Finarte: Books and Manuscripts, 52526, Rome
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Ungaretti Giuseppe | Letter to Marthe Roux |
Udine | 1958 | EUR 2.50 - 3.50 | Not Sold |
| 28 | Verga Giovanni | Correspondence between the writer Giovanni Verga and his family |
1881-1918 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 29 | Verga Giovanni | Personal archive |
1880 | EUR 5.00 - 7.00 | Not Sold | |
| 30 | Puccini Giacomo; Zingarelli Italo; Pareto Vilfredo | Correspondence and documents |
1920-1970 | EUR 4.00 - 6.00 | EUR 5,280.00 | |
| 31 | Zingarelli Nicola | Documents and contracts |
Milan; Florence | 1912-1925 | EUR 1.20 - 1.60 | Not Sold |
| 32 | Becchi Guglielmo | Comentum in libros iconomicorum aristotelis |
1467 | EUR 15.00 - 20.00 | EUR 39,600.00 | |
| 33 | Bertapaglia Leonardo | N Books, including: [Praticha] |
1500 | EUR 3.00 - 4.00 | EUR 42,240.00 | |
| 34 | Cicerone Marco Tullio | Rhetoricae |
1470 | EUR 2.50 - 3.50 | EUR 26,400.00 | |
| 35 | Congress of the Whores |
1670 | EUR 2.00 - 3.00 | EUR 5,940.00 | ||
| 36 | da Bergamo Gaspare;Vittorino Gaio Mario | Liber de definitionibus; Orationes |
1450 | EUR 2.00 - 2.20 | EUR 13,200.00 | |
| 37 | Our Lady's Office |
1470 | EUR 10.00 - 12.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 38 | Pirotechnia figures reinvented |
1730 | EUR 1.50 - 2.00 | EUR 18,480.00 | ||
| 39 | Gradual |
Florence | 1470 | EUR 6.00 - 8.00 | EUR 31,680.00 | |
| 40 | Gratia Dei Johannes Baptista | De refutatione hebraicae sectae |
Rome | 1490 | EUR 1.00 - 1.20 | EUR 21,120.00 |
| 41 | Plinio Caio Secondo | Epistles |
1438 | EUR 2.00 - 3.00 | EUR 21,120.00 | |
| 42 | Polenton Sicco (1375-1476) | Sicconis Polentoni prefatio ad Modestum filium in Sancti Antonii confessoris de Padua vitam incipit |
Padua | 1476 | EUR 25.00 - 30.00 | EUR 50,160.00 |
| 43 | Psalter - Book of Hours |
1425 | EUR 6.00 - 8.00 | EUR 7,920.00 | ||
| 44 | Franciscus de Urbana | Latin Weekday Psalter |
Venice; Padua | 1488 | EUR 10.00 - 12.00 | EUR 14,520.00 |
| 45 | Summa de casibus valid utilis; Decretum abreviaturum |
1471 | EUR 1.20 - 1.40 | EUR 14,520.00 | ||
| 46 | Alighieri Dante | The Comedy |
Mantua | 1472 | EUR 340.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 47 | Curzio Rufo Quinto | De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni |
Milan | 1481 | EUR 2.00 - 3.00 | EUR 7,260.00 |
| 48 | Brant Sebastian; Locher Jacobus | Stultifera navis |
Augsburg | 1497 | EUR 2.00 - 3.00 | EUR 4,356.00 |
| 49 | Capella Martianus | De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii |
Vicenza | 1499 | EUR 7.00 - 10.00 | EUR 17,160.00 |
| 50 | Plotinus | Opera |
Florence | 1492 | EUR 12.00 - 14.00 | Not Sold |
| 51 | Alamanni Luigi; Rucellai Giovanni | La coltivazione; Le api |
Florence | 1590 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 184.80 |
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14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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