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Auction Name Books, Autographs and Prints Total Sales (EUR) 325,232.40
Auction Date November 12, 2025 - November 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 159,050.00
Sale Number #111225 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 254,310.00
Total Lots 397
Sold Lots 257.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 289,070.00
% of Lots Sold 64.74% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 436,800.00
Unsold Lots 140 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 74.46%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Dante Alighieri - Cristoforo Landino

Dante Alighieri - Cristoforo Landino (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - Commentary by Christophoro Landino Fiorentino on the Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet, 1481

1481 EUR 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 39,300.00
16 Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico - Principles of new science, 1725top

1725 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 34,060.00
2 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Convivium, 1490top

20 September 1490. EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 24,890.00
21 Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin - Borus Godunov, 1831top

1831 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 19,650.00
18 Giuseppe Verdi

Extremely rare autographed musical page from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, with his dedication to the Neapolitan painter Mancinelli

 with dedication EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 18,340.00
20 Semyon Korsakov

Semyon Korsakov - Opening a new investigation procedure into many machines to compare ideas. with two planches, 1832top

1832 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 17,030.00
87

Antiphonary with Gregorian Chant, 1480

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 8,515.00
10 Philippe de Commines

Philippe de Commines - The memoirs of Messire Philippe De Commines, Chevalier, Seigneur d'Argenton, on the principal facts & gestures of Louis Onzieme, 1561

 1561 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,860.00
12 Tolomeo, Claudio

Tolomeo, Claudio - The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, With some comments and additions made by Sebastiano, munstero Alamann, With not only the ancient and modern tables usually published, but also new ones added by Messer Iacopo Gastaldo Pia

 1548 [October 1547]. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,360.00
252 Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab - Free tasriphi composition est senis alemami. Traditur in eo compendiosa notitia conjugationum Arabic verbs, 1610

 1610 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 4,690.00
15 Torquato Tasso

One of the most beautiful illustrated books of the 18th century

 1745 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,422.00
92 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - Works of the divine poet Danthe with his commentaries: recorrecti et with every diligence newly imprinted in cursive letter, 1512

 1512 EUR 1,200.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,422.00
91 Dante Alighieri

The first scientific description of the cavity of Dante's Inferno

 1506 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,020.00
13 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri with various annotations and copious adorned copperplates, 1757

 1757-1758. EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,752.00
3 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Comedy, with commentary by Cristoforo Landino, 1484

 1484 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,484.00
4 Ubertinus de Casali

Ubertinus de Casali - Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi, 1485top

12 Mar. 1485 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,680.00
86 Antoninus Florentinus

Antoninus Florentinus - Confessional: Omnis mortalium cura [Italian] Mirror of conscience. Treatise on excommunication, 1472

 circa 1472-73]. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,680.00
183

Les principaux points de la foy catholique, 1642

 1642 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,680.00
250 Tommaso Porcacchi

The most famous Isolario of antiquity, a complete encyclopedia on the known islands

 1572 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,680.00
19 Napoleone Bonaparte

Napoleone Bonaparte - Napoleonic dioramas, 1810

 1810 EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,412.00
89

The first complete collection of military texts from antiquity

 1494 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 2,412.00
385 Salvador Dali

Dante Alighieri - Salvador Dali (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321, Figueres 1904 - 1989) - The Divine Comedy, 1963

 Officina Bodoni EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,412.00
184 Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, sieur de

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, sieur de - Les essays de Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne. New edition, 1659

 1659 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,278.00
264 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1796

 1796 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,144.00
387 Massimo Campigli

Massimo Campigli - Marco Polo - The Million, 1942

 1942 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,144.00
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
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