• 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
152 Vettori, Pietro - Demetrio Falereo

Vettori, Pietro - Demetrio Falereo - Commentarii in librum Demetrii Phalerei De elocutione positis ante singulas declarationes Graecis vocibus auctoris: ijsdemque ad verbum Latine expressis, 1594

Florence 1594 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 Unknown
153 Vettori, Pietro

Vettori, Pietro - Commentarii in VIII Libros Aristotelis de optimo statu civitatis, 1576

Florence 1576 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
154 Vettori, Pietro

Vettori, Pietro - Variarum Lectionum Books XXXVIII. Ad Alexandrum Farnesium [...] Books XXV. Ad Ferdinandum Medicem [...] Books XIII., 1582

Florence 1582 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
155 Hieronymus Rott von Schreckenstein

Hieronymus Rott von Schreckenstein - De veritate, firmamento et stabilitate donationis constantiniane, ad Sanctissimum Pium III., 1560

Dillingen nd [but c. 1560]. EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
156 AA.VV.

AA.VV. - Augustus chorus musarum in graduation Dominici Vrsucci, 1670

194x144 mm <br>Perusiae 1670 EUR 350.00 - 550.00 Unknown
157 Scamozzi, Vincenzo

Scamozzi, Vincenzo - On the Idea of Architecture, 1687

Piazzola 1687 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
158 Giovanni Bardi

The oldest and most complete treatise on Florentine football, the forerunner of modern football.

1673 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
159 Guido Bentivoglio

Guido Bentivoglio - Memoirs of Cardinal Bentiuoglio, in which he describes his life, and not only the things that happened to him during it, but also the most notable things that occurred in the city of Rome, in Italy, and elsewhere., 1648

Venice 1648 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
160 Guidobaldo Bonarelli della Rovere

Guidobaldo Bonarelli della Rovere - Works, 1640

Rome 1640 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
161 Renato Cartesio

Renato Cartesio - Tractatus de Homine, 1686

Amstelodami 1686 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
162

The Statutes of the Sacred Religion of St. John of Jerusalem with the Ordinances of the General Chapter, 1609

Rome 1609 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
163 Francesco Birago

Francesco Birago - Chivalric speeches, 1686

Bologna 1686 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
164 Filippo Cavriana

Filippo Cavriana - Speeches by Mr. Filippo Cavriana on tacitus, 1600

Florence 1600 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
165 Miguel (1942) Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - The Castilian Storyteller translated by Mr. Guglielmo Alessandro Novilieri, 1629

Venice 1629 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
166 Marco Anneo Lucano

Marco Anneo Lucano - Of civil beauty, 1658

Amsterdam 1658 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
167 Caio Secondo Plinio

Caio Secondo Plinio - Epistolarum libri X, 1669

Leiden 1669 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
168 Svetonio

Svetonio - Work and in the commentary Samuelis Pitisci, quo Antiquitates Romanae, 1690

Utrecht 1690 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 Unknown
169

Contes et nouvelles de Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, 1698

In Amsterdam 1698 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,400.00 Unknown
170 Petrus Cuneaus

Petrus Cuneaus - De republica hebraeorum, 1617

Leida 1617 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
171 Arnaud D'Ossat

Arnaud D'Ossat - Letters to princes of political affairs, and of compliments, from Mr. Cardinal d'Ossat., 1629

214x150 mm <br>Venice 1629 EUR 130.00 - 230.00 Unknown
172 Jeremias Drexel

Jeremias Drexel - Aeternitatis prodromus mortis nuntius, 1645

Cologne 1645 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
173

De principatibus Italiae tractatus vari, 1631

Leida 1631 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
174 Gioacchino da Fiore

The most famous treatise on prophecies and divinations

Venice 1605 EUR 250.00 - 500.00 Unknown
175 Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan, sive of Matter, Form, & potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis, 1668

[Amsterdam 1668]. EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
176 Francesco Bocchi

Francesco Bocchi - Elogiorum quibus viri doctissimi nati Florentiae decorantur, 1609

Florence 1609 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 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.