Aste Bolaffi: Rare Books and Autographs, 61726, Roma
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 17, 2026 - June 18, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 230 | Buonarroti Michelangelo; Salvini Anton Maria; Segni Bernardo | Buonarroti, Michelangelo. |
Firenze | 1726; 1723 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 231 | Senault Louis | [Calligrafia]. |
Parigi | 1680 circa | Not Available | EUR 350.00 |
| 232 | Midolle Jean | [Calligrafia]. Midolle, Jean. |
Strasburgo | 1834-35 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 233 | Mouchy Antoine de;Begat Jean | [Calvinisti]. |
1560;1564;1561 | Not Available | EUR 325.00 | |
| 234 | Filandro Cretense;Rossetti Domenico;Pelleri Giuseppe;Chiari Pietro;Bacchi Giuseppe | [Caratteri bodoniani]. |
Parma | 1792;1800 circa;1827;1762;1776;1807;1847 | Not Available | EUR 275.00 |
| 235 | Ancini Luigi;Manilio Marco;Corbellini Napoleone;Bellini Filippo;Niccolosi Giovanni Battista;Tacchini Ferdinando;Mazza Angelo | [Carte colorate]. |
Reggio;Parma | 1818;1700s;1842;1844;1830;1847;1843;1829 | Not Available | EUR 800.00 |
| 236 | Ferraro Pirro Antonio | [Cavalli]. Ferraro, Pirro Antonio. |
Venezia | 1620 | Not Available | EUR 425.00 |
| 237 | Trutta Giovanni Battista | [Cavalli]. Trutta, Giovanni Battista. |
Napoli | 1785 | Not Available | EUR 250.00 |
| 238 | Bembo Pietro | [Cinquecentine]. |
Firenze | 1590;1547;1564;1549;1550;1570 | Not Available | EUR 800.00 |
| 239 | Cipelli Francesco Bernardino | [Cinquecentine]. Cipelli, Francesco Bernardino. |
Milano | 1521 | Not Available | EUR 300.00 |
| 240 | Giovanni Cassiano | [Cinquecentine]. Giovanni Cassiano. |
Lione | 1516 | Not Available | EUR 600.00 |
| 241 | Petrarca Francesco;Tomitano Bernardin;Equicola Mario;Varchi Benedetto;Della Casa Giovanni | [Cinquecentine]. |
1526;1546;1564;1531;1599;1555;1586;1592 | Not Available | EUR 850.00 | |
| 242 | Platina | [Cinquecentine]. Il Platina. |
Venezia | 1543 | Not Available | EUR 375.00 |
| 243 | Valla Lorenzo;Toscanella Oratio;Calepini Ambrogio;Manuzio Paolo;Manuzio Aldo il Giovane | [Cinquecentine]. |
Venezia;Brescia;Lovanio;Parigi | 1586;1547;1574;1551;1570;1579;1554 | Not Available | EUR 1,000.00 |
| 244 | Bonaventura;Tommaso d'Aquino;Ranpengolis Antonio | [Cinquecentine]. |
Venezia;Mantova | 1504;1524;1500;1716 | Not Available | EUR 1,300.00 |
| 245 | Panigarola Francesco;Jean de Gagny | [Cinquecentine]. |
Parigi | 1586;1547 | Not Available | EUR 150.00 |
| 246 | Speroni Sperone | [Cinquecentine]. Speroni, Sperone. |
Venezia | 1546 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 247 | Demostene; Eschine | [Classici - Aldina]. Demostene. |
Venezia | 1557 | Not Available | EUR 250.00 |
| 248 | Paolini Fabio | [Classici - Eneide]. |
Venezia | 1589 | Not Available | EUR 150.00 |
| 249 | Tacito Cornelio; Amelot de la Houssaye A.N. | [Classici - Tacito]. |
Venezia | 1589; 1644; 1684 | Not Available | EUR 325.00 |
| 250 | Brandimarte Antonio | [Classici]. Brandimarte, Antonio. |
Roma; Venezia | 1815; 1765 | Not Available | EUR 350.00 |
| 251 | Cesare Caio Giulio | [Classici]. Cesare. |
Venezia | 1539; 1517 | Not Available | EUR 700.00 |
| 252 | Livio Tito | [Classici]. Livio, Tito. |
Venezia | 1532 | Not Available | EUR 275.00 |
| 253 | Hagenbuch Johann Kaspar; Mirandola Ottaviano; Senofonte; Cicerone M.T.; Blackwell Thomas; Gazzera Costanzo | [Classici]. |
Zurigo; Amsterdam; Firenze | 1744; 1512; 1711; 1821; 1824 | Not Available | EUR 300.00 |
| 254 | Virgilio; Frontino; van Schuurman Anna Maria; Anacreonte; Mably Gabriel Bonnot de; Teodoreto di Cirro | [Classici]. |
Parigi; Leiden; Perugia; Ginevra; Venezia | 1760; 1699; 1751; 1648; 1791; 1749; 1548 | Not Available | EUR 700.00 |
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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.