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Bertolami Fine Art : Books, Literary Works and Essays

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Books, Literary Works and Essays	Total Sales (EUR)	9,560.00
Auction Date	September 11, 2025 - September 11, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	18,150.00
Sale Number	#350	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	27,875.00
Total Lots	363
Sold Lots	205.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	29,790.00
% of Lots Sold	56.47%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	46,155.00
Unsold Lots	158	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	20.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
355	Il Menabo di Letteratura, diretto da Vittorini e Calvino. Torino, Einaudi 1959-1967. Completa in 10 volumi	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 440.00
55	Collane di Poesie edita da Einaudi - 58 volumi	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 360.00
235	Femminismo. Scritti di Rivolta femminile - 5 volumi	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 320.00
5	Opere di Antonio Gramsci. Giulio Einaudi NUE - 8 volumi in copertina rigida	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 260.00
25	Cofanetti Einaudi - 6 volumi con copertina rigida	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 200.00
237	Femminismo, scritti di Rivolta Femminile - 4 volumi	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 190.00
75	Opere di Franco Fortini su saggistica, surrealismo. I Meridiani Mondadori - 7 volumi	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 170.00
331	Movimento operaio Alfa Romeo. Movimenti del '77 - 8 volumi in brossura editoriale	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 150.00
11	Einaudi Editore saggi. Servizi segreti, anarchia, futurismo russo, musica, Black Panther Party, beethoven - 10 volumi in brossura editoriale e copertina rigida	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 120.00
13	Einaudi Editore saggi. Servizi segreti, anarchia, futurismo russo, musica, Black Panther Party, beethoven - 10 volumi in brossura editoriale e copertina rigida	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 120.00
17	Nuova Universale Einaudi. Novalis, Anna Frank, Lautreamont, Dylan THomas, Fanon - 6 volumi con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 120.00
21	Karl Marx, Il Capitale. 5 volumi, Giulio Einaudi Editore NUE 1978	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 120.00
84	Opere sul Gruppo '63 di Nanni Balestrini - 6 volumi	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 120.00
14	Einaudi Editore saggi. Dadaismo, Antonin Artaud, grafica, teatro, dinosauri, surrealismo - 11 volumi in brossura editoriale e copertina rigida	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 110.00
15	Nuova Universale Einaudi. Goethe, Pisacane, Gobetti, Fanon - 6 volumi con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 100.00
20	Nuova Universale Einaudi. Marco Polo, G. Stein, Edgar Snow, Ugo Foscolo, Balzac, B. Brecht	EUR 90.00 - 150.00	EUR 100.00
32	Vladimir Makakovskij, Opere complete. 8 volumi, Editori Riuniti 1958. Cofanetto rigido editoriale	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 100.00
272	Edizioni Squilibri - 9 volumi	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 100.00
273	Communismo, anarchismo e femminismo - 12 volumi	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 100.00
360	Einaudi incellofanati. - 8 volumi in brossura editoriale e copertina rigida	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 100.00
9	Tipografia e editoria - 10 volumi in brossura editoriale e copertina rigida	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 95.00
363	Marcel Proust, Alla ricerca del tempo perduto. Set di 7 volumi con cofanetto rigido editoriale. Einaudi NUE 1973	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 95.00
6	Opere di Primo Levi - 6 volumi in brossura editoriale e copertina rigida	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 90.00
10	Einaudi Editore saggi. Chiaramonte, Rivoluzione russa, agopuntura, Trotskij, politica - 10 volumi in brossura editoriale e copertina rigida	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 90.00
162	20 Anni di Controcultura. Milano, Ignazio Maria Gallino 2016 - 1 volume	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 85.00

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.
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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.