• 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
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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
102 Castiglione, Baldassarre

The best-seller of the sixteenth century, the book that founded Western taste and civilization

Castiglione <br>In Florence 1531; 1531 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
103 Bartolomeo Cavalcanti

Bartolomeo Cavalcanti - Rhetoric, 1559

Venice 1559 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
104 Marco Tullio

Marco Tullio Cicerone - Cicero's Family Epistles, translated by Aldus Manutius, 1598

Venice 1598 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
105 Marco Tullio

Marco Tullio Cicerone - Ciceronis De Philosophia Tomus Primus, 1548

Lyon 1548 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
106 Giovanni Fabrini - Publio Terenzio Afro

Giovanni Fabrini - Publio Terenzio Afro - The Latin Terentio commented in the Tuscan language, 1580

Venice 1580 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
107 Publio Virgilio Marone

Publio Virgilio Marone - The works of Virgil of Mantua, namely the Bucolic, the Georgic, and the Aeneid, commented in the Tuscan vernacular by Giovanni Fabrini from Fighine, by Carolo Malatesta from Rimene, and by Filippo Venuti from Cortona., 1588

Venice 1588 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 Unknown
108 Giovanni Nani

Giovanni Nanni - Fragmenta vetustissimorum autoru[m], 1530

Basel 1530 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
109 Bartolomeo da Rinonico

Bartolomeo da Rinonico - Opus auree & inexplicabilis bonitatis et continentie. Conformitatum scilicet vite blessed Fran. ad vitam D. nostri Iesu Christi, 1513

Milan 1513 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
110 Giovanni D'Avila

Giovanni D'Avila - Spiritual Letters...translated into Spanish in Tuscany, 1593

Florence 1593 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
111

Of the Asolani, 1530

Venice 1530 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
112 Luis de Leon

Luis de Leon - F. Luysii Legionensis Augustiniani diuinorum librorum, 1580

Salamanca 1580 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
113 Tommaso De Vio

Tommaso De Vio - Opuscula omnia [...] in tres distincta tomos, variis quaestionibus [...] recens aucta atque locupletata, 1567

Lyon 1567 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
114 Erodoto di Alicarnasso

Erodoto di Alicarnasso - Herodoti Halicarnassei historiographi Libri novem, 1526

Cologne 1526 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
115 Ficino, Marsilio

Ficino, Marsilio - Against the Plague, 1576

Florence 1576 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 Unknown
116 Ficino, Marsilio

Ficino, Marsilio - The advice of Marsilio Ficino Fiorentino against the pestilence with other additions appropriate to the same disease, 1522

Florence 1522 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
117 Lucius Fenestella

Lucius Fenestella - L. Fenestellae De magistratibus ordinisque Romanorum libellus., 1539

Venice 1539 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
118 Simone Fornari

Simone Fornari - The exposition by m. Simon Fornari da Rheggio on the Orlando Furioso by m. Ludovico Ariosto., 1549

Florence 1549-50. EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
119 Guicciardini, Francesco

Guicciardini, Francesco - More advice and warnings from M. Fr. Guicciardini... regarding Republica and Privata [Memories], 1576

Paris 1576 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 Unknown
120 Guicciardini, Francesco

Guicciardini, Francesco - Propositions, or considerations in matters of state, 1588

220x160 mm <br>Venice 1588 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
121 Herodianus

Herodianus - Herodian's History of the Empire after Mark, translated into Tuscan and diligently printed, 1522

Printed in Florence 1522 on October 10th. EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Unknown
122 Ippocrate

Ippocrate - Hippocratis coi medicorum omnium facile Principis Opera omnia, 1567

Lyon 1567 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
123 Annibale Caro

Annibale Caro - Commentary by Ser Agresto da Ficaruolo on the first ficata of Father Siceo, 1540

1540 EUR 180.00 - 300.00 Unknown
124 Domenichi, Lodovico

Domenichi, Lodovico - Facetie Motti et Jokes of various Gentlemen and private persons, 1593

Fano 1593 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
125 Niccolo Lorenzini

Niccolo Lorenzini - The Contrite Sinner, 1591

Florence 1591 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
126 Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli - All the Works of Nicolo Machiavelli, 1550

Snt [but Geneva 1550, [1610-1620]. EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.