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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
126 Domenico Maria Manni

Notizie istoriche intorno al parlagio ovvero anfiteatro di Firenze

In Bologna 1746 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
127 Domenico Maria Manni

Principj della religion cristiana in Firenze

In Firenze 1764 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
128 Domenico Maria Manni

Principj della religion cristiana in Firenze

In Firenze 1764 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
129 Domenico Maria Manni

Le veglie piacevoli ovvero Notizie de' piu bizzarri e giocondi uomini toscani

Firenze 1815-1816 EUR 50.00 - 60.00 EUR 76.20
130 Aldo Manuzio (1547 - 1597)

Vita di Cosimo de' Medici

In Bologna 1586 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
131 Alessandro Manzoni

I Promessi Sposi Storia milanese del secolo XVII

Milano 1852 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 76.20
132 Niccolo Matas

Dimostrazione del progetto del Cav. Prof. Architetto Niccolo Matas

Firenze 1859 EUR 120.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
133 Antonio Mazzarosa

Opere del Marchese Antonio Mazzarosa

Lucca 1841 Not Available EUR 38.10
134 Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi

Alexii Symmachi Mazochii Metropolitanae Ecclesiae Neapolit

Neapoli 1771 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
135 Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi

Spicilegii biblici

Neapoli 1762-1778 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
136 Pietro Metastasio

Opere

Trieste 1857 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
137 Pier Antonio Micheli

CL. Petri Antonii Michelii, Catalogus plantarum horti caesarei Florentini

Florentiae 1748 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,041.40
138 Domenico Moreni

Notizie istoriche dei contorni di Firenze raccolte dall'Abate Domenico Moreni

Firenze 1791-1795 Not Available EUR 355.60
139 Domenico Moreni

[Two volumes on the Basilica of San Lorenzo]

Firenze 1827 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 114.30
140 Benito Mussolini

Roma antica sul mare

Milano 1926 Not Available Not Sold
141 Eugene Muntz

Firenze e la Toscana: paesaggi e monumenti, costumi e ricordi storici

Milano 1899 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 76.20
142 Ugo Ojetti

Bello e brutto

Milano 1930 Not Available EUR 50.80
143 Giovanni Francesco Pagnini

Della Decima e delle altre gravezze della moneta, e della mercatura de' fiorentini

[i.e. Firenze] 1765 EUR 180.00 - 200.00 EUR 228.60
144 Aldo Palazzeschi

Bestie del 900

Firenze 1951 EUR 160.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
145 Ferdinando Paoletti

Pensieri sopra l'agricoltura

Firenze 1769 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
146 Giuseppe Parini

Poesie

Firenze 1823 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
147 Filippo Parlatore

Les collections botaniques du Musee Royal de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Florence

Florence 1874 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 88.90
148 Crispijn: van de Il Giovane Passe

Compendium Operum Virgilianorum

Vltraiecti Batavorum 1612 EUR 220.00 - 260.00 EUR 279.40
149 Luigi Passerini

Gli Alberti di Firenze, genealogia storia e documenti

In Firenze 1869 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
150 Luigi Passerini

Le Armi dei municipj toscani illustrate

Firenze 1864 Not Available EUR 38.10
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.