>Verona 1732 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
271 Pier Luigi Castriota

Pier Luigi Castriota - Academic lectures on the performances of the Circus Maximus in Rome, 1782

200x132 mm <br>Naples 1782 EUR 130.00 - 180.00 Unknown
272 Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini - Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, written by himself, 1728

In Cologne (but Naples) 1728 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
273 Gabriel Brothier - Publio Cornelio Tacito

Gabriel Brothier - Publio Cornelio Tacito - C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, Recognovit, Emendavit, Supplementis Explevit, Notis, Dissertationibus, 1771

Paris 1771 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
274 Caio Giulio Cesare

Caio Giulio Cesare - C. Julii Caesaris quae exstant interpretatione et notos illustravit Joannes Goduinus, 1786

Bassano 1786 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
275 Cornelio Nepote

Cornelio Nepote - De vita excellentium Imperatorum., 1754

Paris 1754 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
276 Publio Virgilio Marone

Publio Virgilio Marone - Bucolica, Georgica, and Aeneis, 1798

Paris [1798]. EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
277 Giulio DalCesare

Giulio Cesare Cordara - De tota Graeculorum huius aetatis literature ad Gaium Salmorium sermones quattuor, 1738

[Bologna 1738 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
278 Gatien Courtilz de Sandras

THE WORK THAT INSPIRED DUMAS FOR HIS THREE MUSKETEERS

Cologne 1700 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
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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.
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  • 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