Finarte: NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory, 92925, Rome

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 29, 2025 - September 29, 2025

Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Michele De Jorio	Michele De Jorio - Discourse on the history of the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, to clarify the changes that have occurred from the beginning of their foundation to the present day, and the continuation of the Religion, 1761	Naples	1761	EUR 200.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
102	Alessio De Sariis	Alessio De Sariis - Of the History of the Kingdom of Naples, 1791	Naples	1791-92.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
103	Galeazzo Di Tarsia	Galeazzo Di Tarsia - The Rhymes of Galeazzo di Tarsia Cosentino, 1758	Naples	1758	EUR 60.00 - 150.00	EUR 134.00
104		Collection of all poems in the Neapolitan language, 1700	Naples	1787-88.	EUR 50.00 - 150.00	EUR 120.60
105	Ferdinando Galiani	Ferdinando Galiani - Of the Neapolitan dialect, 1779	Naples	1779	EUR 250.00 - 400.00	EUR 737.00
106	Nunziante Pagano	Nunziante Pagano - The Bbinte rolls of the Valanzone, 1700	Naples	1787	EUR 50.00 - 150.00	EUR 93.80
107	Giancola Sitillo - Publio Marone Virgilio	Giancola Sitillo - Publio Marone Virgilio - Virgil Marone's Aeneid transposed into Neapolitan octave rhyme, 1770	Naples	1770	EUR 50.00 - 150.00	EUR 93.80
108	Lorenzo Giustiniani	Lorenzo Giustiniani - Historical Memoirs of the Legal Writers of the Kingdom of Naples, 1787	Naples	1787	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
109	Pietro D'Onofri	Pietro D'Onofri - Brief information about the facade of the Neapolitan cathedral church, which gives an account of its ancient and impressive door and of the cleaning of both of them which took place in this year 1788., 1789	Naples	1789	EUR 200.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
110	Carlo Dottori	Carlo Dottori - The Donkey. A Mock-Heroic Poem by Iroldo Crotta. With arguments by Mr. Alessandro Zacco and annotations by Mr. Sertorio Orsato., 1796	Padua:	1796	EUR 50.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
111		Memories of the Underground City Discovered at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius, 1747	[Venice	1749].	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 134.00
112	Marcello de Venuti	Marcello de Venuti - Description of the first discoveries of the ancient city of Herculaneum, 1748	Rome	1748	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 737.00
113	Nicolo Carminio Falcone	Nicolo Carminio Falcone - The entire history of the family, life, miracles, translations, and cult of the glorious martyr St. Gennaro, 1713	Naples	1713	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 375.20
114	Pasquale Falvella	Pasquale Falvella - Response to the Brief History of the dominion of the Holy See in the Sicilies with a brief exposition of the rights of the Sovereign of the Two Sicilies, 1790	Naples	1790	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
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	Naples	1789	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 871.00
116	Carmine Fimiano	Carmine Fimiano - De ortu et progressu Metropoleon Ecclesiasticarum in Regno Neapolitano et Sicul, 1776	Naples	1776	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 107.20
117	Antonio Silla	Antonio Silla - The Founding of Partenope. Where the true origins, religion, and polity of the ancient city of Naples are explored., 1702	Naples	1769	EUR 300.00 - 320.00	EUR 402.00
118	Giusto Fontanini	Giusto Fontanini - On Italian eloquence, 1737	Venice	1737	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 134.00
119	Giovanni Battista Federici	Giovanni Battista Federici - Of the ancient Dukes and Consuls or Hypati of the city of Gaeta, 1791	Naples	1791	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 402.00
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	Lyon	1727	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,010.00
121	Francesco Sacco	Francesco Sacco - Geographical-Historical-Physical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Naples, 1795	Naples	1795-1796.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 375.20
122	Gaetano De Bottis	Gaetano De Bottis - Historical Reasoning Concerning New Volcanoes, 1761	Naples	1761	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 536.00
123	Nicola Partenio Giannettasio	Nicola Partenio Giannettasio - Neapolitan history divided into three tomos, 1713	Neapoli	1713	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 335.00
124	Domenico Giordano	Domenico Giordano - Delectus scriptorum rerum Neapolitanarum, qui populorum, ac civitatum res antiquas aliasque vario tempore gestas memoriae prodiderunt, 1735	Neapoli	1735	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
125	Alessandro Giraffi	Alessandro Giraffi - The Revolutions of Naples described by Mr. Alessandro Giraffi with a full account of every success, and secret and open treatises; newly reprinted and expanded., 1718	Parma	1718	EUR 240.00 - 260.00	Not Sold

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Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
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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
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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.
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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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