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
201		In festo purificationis BMV, In processione Dominicae Palmarum, In Sabbato Sancto ad benedictionem fontis.		XVIII secolo	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 234.60
202	Giovanni Nanni	Le antichita di Beroso Caldeo sacerdote	Venezia	1583	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 96.60
203	Mario Coniglio	Napoleone Bonaparte arte e storia nelle medaglie	Varese	1977	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 165.60
204		Napoli e i luoghi celebri nelle sue vicinanze	Napoli	1845	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 414.00
205		Collez. di 90 vedute della citta e Regno di Napoli	Roma	1843	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 414.00
206	Gabriel Naude; Giovanni Vittorio Rossi	Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont este faussement soupconnez de magie; Iani Nicii Erythraei Dialogi	L'Aia; Parigi	1653; 1642	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 276.00
207	Carlo Amoretti; Giovanni Francesco Ferro	Viaggio da Milano ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano e di Como, e ne' monti che li circondano; Istoria dell'antica citta di Comacchio	Milano; Ferrara	1801; 1701	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 690.00
208		Lotto di vedute dedicate alle Norvegia		N/A	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
209	Quinto Flacco Orazio	Opera	Parma	1793	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 138.00
210	Quinto Flacco Orazio	Satyrarum libri I. Satyra V	Roma	1816	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 193.20
211	Giuseppe Borsato	Opera ornamentale	Milano	1831	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 138.00
212	Ovidio	Fastorum libri diligenti emendatione	Toscolano	1527	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 248.40
213	Ovidio	Le Metamorfosi	Venezia	1571	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 303.60
214	Ovidio	Le metamorfosi..ridotte da Giouanni Andrea dell'Anguillara	Venezia	1575	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 248.40
215	Charles Malo	Les Capitales de l'Europe. Promenades pittoresques	Parigi	ND	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 96.60
216	Paolo Maria Paciaudi; Giuseppe Maria Pagnini	4 Books, including: Inscriptiones	Parma	1798; 1824; 1783; ND	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 248.40
217	Paolo Bussi; Vincenzo Mistrali; Antonio Magnani	5 Books, including: L'amicizia	Parma; Crisopoli	1809; 1797; 1794	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 179.40
218	Luigi Da Missaglia; Andrea D'Oria; Uberto Luigi Giordani; Tommaso Ceva	6 Books, including: Vita di Sant'Antonio di Padova	Parma	1786; 1781; 1803; 1799; ND	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 358.80
219	Luigi Mussi; Monsignor Turchi Vescovo di Parma; Alfonso Tacoli Canacci; Jerome Bocalosi; Moreau de Saint-Mery	6 Books, including: Poesie pubblicate dalla comunita di Parma	Parma	1806; 1796; 1805; 1785; 1789	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 358.80
220	Michele Lopez	Il battistero di Parma. Tavole		ND	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 193.20
221		Serenissimo d.d. Raynutio Farnesio Parmae, Placentiae.. Facti et iuris canonici..	Parma	1669	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 358.80
222		Statuta magnificae civitatis Parmae	Parma	1590	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 193.20
223	Giovanni Battista Passeri	Vite de' pittori scultori ed architetti che anno lavorato in Roma morti dal 1641 fino al 1673	Roma	1772	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 331.20
224	Giovanni Domenico Peri	Il negotiante	Venezia	1697	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 248.40
225	Lodovico Perini	Trattato della pratica di geometria	Verona	1739	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 124.20

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.