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Pandolfini: Books, Manuscripts & Autographs

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Auction Name	Books, Manuscripts & Autographs	Total Sales (EUR)	413,776.60
Auction Date	November 18, 2025 - November 18, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	251,100.00
Sale Number	#1394	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	334,350.00
Total Lots	219
Sold Lots	208.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	264,350.00
% of Lots Sold	94.98%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	351,550.00
Unsold Lots	11	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	117.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
134		Description de l'Egypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'expedition de l'armee francaise	1809--1829, 1820-1829	EUR 35,000.00 - 40,000.00	EUR 44,540.00
219	Quarantotti Gambini, Pier Antonio	Raccolta di oltre 250 lettere autografe firmate		EUR 27,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 34,060.00
50	Palladio, Andrea	I quattro libri dell'architettura	1570	EUR 13,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 19,650.00
185	Hitler, Adolf	Mein Kampf	1925-27	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 19,650.00
7	Tritemio	Polygraphiae libri sex	1518	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 9,825.00
37	Vesalio, Andrea	De humani corporis fabrica	1568	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 9,825.00
137		Prima edizione della prima opera di John Gould con gli sfondi non colorati		EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 8,515.00
135	Allioni, Carlo	Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii	1785	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 7,598.00
71	Bordone, Benedetto	Isolario	1534	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 7,205.00
167	Carroll, Lewis	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	1866	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 7,205.00
5	Ricci, Paolo	Hoc opere contenta. De prooemio et eius partibus questio	1511	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 6,288.00
76	Visscher, Nicolaus	Atlas Minor sive geographia compendiosa qua orbis terratum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur	[circa 1670]	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 5,895.00
15	Tartaglia, Nicolo	Rara raccolta di opere del celebre matematico ed ingegnere composta da la Nova Scientia del 1550	1550	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 5,502.00
84	[Savonarola, Raffaele]	Regnorum, provinciarum, civitatumque ac quorumque locorum orbis terrarum nomina latina	1716	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 4,716.00
13	Stoffler, Johannes	Calendarium romanum magnum	1518	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 4,585.00
113	Orilia, Francesco	Il Zodiaco over idea di perfettione de prencipi	1630	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 4,585.00
131		La piu bella raccolta di stampe delle antichita d'Ercolano		EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 4,585.00
61	Pozzo, Andrea	Prospettiva de' pittori e architetti	1693-1700	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,192.00
75	Blaeu, Willem e Jan	Le Theatre du monde	1635	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 4,192.00
26	Proclo Diadoco e Francesco Barozzi	In primum Euclidis Elementorum librum commentariorum	1560	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,930.00
11	San Tommaso d'Aquino	Scriptum secundum luculentissimum angelico. Legato con Problemata	1520	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 3,406.00
10	Dante	De la volgare eloquenzia	1529	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 3,144.00
138		Famiglie celebri italiane di Pompeo Litta Biumi		EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,144.00
154	Piranesi, Giovanni Battista	Rovine delle Terme Antoniniane	[1765]	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 3,144.00
158	Piranesi, Giovanni Battista	Veduta della Villa Estense in Tivoli	[1773]	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,144.00

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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.
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.