Il Ponte: Books, 768, Milan (Italy)

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 21, 2026 - April 21, 2026

Page Size: 317 items in 13 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	MYLIUS; Achille PARBONI	Malerische Fussreise; Roma; Excrusion a la grande chartreuse		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 1,242.00
127	Thomas Hastings; Hubert CLERGET	Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson, with some Memoirs if his Life; Italian scenes. A series of interesting delineation of remarkable Views and of the most celebrated remains of antiquity; Nuova raccolta delle Vedute di Roma antica e moderna disegna	Londra; Londra; Roma; Parigi	1825; 1825; 1843; 1856	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 455.40
128		Tableau du Cabinet de Mr. Poullain	Parigi	ND	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 82.80
129	Giulio Cesare Isolani	Apologia..alla lettera stampata	Bologna	1672	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 41.40
130	Ignazio Heymann	Italia cioe tutte le grandi e picciole Sovranita e Repubbliche d'Italia divise nelli nuovi loro Confini; N Maps, including: Cuneo, Nizza, Genova, Milano	Trieste	c. 1800	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 1,104.00
131	BUCKINGAM	France, Piedmont, Italy; Album di acquerelli	Londra	ND	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 621.00
132	TOPFFER; MOYNE; DE MUSSET, Paul; DE MUSSET, Paul	Premiers voyages en zigzag; Italie; Voyage pittoresque en Italie. Partie meridionale; Voyage pittoresque en Italie. Partie septentrionale	Parigi; Rouen; Parigi; Parigi	1855; 1855; ND; 1855	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 220.80
133		Itinerario italiano; Il viaggiatore commerciante a tutte le fiere e mercati d'Italia e d'Europa	Milano; Milano	1820; ND	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 690.00
134	Thomas Kempis	Opuscula aurea	Venezia	1568	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 165.60
135	Francesco Medoni; Luigi Boniforti	Un viaggio sul Lago Maggiore, ovvero la descrizione delle sponde del Verbano; Il lago maggiore e dintorni; Gioranale Itinerario-perpetuo	Milano	1828; ND	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 1,380.00
136	Niccolo Laghi	I Miracoli del Santissimo Sacramento	Venezia	1599	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 179.40
137	Ortensio Lando	Commentario delle piu notabili, et mostruose cose d'Italia	Venezia	1548	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 151.80
138	Felix Benoist; Carl Rottmann	Nemi e il suo lago; Tivoli	Nantes; Monaco	c. 1870; c. 1860	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 13.80
139	Guillaume Finden; William Brockedon	Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron	Londra	1833	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 303.60
140		N Books, including: Antonio Rosmini; The Americana		N/A	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 138.00
141	PARINI; BUFFON	Opere; Storia naturale. Gli uccelli	Milano; Venezia	1802; 1788	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 828.00
142	Xavier Leprince	Les inconvenients d'un voyage en diligence; Tribulations des gens a equipages	Parigi; Parigi	1826?; 1827	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 414.00
143		N Books, including: Moravia, Carducci, Ibsen		N/A	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 207.00
144	Winston Churchill	La seconda guerra mondiale	Milano	1948	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 151.80
145	MANZONI; THIERS	Promessi sposi; Consolato e impero di Napoleone	Capolago	1845	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 179.40
146	PERETTI GRIVA; MANZONI	Roma. Novanta vedute moderne; I promessi sposi	Torino; Bergamo	1949; 1947	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 41.40
147	GUERLIN; DEIGHTON	L'art ensegne par les maitres; Looking into paintings		N/A	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	EUR 27.60
148	PLAUTO; FLAVIO GIUSEPPE; Lucio Vitruvio Rossi	Comoediae viginti; Operum; Primus, secundus et tertius: vel grammaticarum quaestionum libri tres; Modo di studiare le pistole famigliari di M. Tullio Cicerone	Lione; Lione; Genova; Venezia	1554; 1557; 1542; 1567	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 524.40
149	Joan de Coras; Nicolaus Everardi	Regularum utriusque iuris..; Commentarii; Loci argumentorum legales	Venezia; Lione; Lione	1566; 1554; 1579	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 621.00
150	VIGNOLA; Borgnino Cavalcani; SOFOCLE	Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura; Tractatus.. de tutore, et curatore; Antigone; Philosophia civilis christiana	Bologna; Venezia; Lione; Venezia	ND; 1606; 1550; 1540	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 552.00

Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7

Sotheby’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, 2026

Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000

Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000

Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000

Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000

Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500

Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000

Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000

Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000

Forum, 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.