• Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.
    Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
  • Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, 1st edition, 1844. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Rashleigh (Philip). Specimens of British Minerals, 2 parts in 1, 1797 & 1802. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Murchison (Roderick Impey). The Silurian System, 1st edition, 1839. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on South America, 1st edition, 1846. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Emerson (William). Cyclomathesis: or an Easy Introduction to ... Mathematics, 10 vols. in 9, 1770. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Robinson (Thomas). New observations on the Natural History of This World of Matter, 1696. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Aquinas (Thomas). [Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte, Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Parfit (Cliff). Tesuki Washi. Handmade Papers of Japan, 1981-1988. £400 to £600.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Herbert (Thomas). A Relation of some yeares Travaile... Into Afrique and the greater Asia, 1634. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Lindbergh (Charles A.). The Spirit of St. Louis, 1955, signed. £200 to £300.
  • Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo.
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Finarte: NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory

Auction Reports

Auction Name NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory Total Sales (EUR) 77,974.60
Auction Date September 29, 2025 - September 29, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 34,480.00
Sale Number #92925 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 50,790.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 140 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 50,830.00
% of Lots Sold 70.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 73,280.00
Unsold Lots 60 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 106.41%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4 Pino Giovan Battista

Pino Giovan Battista - Reasoning about the donkey, 1549

between 1560 and 1563]. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 3,216.00
195 Michele Torcia

Michele Torcia - Report of the last eruption of Vesuvius which occurred in the month of August of this year 1779, 1779

1779 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,144.00
41

Tragic and amorous events that occurred in Naples or elsewhere to the Neapolitans...History of Heresies of Sister Giulia di Manco [Marco], and her followers., 1670

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,010.00
120 Joannes de Alcala et Burgos - Giulio del Pozzo

Joannes de Alcala et Burgos - Giulio del Pozzo - Flores Genealogical Augustae Familiae Juliae Falviae Lascarae - Imperialis Gentis Lascaris Genealogy., 1727

1727 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,010.00
191 Maria Giuseppe Mecatti

Maria Giuseppe Mecatti - Historical-philosophical account of Vesuvius and in particular of what happened in this last eruption which began on 25 October 1751 and ceased on 25 February 1752 in the place called the Atrio del Cavallo., 1752

1752 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,876.00
7 Prospero Caravita

Prospero Caravita - Pragmaticae edicta regiaeq. sanctiones Neapolitani reigns in vnum congestae, suis distinctae titulis, miroque order illustrated. For ... Prosperum Carauitam patritium Ebolitanum, 1581

1581 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,608.00
133

Instruction for the Coronation of the King, S.or hecha in the City of Palermo, 1735

EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,608.00
183 Placido Troyli

Placido Troyli - General history of the Kingdom of Naples

1747-1754. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,474.00
196

Journal of the Voyage of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, made in the month of May 1813 to Constantinople on the Frigate Minerva, 1813

EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 1,474.00
1 Gregorio I Papa

Gregorio I Papa - Moralia, sive Expositio in Job, 1496

Anno domini 1496 xi mensis aprilis. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,340.00
13 Luigi Tansillo

Luigi Tansillo - The Tears of Saint Peter, 1585

1585 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 1,340.00
164 Gianstefano Remondini

Gianstefano Remondini - From the ecclesiastical history of Nola to the sanctity of our Lord, 1747

1747-1757. EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,340.00
188 Scipione Breislak

Scipione Breislak - Memoir of the eruption of Vesuvius which occurred on the evening of June 15, 1794., 1794

1794 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,273.00
16 Biagio Aldimari

Biagio Aldimari - Historical memoirs of various noble families, 1691

1691 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,072.00
192 Gaspare Paragallo

Gaspare Paragallo - Natural history of Mount Vesuvius divided into two books, 1705

1705 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 1,072.00
197 Antonio Coppi

Antonio Coppi - Speech on the political history of the Kingdom of Naples, 1814

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,072.00
6 Giovanni Battista della Porta

Giovanni Battista Della Porta - Villae I. Baptistae Portae neapolitani. Books XII, 1592

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,005.00
9 Scipione Mazzella

Scipione Mazzella - The Lives of the Kings of Naples. With their life-size portraits., 1594

1594 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 1,005.00
182 Giovanni Vivenzio

Giovanni Vivenzio - History and Theory of Earthquakes [...] of Calabria and Messina, 1783

1783 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 1,005.00
60 Marcello Bonito

Marcello Bonito - Trembling Earth or continuation of Earthquakes from the Creation of the World to the present time, 1691

1691 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 938.00
185

Of the volcanoes or fire-breathing mountains best known and most distinctly Vesuvius, 1779

1779 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 938.00
36 Giordano De Nicastro

Giordano De Nicastro - Historical Memories of the City of Benevento, 1680

EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 871.00
73 Tommaso Vitale

Tommaso Vitale - History of the royal city of Ariano and its diocese, 1794

1794 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 871.00
115 S. Ferdinando

Ferdinando IV - Re delle Due Sicilie - Origin of the population of S. Leucio and its progress up to the present day, 1789

1789 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 871.00
189 Giovanni Maria Della Torre

Giovanni Maria Della Torre - History and phenomena of Vesuvius presented by PDGio: Maria della Torre, 1755

1755 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 871.00
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  • Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Presentation Copy of a Whitman "Holy Grail." Whitman, Walt. $10,000-$15,000.
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950