Il Ponte: Books, 768, Milan (Italy)
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 21, 2026 - April 21, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 276 | Vedute, mappe e incisioni |
N/A | EUR 20.00 - 30.00 | EUR 82.80 | ||
| 277 | Henry Swinburne (1743-1803) | Travels in the two Sicilies |
Londra | 1790 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 828.00 |
| 278 | Sylva Lauro |
Parma | 1506 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 524.40 | |
| 279 | Numerosi volumi editi da Tallone |
N/A | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 414.00 | ||
| 280 | Numerosi volumi editi da Tallone |
N/A | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 552.00 | ||
| 281 | Numerosi volumi editi da Tallone |
N/A | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 621.00 | ||
| 282 | Mario Teluccini | Le pazzie amorose di Rodomonte Secondo |
Parma | 1568 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 455.40 |
| 283 | Claudio Tolomei | Due orazioni in lingua toscana |
Parma | 1547 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 220.80 |
| 284 | Pomponio Torelli | Trattato del debito de cavalliero |
Parma | 1596 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 234.60 |
| 285 | Ferdinand I und Maria Anna Carolina in Kuestenlande im September 1844. Piano per la gita dell LL. MM. II. RR. da Trieste a Capodistria. |
Trieste | [1845] | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 621.00 | |
| 286 | Giuseppe Vasi | Raccolta delle principali vedute antiche e moderne di Roma e delle sue vicinanze |
Rom | 1802 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 69.00 |
| 287 | Antoine Marie Chenavard | Vues d'Italie, de Sicile et d'Istrie |
Lione | 1861 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 248.40 |
| 288 | James Hackwell | A Picturesque Tour of Italy |
Londra | 1820 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 386.40 |
| 289 | Pasquale Bossi; Gaetano Bonatti | 7 Items, including: Album der ausgewahlten Ansichten von Tyrol |
Milano | 1870; 1906; 1862; ND | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 3,036.00 |
| 290 | Richard Wilson | Libri con vedute e fotografie |
Oxford | 1811; ND | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 966.00 |
| 291 | Cristobal de Vega | Commentaria in librum Aphorismorum Hippocratis |
Venezia | 1571 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 96.60 |
| 292 | G. B. Cecchini; G. Pividor; T. Viola | Vedute Dei Principali Monumenti di Venezia |
Venezia | [ca. 1860] | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 414.00 |
| 293 | Vincenzo Coronelli | Guida de' forestieri sacro-profana per osservare il piu ragguardevole nella Citta di Venezia; Blasone veneto |
Venezia | 1706 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 331.20 |
| 294 | Donato Giannotti; Gaspare Contarini; Girolamo Garimberti | Libro de la republica de vinitiani; La Republica e i magistrati di Vinegia; De regimenti publici de la citta Venezia |
Roma; Venezia | 1542; 1544 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 303.60 |
| 295 | Carle Vernet | Campagnes des Francais sous le Consolat et l'Empire |
Parigi | ND | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 524.40 |
| 296 | William Light; Johannes Petrus Hasebroek; Richard Bridgens; Dagnet; Richard Doyle; George French Angas; Edward Lear; Amelia Edwards | 10 Books, including: Sicilian Scenery |
Londra; Amsterdam; Parigi | 1823; 1861; 1821; 1828; 1854; 1842; 1852; 1890; ND | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 3,312.00 |
| 297 | Richard Keppel Craven; Valery | 5 Books, including: Letters from Italy between the years 1792 and 1798 |
Londra; Roma; Bruxelles | 1800; ND; 1821; 1844 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 331.20 |
| 298 | Carlo Grillo; Chenavard | 6 Manuscripts and Albums, including: Relazione di un piccolo viaggio fatto nelle cavanze nel 1876 |
1876; 1869; 1690; 1851 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 414.00 | |
| 299 | La Rochere; Guglielmo Villarosa; Louis Enault; Estella Canziani | 6 Books, including: Rome. Souvenirs religieux, historiques, artistiques |
Parigi; Dublino; Napoli; Londra | 1853; ND; 1850; 1841; 1913 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 524.40 |
| 300 | Thomas Roscoe | The tourist in Italy; The tourist in Switzerland and Italy |
Londra | 1831-33; 1839 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 386.40 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.