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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Umberto Boccioni; Soffici | Opera completa; Bif&Bif; Manifesto dei Pittori futuristi |
Foligno; Firenze; Venezia | 1927; 1919; 1910 | EUR 30.00 - 50.00 | EUR 358.80 |
| 102 | Jean de Gaigny | Brevissima et facillima in omnes divi Pauli epistolas scholia |
Parigi | 1543 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 138.00 |
| 103 | Tommaso Garzoni | La piazza universale di tutte le professioni |
Venezia | 1586 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 276.00 |
| 104 | Francesco Ginanni | Delle malattie del grano in erba |
Pesaro | 1759 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 110.40 |
| 105 | Paolo Giovio; Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinzio | Ragionamento..sopra i motti, & disegni d'arme, & d'amore; Egle |
Venezia | 1556; ND | EUR 20.00 - 30.00 | EUR 179.40 |
| 106 | Giovambattista Giraldi; Girolamo Ruscelli | Discorsi; Tre discorsi |
Venezia | 1554; 1553 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 165.60 |
| 107 | Giuseppe Giusti | Nuovi versi |
Firenze | 1847 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 69.00 |
| 108 | Giulio Pace | Iustiniani institutionum libri IIII |
Ginevra | 1597 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 124.20 |
| 109 | 2 Books, including: Stefano della Bella |
N/A | EUR 20.00 - 30.00 | EUR 151.80 | ||
| 110 | Calepino; Girolamo Tiraboschi; Giovanni Battista Novati | Dictionarium septem linguarum; Dizionario topografico-storico degli Stati estensi; De eminentia deiparae Virginis Mariae |
Venezia; Modena; Bologna | 1673; 1824; 1639 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 220.80 |
| 111 | Anton Francesco Grazzini | La prima e la seconda cena Novelle di Antonfrancesco Grazzini detto il Lasca |
Londra [i.e. Parigi] | 1756 | EUR 20.00 - 30.00 | EUR 69.00 |
| 112 | Matthau Merian | Die Stadt Prevesa und die Vestung S. Maura; Die Stadt und Festung Coron |
1688; 1685 | EUR 20.00 - 30.00 | EUR 69.00 | |
| 113 | Plan de Rhodes; Athens and its environs |
N/A | EUR 20.00 - 30.00 | EUR 55.20 | ||
| 114 | LJ. de A Roche | Voyage d'un amateur des arts, en Flandre, dans les Pays-Bas, en Hollande, en France, en Savoye, en Italie, en Suisse, fait dans les annees 1775-76-77-78 |
Amsterdam | 1783 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 1,518.00 |
| 115 | Joseph-Etienne de Jouy | L'Hermite en Italie, ou Observations sur les Moeurs et Usages des Italiens au Commencement du XIX Siecle; Voyage historique d'Italie |
Parigi; L'Aia | 1825; 1729 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 331.20 |
| 116 | John Eustace; Adolphe Lance | A Classical Tour Through Italy; Excursion en Italie |
Londra; Parigi | 1817; 1873 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 386.40 |
| 117 | Sabelli; White; Crawford; Edwin Lee | La guida sicura del viaggio d'Italia; On foot through Tyrol in the summer of 1855; Life in Tuscany; Memoranda on France, Italy, and Germany |
Ginevra; Londra | 1680; 1856; 1859; ND | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 759.00 |
| 118 | Thomas Martyn; Gabriele Quattromani | A tour through Italy; Itinerario delle due Sicilie |
Londra; Napoli | 1791; 1827 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 1,035.00 |
| 119 | Antoine Laurent Castellan; Marianne Baillie; Della Torre | Lettres sur l'Italie faisant suite aux lettres sur la Moree, l'Hellespont et Constantinople; First Impressions on a Tour upon the Continent in the Summer of 1818, Through Parts of France, Italy, Switzerland, the Borders of Germany, and a Part of French Fl |
Parigi; Londra; Chiavari | 1819; 1819; 1838 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 897.00 |
| 120 | Marien Vasi | Journal abrege du voyage d'Italie fait de nouveau par la Champagne, la Loraine, la Suisse, le Milanois; Itineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou description generale des monumens anciens et modernes; Una visita ad Arqua |
Rouen; Roma; Padova | 1727; 1815; ND | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 2,484.00 |
| 121 | PERROT; DE VENERONI | Nouvel itinerarire portatif d'Italie; Le Maitre Italien |
Parigi; Amsterdam | 1827; 1697 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 552.00 |
| 122 | N Books, including: Guide - Viaggio |
N/A | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 483.00 | ||
| 123 | Floris Van der Haer | De initiis tumultuum Belgicorum… libri duo |
Douai | 1587 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 124.20 |
| 124 | Il Selvaggio |
1927-1943 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 179.40 | ||
| 125 | KIER | Vedute e Monumenti Classici di Venezia e suoi Contorni; N Books, including: Palermo, Vigevano e la Toscana |
Venezia | N/A | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 1,104.00 |
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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.