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

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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
76 Alamanni, Luigi

The Cultivation, 1549

1549 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
77 Bembo, Pietro

The Asolani, 1505

1505 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
78 Alighieri, Dante

Comedy by Dante Alighieri divine poet: with the exposition of Christophoro, 1529

1529 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,064.00
79 Alighieri, Dante

Dante with the exposition by Christoforo Landino, 1564

1564 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
80 Alighieri, Dante

Danthe Alighieri Florentine historiado, 1507

1507 EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
81 Alighieri, Dante

Dante, with arguments and explanations from many places..., 1547

1547 EUR 200.00 - 500.00 EUR 310.00
82 Alighieri, Dante

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, a Florentine nobleman, was adapted to a better lesson by the Accademia della Crusca., 1595

1595 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,419.00
83 Ariosto, Ludovico

Orlando Furioso[...] translated into romance castel by the S. Don Hieronimo de Urrea, 1556

1556 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 194.00
84 Bembo, Pietro

Ad Herculem Strotium De VIrgilii Culice...- De Aetna - De Imitatione libellus- De Guido Ubaldo Feretrio , 1530

1530 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
85 Bembo, Pietro

Of the Rhymes, 1548

1548 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,290.00
86 Bembo, Pietro

Rhymes, 1530

1530 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
87 Baldassarre Castiglione

The Courtier, 1562

1562 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 310.00
88 Crinito, Pietro

Petri criniti libri de poetis latinis, 1505

1505 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 258.00
89 Della Casa, Giovanni

Ioannis Casae latina monimenta, 1564

1564 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 129.00
90 Firenzuola, Agnolo

The rhymes, 1549

1549 EUR 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
91 Firenzuola, Agnolo

Prose by M. Agnolo Firenzuola Florentine, 1548

1548 EUR 350.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
92 Firenzuola, Agnolo

The Trinutia comedy by M. Agnolo Firenzuola, Florentine, 1551

1551 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
93 Gelli, Giovan Battista

Polifila, Pleasant and New Comedy, 1556

1556 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
94 Machiavelli, Niccolo

The Golden Donkey, 1549

1549 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 387.00
95 Martelli, Lodovico

Tuscan works by Mr. Lodovico Martelli. With the addition of the Quarto of Vergil, corrected, and reprinted again., 1548

1548 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
96 Catullo, Gaio Valerio

And in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti, 1559

1559 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
97 Poliziano, Angelo

Angeli Politiani Opera. Quorum primus hic tomus complectitur Epistolarum libros 12. Miscellaneorum centuriam 1, 1536

1536 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
98 Firenzuola, Agnolo

The Trinity of Firenzuola, 1549

1549 EUR 130.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
99 Seneca, Lucio Anneo

Seneca's Tragedies, translated by M. Lodovico Dolce, 1560

1560 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 155.00
100 Varchi, Benedetto

The second part of the lectures by M. Benedetto Varchi, 1561

1561 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 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