• 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
127 Ambrogio Teodosio Macrobio

Ambrogio Teodosio Macrobio - In somnium scipionis libri II, Saturnaliorum libri VII, 1538

Lyon 1538 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
128 Evangelista Marcellino

Evangelista Marcellino - Of the metamorphosis, that is, the transformation of the virtuous, 1598

Florence 1598 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
129 Vincenzo Martelli

Vincenzo Martelli - Rhymes - Letters, 1563

Florence 1563 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
130 Giovanni Mauro

Giovanni Mauro - All of Mauro's terza rima poems, 1538

Venice 1538 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
131 Molza, Francesco Maria - Aretino, Pietro - Berni, Francesco

Molza, Francesco Maria - Aretino, Pietro - Berni, Francesco - The second book of the burlesque works of M. Francesco Berni, Molza, M. Bino, M. Lodovico Martelli, Mattio Franzesi, Aretino, and various authors, 1555

Florence [but Naples 1555, [1723] EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
132 Girolamo Muzio

Girolamo Muzio - Scented Forest, 1572

Venice 1572 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
133 Remigio Nannini

Remigio Nannini - Military Orations. Collected...from all Greek and Latin Historians, Ancient and Modern., 1557

Venice 1557 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
134 Giovanni Nevizzano

Giovanni Nevizzano - Syluae nuptialis libri sex, 1572

172x108 mm <br>Lugduni 1572 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
135 Salernitano Masuccio

Salernitano Masuccio - The fifty short stories by Massuccio Salernitano entitled Nouellino, 1531

Venice 1531 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
136 Erizzo, Sebastiano

Erizzo, Sebastiano - Speech [...] on the medals of the ancients, 1571

210 x 160 mm <br>Vinegia 1571 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
137 Omero

Omero - Homeri Ilias, 1537

Venice 1537 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 Unknown
138 Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca - Petrarch once again reduced to true reading. With a new discourse on the quality of his love: the coronation performed in the Capitoline Hill of Rome & its privilege., 1585

Venice 1585 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
139 Filippo Pigafetta

Filippo Pigafetta - Report of the siege of Paris, 1591

In Rome (In Rome 1591 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
140 Giovanni Pontano

Giovanni Pontano - Charon dialogus, Antonius dialogus, Actius dialogus, Aegidius dialogus and Asinus dialogus, 1520

Florence 1520 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
141 Duns Scotus, Johannes

Duns Scotus, Johannes - Commentaria Doctoris Subtilis Ioannis Scoti in .12. there. Metaphisicae Aristotelis: scripta recollecta & ordinata ab ipsius discipulo Antonio Andreae: cum duplici textu [...], 1503

Venice 6 May 1503. EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
142 Giovita Ravizza

Giovita Ravizza - Iouitae Rapicij Brixiani De numero oratorio libri quinque, 1554

Venice 1554 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
143 Benedetto Ricardini

Benedetto Ricardini - Erudimenta grammares latinae linguae, 1510

Florence 1510 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
144 Ottavio Sammarco

Ottavio Sammarco - The Temple of the Divine Lady Donna Geronima Colonna of Aragon, 1568

Padoa (In Padua: 1568). EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
145 Senofonte

Senofonte - Opera, 1511

[Lyon 2 September 1511]. EUR 200.00 - 240.00 Unknown
146 Speroni, Sperone

Speroni, Sperone - Speeches by Mr. Speron Speroni, doctor and knight of Padua. Newly brought to light., 1596

220x150 mm <br>Venice 1596 EUR 130.00 - 230.00 Unknown
147 Pietro Spino

Pietro Spino - History of the life and deeds of the Most Excellent War Captain Bartolomeo Coglione, 1569

Venice 1569 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
148 Temistio

Temistio - Paraphrasis Themistii peripatetici actualissimi in Aristotelis, 1533

Basel 1533 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
149 Santo Vigilio - Georgius Cassander

Santo Vigilio - Georgius Cassander - Work - Commentarius de duabus in Christo naturis, 1555

Coloniae 1555 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Unknown
150 Pietro Marcello

Pietro Marcello - Lives of the Princes of Venice [...] In which one has knowledge of all the Venetian histories up to the year 1557 With a very copious table of all the memorable things., 1557

Venice 1557 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
151 Marco Antonio Sabellico

Marco Antonio Sabellico - The Venetian Histories, 1544

[Venice] 1544 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 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.