Finarte: Books, Autographs and Prints, 111225, Rome

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 12, 2025 - November 12, 2025
Page Size: 397 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed 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

Florence 1481 EUR 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 39,300.00
2 Dante Alighieri

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

Florence 20 September 1490. EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 24,890.00
3 Dante Alighieri

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

Venice 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

Venice 12 Mar. 1485 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,680.00
5 Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus

Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465 top

Subiaco 29 October 1465. EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
6 Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca - Hoc est preclarum Testamentum Illustri poete Francisci Petrarca, 1498top

Venice [after 1498]. EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
7 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - Dante's terza rime, 1502top

[Lyon after 1502]. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
8 Aristotele - Tommaso d'Aquino

Aristotele - Tommaso d'Aquino - S. Thomae Aquinatis In octo Physicorum Aristotelis libros commentaria - In Libros Aristotelis De Coelo et Mundo Commentaria, 1551

Venetians: apud Iuntas 1551 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
9 Matteo Bandello

Matteo Bandello - The first [-fourth] part of Bandello's novels, 1554

Lucca 1544 EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
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

Paris 1561 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,860.00
11 Loredan Leonardo, Doge

Venice's commercial policy, an extraordinary document of Renaissance economics

Venice's commercial policy 1509 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
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

Venice 1548 [October 1547]. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,360.00
13 Dante Alighieri

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

Venice 1757-1758. EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,752.00
15 Torquato Tasso

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

Venice 1745 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,422.00
16 Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico - Principles of new science, 1725top

Naples 1725 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 34,060.00
17 Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy, 1809

Milan 1809 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
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
19 Napoleone Bonaparte

Napoleone Bonaparte - Napoleonic dioramas, 1810

1810 EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,412.00
20 Semyon Korsakov

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

St. Petersburg 1832 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 17,030.00
21 Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin - Borus Godunov, 1831top

St Petersburg: at the Press of the Department of Public Education 1831 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 19,650.00
22 Quinto Orazio Flacco

Quinto Orazio Flacco - Poemata omnia. Centimetrum Marij Seruij. Annotationes Aldi Manutij Romani in Horatium, 1527

Venice September 1527. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 442.20
23

Data statute, criminality and civility totius communitatis Riperiae Lacus Baenaci Brixiensis, 1536

Venice 1536 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,340.00
24 Elia Capriolo

Elia Capriolo - Twelve books of Brescian histories. In which the origin and antiquity can be seen [..] until the year 1585, 1585

Brescia 1585 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 670.00
25

Deed of sale, 1562

1562 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 268.00
26 Francesco Mantovano

Francesco Mantovano - Second [-third] book by Lautrecho. Interloqutors Milan Pope Leo as a soul of a spy & the author, 1522

[Milan not before 1522]. EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,340.00
  • 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.