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Aste Bolaffi: Rare Books and Autographs

Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare Books and Autographs Total Sales (EUR) 560,125.00
Auction Date December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 258,740.00
Sale Number #734 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 310,500.00
Total Lots 179
Sold Lots 143.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 354,302.00
% of Lots Sold 79.89% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 425,175.00
Unsold Lots 36 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 131.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
52 Galilei, Galileo.

Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano.

1632 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 62,500.00
9 Colonna, Francesco.

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet.

1499 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 60,000.00
110

Mishnah.

1548-49. EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 40,000.00
28 Ortelius, Abraham.

Theatrum orbis terrarum.

1570 EUR 12,500.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 37,500.00
29 Herbert, William , e Henry Gregory.

A New Directory for the East Indies.

1767 EUR 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 35,000.00
8 Terenzio.

Comoediae.

1496 EUR 6,250.00 - 7,500.00 EUR 17,500.00
66 Bonelli, Giorgio.

Hortus Romanus juxta systema Tournefortianum paulo strictius distributus a Georgio Bonelli.

1772-84. EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
76 Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich.

Anna Karenina.

1878 EUR 8,750.00 - 10,500.00 EUR 16,250.00
5 Dante.

La Commedia.

1487 EUR 7,500.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
31 Zatta, Antonio.

Atlante novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle osservazioni, e scoperte fatte dai piu celebri e piu recenti geografi.

1775-85. EUR 12,500.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
2

Hore intemerate virginis marie secundum usum Romanum cum pluribus orationibus tam in gallico quam in latino.

1505 EUR 7,500.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 13,750.00
36 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

Cristo guarisce gli infermi, o i 100 fiorini.

1649 circa. EUR 12,500.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
179 Zatta, Antonio.

Atlante novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle osservazioni, e scoperte fatte dai piu celebri e piu recenti geografi.

1775-1785. EUR 8,750.00 - 10,500.00 EUR 11,250.00
15 Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria.

Lombardia, Piemonte, Savoja, Provenza, Milanese, Mantovano, Monferrata, Parmegiano, Modonese; Stato Ecclesiastico Roma, Umbria, Marche, Urbino; Regno di Napoli, Sicilia e Malta.

circa 1706]. EUR 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 10,625.00
30 Nolli, Giovanni Battista.

Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli l'anno 1748.

1748]. EUR 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 8,750.00
4

Biblia latina.

1478 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
12 Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria.

Curia Romana, La Romagna, Ravenna ricercata, Ducato di Ferrara, Comacchio, Il Bolognese, Il Ducato della Mirandola.

circa 1706]. EUR 3,125.00 - 3,750.00 EUR 7,500.00
22

Mahazor kol ha-shanah ke-minhag ... Ashkhenazim.

1756 EUR 3,125.00 - 3,750.00 EUR 7,500.00
106

Machazor.

1557 EUR 625.00 - 750.00 EUR 7,500.00
44 Saint-Non, Jean Claude Richard de.

Voyage pittoresque ou Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

1781-86. EUR 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 6,875.00
63

Esemplare con le tavole ben impresse e fresche della celebre opera Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts liberaux et les arts mechaniques,

1762-72 EUR 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,250.00
3

Statuta communis Brixie.

1473 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
17 Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria.

Epitome cosmografica.

1693 EUR 3,125.00 - 3,750.00 EUR 5,000.00
64 Giglioli, Enrico Hillyer.

Iconografia dell'avifauna italica, ovvero, Tavole illustranti le specie di uccelli che trovansi in Italia : con brevi descrizioni e note.

1879-94]. EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
10 Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria.

Teatro della guerra: Belgio, Il Belgio confederato, Luoghi posseduti dal Belgio confederato fuori dell'Europa.

1706 EUR 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 4,500.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
  • Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.