Finarte: Christmas Special / Antique Books, Autographs and Prints, 121125, Rome

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 12, 2025
Page Size: 388 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 Domenico, Magri Maltese

Information on ecclesiastical terms, with a description of the ceremonies and origin of sacred rites., 1650

1650 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
252 Platina, Bartolomeo / Briffault, Eugene

History of the Lives of the Supreme Pontiffs, 1600

1600 EUR 120.00 - 200.00 EUR 258.00
253 Religiosi

Holy Bible, 1740

1740 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
254 Storia locale

Brixie Statue, 1508

1508 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
255 Dominici, Giovanni

Treatise on Charity, 1595

1595 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
256 Storia locale

Statute, & Decree, 1567

1567 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 155.00
257 Nardi, Jacopo

The stories of the city of Florence, 1584

1584 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 387.00
258 Storia locale

Chronology of the Noble Families of Bologna with their Coats of Arms, and finally their Crests..., 1670

1670 EUR 160.00 - 250.00 EUR 206.00
259 Baldinucci, Filippo

Life of the Knight Gio. Lorenzo Bernino, sculptor, architect, and painter [...]. To Her Sacred and Royal Majesty, Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1682

1682 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
260 Aringhi, Paolo

Rome Underground, 1659

1659 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
261 Donati, Alessandro

Roma vetus ac recens utriusque aedificiis illustrata, 1694

1694 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 361.00
262 Meyer, Cornelio

Works, 1685

1685 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
263 Storia locale

New Tariff of Goods, 1754

1754 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
264 Storia locale

Poetic wreath woven by the Arcadians...for the Most Serene Giambatista Cambiaso, Doge...on the occasion of his solemn coronation following the 8th February 1772, 1772

1772 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
265 Cominale, Celestino

Neapolitan physico-medical epidemic history, 1764

1764 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
266 Murena, Massimiliano

Life of Robert King of Naples, 1770

1770 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
267 degli Abati Olivieri Giordani, Annibale

Marmora Pisaurensia Notis Illustrata , 1737

1737 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
268 Storia locale

Comparison tables for the reduction of weights and measures used in various places in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to the weight and measure in force in Florence, 1782

1782 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
269 Brocchi, Giuseppe Maria

Description of the province of Mugello, 1748

1748 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
270 Venosta, Felice

Milan and its streets, 1823

1823 EUR 60.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
271 De Rossi, Giovanni Battista

Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae septimo saeculo, 1888

1888 EUR 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
272 Clavius, Cristophorus

Astrolabe, 1593

1593 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
273 Tartaglia, Niccolo

The new science, 1562

1562 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
274 Dioscoride , Pedanio

De medicinali materia libri sex, 1543

1543 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
275 Dioscoride , Pedanio

Of medicinal matter, 1547

1547 EUR 250.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000