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
126 Varano, Alfonso

John of Giscala, 1754

1754 EUR 70.00 - 150.00 EUR 90.00
127 Tissot, Samuel

On the health of men of letters, 1773

1773 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
128 Verri, Alessandro

Roman nights at the tomb of the Scipios, 1797

1797 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
129 Alighieri, Dante

Dante by Stradano - Illustrations to the Divine Comedy by Giovanni Stradano , 1892

1892 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 426.00
130 Alighieri, Dante

Divine Comedy, 1868

1868 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
131 Boccaccio, Giovanni

The Ruffianella, 1856

1856 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 129.00
132 Letteratura

The Song of Songs., 1800

1800 EUR 60.00 - 150.00 EUR 103.00
133 Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de

Marianne. Voltaire's tragedy, newly translated., 1804

1804 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
134 Canigiani, Ristoro

The Restored. An unpublished poem in terza rima from the fifteenth century., 1847

1847 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 65.00
135 Colonna, Vittoria

The Rhymes of Vittoria Colonna, 1840

1840 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 155.00
136 Beaufort d'Auberval, Alphonse Aime

Erotic-Philosophical Contes, 1882

1882 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
137 De Crebillon, Prosper Jolyot

Oeuvres, 1802

1802 EUR 40.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
138 Beardsley, Aubrey

The Savoy. An Illustrated Quarterly, 1896

1896 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
139 Frianoro, Raffaele

Treatise on Bianti, or Beggars, and Vagrants, with a Method for Learning the Sly Language, 1828

1828 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 65.00
140 Manzoni, Alessandro

Various works, 1871

1871 EUR 40.00 - 100.00 EUR 142.00
141 Porta, Carlo

Poems, 1887

1887 EUR 20.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
142 Letteratura

Panegyric to the Sacred Majesty of Napoleon, 1808

1808 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
143 Alighieri, Dante

The Landian Code of the Divine Comedy, 1921

1921 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
144 Alighieri, Dante

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri...with an exposition by Giuseppe Lando Passerini from Cortona , 1911

1911 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
145 Alighieri, Dante

The Divine Comedy, 1943

1943 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
146 Alighieri, Dante

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy in 16th-Century Art, 1908

1908 EUR 120.00 - 140.00 EUR 284.00
147 Alighieri, Dante

The Divine Comedy illustrated by Gustave Dore, 1927

1927 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
148 Alighieri, Dante

The Evan Mackenzie Library's Dante Collection, 1923

1923 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
149 Bontempelli, Massimo

Venice Saved, 1947

1947 EUR 90.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
150 Dubout, Albert / Chevallier, Gabriel

Clochemerle, 1934

1934 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