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
301 Festo, Rufio

De verborum Meaning Fragmentum, 1582

1582 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
302 Alunno, Francesco

Of the fabric of the world, 1588

1588 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 387.00
303 Dolce, Lodovico

Of the observations of M. Lodovico Dolce, books III, 1568

1568 EUR 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
304 Ruscelli, Girolamo

De commentarii of the Italian language, 1581

1581 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
305 Baldinucci, Filippo

Tuscan Vocabulary of the Art of Drawing, 1681

1681 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 645.00
306 Equicola, Mario

Of Nature of Love, 1607

1607 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
307 Molino, Giovanni

The Historic, Geographical, and Poetic Proprinomy, 1694

1694 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
308 Saggistica

Forge of Mars in which with wonderful industry, and with the finest temper of military instruction, all the orders are prepared [..], 1641

1641 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
309 Beccaria, Cesare

Of crimes and punishments, 1764

1764 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
310 Buonmattei, Benedetto

Of the Tuscan language, 1714

1714 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
311 Ruscelli, Girolamo

On the way of composing verse in the Italian language, 1741

1741 EUR 40.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
312 Puysegur, Jacques-Francois de Chastnet

The Art of War, 1753

1753 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
313 Soliani Raschini, Antonio

Treaty on Modern Fortification for Young Italian Soldiers, 1748

1748 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
314 Bourscheid, Johann Wilhelm von

Grande Tactique et Manoeuvres de Guerre, Suivant les Principes de sa Majeste Prussienne., 1780

1780 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
315 De Marchi, Gaetano

New Popular Encyclopedia, or General Dictionary of Science, Literature, Arts, History, Geography, etc., 1842

1842 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
316 Domenico Milone

The perfect epistolary manual for the use of secretaries and private individuals, with the formula of all the titles, 1816

1816 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
317 Cinagli, Angelo

The coins of the popes described in synoptic tables, 1848

1848 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
318 Cadolini, Ignazio

New reflections on the natural causes of the Fuligno earthquakes, 1832

1832 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
319 Saggistica

Miscellaneous, 1850

1850 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
320 Requeno y Vives, Vicente

Observations on chirotypography or the ancient art of hand printing , 1810

1810 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 65.00
321 Metoscita, Pietro

Institutiones linguae arabicae ex diversis arabum monumentis collectae., 1624

1624 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
322 Apres de Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis

Instructions on the Navigation of the Eastern Indies and China, to serve the Neptune Oriental, 1775

1775 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
323 Viaggi

Collection of works on Christopher Columbus, 1781

1781 EUR 800.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
324 Viaggi

Report of Corsica by James Boswell, squire, transported into Italian, 1769

1769 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
325 Viaggi

History of the Revolutions of the Island of Corsica, 1739

1739 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 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