Maison Bibelot: An Important Florentine Collection, Part Two: The Library, 317, Firenze

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Auction Date
October 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025
Page Size: 416 items in 17 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Anton Filippo Adami

Saggio di prose e poesie del senatore cavaliere Anton Filippo Adami

Lucca 1767 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 101.60
2 Agostino Ademollo

Marietta de' Ricci, ovvero Firenze al tempo dell'assedio: racconto storico

Firenze 1845 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 50.80
3 Eugenio Alberi

Vita Caterina de' Medici. Saggio storico di Eugenio Alberi

Firenze 1838 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 88.90
4 Andrea Alciati

Elenchi dictionum, quae enodantur in libris quatuor de verbo, signifi. Do. Andreae Alcia. iurecon

Excudebantur Lugduni 1540 EUR 280.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
5 Sibilla Aleramo

Momenti: liriche

Firenze 1922 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.80
6 Dante Alighieri

Commedia di Dante Allighieri con ragionamenti e note di Niccolo Tommaseo

Milano 1869 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 38.10
7 Dante Alighieri

La Divina Commedia di Dante con gli argomenti, allegorie e dichiarazioni di Lodovico Dolce

Bergamo 1752 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 139.70
8 Gaspero Amidei

Sulle fortificazioni volterrane

Lino 1847 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 101.60
9 Scipione Ammirato (1531 - 1601)

Istorie fiorentine di Scipione Ammirato

1641 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 381.00
10 Diego Angeli

Mino da Fiesole

Florence 1905 EUR 20.00 - 30.00 EUR 25.40
11 P.F. Angelum a Lantusca

Angelo da Lantosca Theatrum regularium in quo Brevi Methodo, Varia Decisiones, tam Apostolicae, quam Ordiniam Minorum de Observantia [...]

Romae 1669 EUR 280.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
12 Giulio Anastasio Angelucci

Degli avvenimenti occorsi nella citta di Arezzo

Arezzo [1796?] EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 88.90
13 Giulio Anastasio Angelucci

Stanze dell'Abate G. Anastasio Angelucci con documenti e note a illustrazione della citta e degli uomini celebri di Arezzo

Pisa 1816 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
14 Ludovico Ariosto

Orlando furioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto con gli argomenti in ottava rima di M. Lodovico Dolce

Venetia 1713 Not Available EUR 139.70
15 Ludovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto, tutto ricorretto, et di nuove figure adornato

Venetia 1572 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 279.40
16 Baccio Baldini

Vita di Cosimo Medici primo Gran Duca di Toscana

Firenze 1578 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 406.40
17 Francesco Baldovini

Lamento di Cecco da Varlungo di Francesco Baldovini colle note d'Orazio Marrini

Firenze 1817 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
18 Francesco Balducci Pegolotti

Della Decima e delle altre gravezze contenente la Pratica della mercatura scritta da Francesco Balducci Pegolotti e copiata da un Codice manoscritto esistente in Firenze nella Biblioteca Riccardiana

Lisbona e Lucca 1766 Not Available EUR 241.30
19 Angelo Maria Bandini

Lettere XII ad un amico

Maggio 1776 EUR 180.00 - 230.00 Not Sold
20 Giovanni Bardi

Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio fiorentino

in Firenze 1580 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
21 Pietro Bembo

Le rime di messer Pietro Bembo cardinale

In Verona 1750 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
22 Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli

Nuovi dialoghi italiani de' morti

Cosmopoli 1770 Not Available EUR 38.10
23 Antonio Benivieni

Vita di Piero Vettori, L'antico Gentil'huomo fiorentino

Fiorenza 1583 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 508.00
24 Bernardus Claraevallensis santo

Trattato della consideratione di S. Bernardo abbate di Chiaravalle

In Venetia 1606 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.80
25 Francesco Bertolini

Storia di Roma dalle origini italiche sino alla caduta dell'impero d'occidente

Milano 1886, 1058 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 38.10
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