Finarte: Books and Manuscripts, 52526, Rome

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
Page Size: 274 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Sepulveda Juan Gines

Antapologia pro Alberto pio Comite Carpensi in Erasmum Roterodami

Rome 1530 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 184.80
102 Giambullari Pierfrancesco

History of Europe

Venice 1566 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 198.00
103 Tacito Publio Cornelio

Annalium et historiarum libri qui extant

Lyon 1576 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
104 Villani Matteo;Villani Filippo

Historia

Florence 1577 EUR 80.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
105 Virgili Polidoro

De rerum inventoribus libri octo

Rome 1585 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
106 Zeno Santo

Sermones

Venice 1508 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 264.00
107 Bidloo Govard

Collection of anatomical plates

1690-1799 EUR 120.00 - 140.00 EUR 198.00
108 Perucci Francesco

Funeral services from all the nations of the world collected from Sacred and Profane Histories

Verona 1639 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
109 Finella Filippo

De planetaria naturali phisonomia

Naples 1649 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
110 Galilei Galileo

Works of Galileo Galilei

Bologna 1655-1656 EUR 1.00 - 2.00 EUR 3,960.00
111 Magini Giovanni Antonio

Italia

Bologna 1620;1642 EUR 8.00 - 10.00 EUR 15,840.00
112 Bellarmino Roberto

On the art of dying well

Palermo 1620 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 990.00
113 Bordoni Matteo

Dialogue on the Games Played by Bergamo Knights

Bergamo 1602 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 858.00
113b Descartes Rene

Tractatus de Homine

Amstelodami 1686 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
114 de Las Casas Bartolome

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Venice 1643 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 1,056.00
115 Drexel Jeremias

School of Patience

Rome 1643 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 132.00
116 Paribona Innocenzo

Guess it Grillo, that is, the Finte Sorti

Tivoli 1647 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
117 Buxtorf Johannes

Lexicon chaldaicum, talmudicum et rabbinicum

Basel 1640 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 EUR 158.40
118

Administrative document

1670 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
119 Heinlin Johann Jakob (1588-1660)

Sol temporum sive Chronologia Mystica

Tubingae 1646 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
120 Pergamini Giacomo (1531-1615)

Treatise on the Language

Venice 1613 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 264.00
121 Marino Gio. Battista; Ciro of Persia

N Books, including: Epithalami of the Marine caualier

Venice 1624; 1688 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 171.60
122 Le Clerc Daniel

Bibliotheca anatomica; sive, recens in anatomy inventorum thesaurus locupletissimus

Geneva 1685 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 132.00
123 Tiling Matthias

Parekbasis seu Digressio physico-anatomica curiosi de vase brevi lienis ejusque usu nobili ac egregio in corporis humani oeconomia

Minden 1676 EUR 60.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
124 Meibomius Marcus

Antiquae Musicae

Amsterdam 1652 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 792.00
  • 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
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000