Finarte: Books, Autographs and Prints, 111225, Rome

Auction Details

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
27	Francesco Terzio	First appearance of the famous hot air balloon, the forerunner of modern airplanes	Brescia	1670	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,139.00
28		Reason for the general public data Old and new of Brescia and Bresciano, 1679	Brescia	1679	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 241.20
29	Lodovico Baitelli	Lodovico Baitelli - History of the seditious and malcontents against the State of the Most Illustrious City of Brescia with the confirmation of the Privileges, Uses, Statutes and Customs of the same City, 1645		1645	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 536.00
30		Criminal and civil statutes of the magnificent community of the Riviera, 1674	Salo	1674	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 804.00
31	Leonardo Cozzando	Leonardo Cozzando - Brescia bookshop, 1694	Brescia	1684	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 348.40
32	Leonardo Cozzando	Leonardo Cozzando - Vague and curious summary of the profane and sacred history of Brescia, 1694	Brescia	1694	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 241.20
33	Bernardino Faino	Bernardino Faino - Catalogs quatuor compendiarij quos coelum sancte Brixianae ecclesiae circumplectitur, 1658	Brescia	1658	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 294.80
34	Giovanni Battista Nazari	Giovanni Battista Nazari - Ancient Brescia, 1658	Brescia	1658	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 348.40
35	Giovanni Battista Nazari	Giovanni Battista Nazari - Ancient Brescia [....] Which contains its truest origins, and the cult of its ancient gods. Added is an account of those lords who have dominated it from time to time;, 1658	[Brescia:	1658].	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 254.60
36	Alessandro Saron	Alessandro Saron - True Origin of the City & People of Brescia, 1691	Brescia	1691	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 268.00
37	Francesco Birago	Francesco Birago - The Chivalric Discourses, 1628	Milan	1628	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 187.60
38	Tristano Calco	Tristano Calco - Historiae Patriae Libri XX, 1627	Milan	1627-44 (but 1628 ).	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 147.40
39	Agostino Gallo	Agostino Gallo - The twenty days of agriculture and the pleasures of the villa, 1775	Brescia	1775	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 402.00
40		Statuta magnificae civitatis Brixiae cum reformatione novissima anni MDCXXI, 1722	Brescia	1722	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 375.20
41		Civil statutes of the Magnificent City of Brescia translated into vulgar language, 1776	Brescia	1776	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 294.80
42		Statutes and Provisions of the University of Apothecaries, Grocers, Confectioners and Mandolin Makers of the City of Brescai and its District, 1756	Brescai	1756	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 375.20
43	Ludovico Muratori	Ludovico Muratori - On the government of the plague and ways to guard against it, 1721	Brescia	1722	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 241.20
44		Collection of notices, edicts, orders etc. published in the name of the sovereign people of Brescia by the provisional government and its committees with the addition of patriotic speeches concerning the regeneration, 1797	Brescia	[1797].	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 509.20
45	Francesco Saverio Salfi	Francesco Saverio Salfi - Virginia Bresciana. Franco Salfi's tragedy, dedicated to the people of Brescia., 1797	Brescia	[1797-1798].	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 107.20
46	Angelo Maria Querini - Giangirolamo Gradenigo	Angelo Maria Querini - Giangirolamo Gradenigo - Venetian Tiara and Purpura ab anno MCCCLXXIX ad annum MDCCLIX serenissimae rei publicae venetae a civitate Brixiae dicata, 1761	Brescia	1761	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 670.00
47	Giammaria Biemmi	Giammaria Biemmi - History of Brescia, 1748	Brescia	1748-49.	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 442.20
48	Giovanni Chizzola	Giovanni Battista Carboni - Luigi Chizzola - The paintings and sculptures of Brescia which are exhibited to the public with an appendix of some private galleries, 1760	Brescia	1760	EUR 180.00 - 250.00	EUR 938.00
49	Giuseppe Colpani	Giuseppe Colpani - Poems and letters in blank verse, 1769	[In Brescia:	1769].	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 107.20
50	Durante Duranti	Durante Duranti - Rhymes by Count Durante Duranti, Patrizio Bresciano, dedicated to the Sacred Royal Majesty of Charles Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, 1755	Brescia	1755	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 174.20
51	Durante Duranti	Durante Duranti - Virginia. Tragedy dedicated to His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy., 1768	Brescia	1768	EUR 180.00 - 250.00	Not Sold

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.