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Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Session V

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Auction Name	Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Session V	Total Sales (EUR)	90,602.00
Auction Date	October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	41,940.00
Sale Number	#63E	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	41,940.00
Total Lots	132
Sold Lots	116.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	81,780.00
% of Lots Sold	87.88%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	81,780.00
Unsold Lots	16	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	110.79%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
614	Rossini Luigi	Rossini Luigi, Le antichita romane ossia raccolta delle piu Interessanti vedute di Roma antica... Roma: presso il negozio Scudellari via Condotti [...]: dai tipi di Mercurj e Robaglia, 1829.	1829	EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 11,970.00
605	Porcacchi Tommaso	Porcacchi Tommaso, L'isole piu famose del mondo [...] intagliate da Girolamo Porro... In Venetia: appresso gli heredi di Simon Galignani, 1604.	1604	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 3,780.00
584	Ordre de Saint Michel	Ordre de Saint Michel, Statuts de l'Ordre de St. Michel. [Paris]: De l'Imprimerie royale, 1725.	1725	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 3,024.00
580	Mordant de Launay Jean Claude Mien	Mordant de Launay Jean Claude Mien, Herbier general de l'amateur, contenant la description, l'histoire, les proprietes et la culture des vegetaux utiles et agreable [...] Tome premier [-huitieme]. Paris: Audot, 1816-1827.	1816	EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00	EUR 2,772.00
600	Pigafetta Antonio	Pigafetta Antonio, Il viaggio fatti da gli Spagniuoli a torno a' l mondo. [S.l., s.n.]: 1536.	1536	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,772.00
627	Tasso Torquato	Tasso Torquato, La Gerusalemme liberata [...] Con le figure di Giambatista Piazzetta alla sacra real maesta di Maria Teresa d'Austria... In Venezia: stampata da Giambatista Albrizzi q. Girol., 1745.	1745	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,520.00
621	Segato Girolamo, Valeriani Domenico	Segato Girolamo, Valeriani Domenico, Atlante del Basso e Alto Egitto [...] illustrato sui disegni di Denon... Firenze: nello stabilimento posto nei fondacci di Santo Spirito, 1835-37.	1835	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,394.00
604	Pontini Giovanni	Pontini Giovanni, La cacciagione de' volatili, osia L'arte di pigliare uccelli in ogni maniera... In Vicenza: appresso Giandomenico Occhi librajo in Piazza, 1758.	1758	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,890.00
625	Stato Pontificio (Governo)	Stato Pontificio (Governo), Ragguaglio delle cose operate dal Ministero del Commercio, delle Belle Arti [...] dall'anno 1859 al 1864. Roma: Tipografia della Reverenda Camera Apostolica, 1864.	1864	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,890.00
558	Lopez de Gomara Francisco	Lopez de Gomara Francisco, Historia del illustriss. et valorosiss. capitano don Ferdinando Cortes marchese della Valle, et quando discoperse, et acquisto la Nuoua Hispagna... Impressa in Roma: per Valerio, & Luigi Dorici fratelli, 1556.	1556	EUR 800.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,764.00
585	Ortes Giammaria	Ortes Giammaria, Calcolo sopra la verita della storia... Venezia: dalla Tipografia Fracasso, 1815.	1815	EUR 900.00 - 900.00	EUR 1,764.00
588	Palmieri Matteo	Palmieri Matteo, Libro della Vita Civile. (Al colophon:) In Firenze: per gli Heredi di Philippo Giunta, 1529.	1529	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 1,764.00
589	Paoletti Ermolao	Paoletti Ermolao, Il fiore di Venezia ossia i quadri, i monumenti, le vedute, ed i costumi veneziani... Volume I (-IV). Venezia: Tommaso Fontana Edit., 1837.	1837	EUR 400.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,638.00
598	Piccolomini Alessandro	Piccolomini Alessandro, De la sfera del mondo. Libri quattro in lingua toscana [...] De le stelle fisse. Libro uno con le sue figure, e con le sue tavole... In Venetia: al Segno del Pozzo, 1540.	1540	EUR 400.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,512.00
534	Gonzalez Davila Gil	Gonzalez Davila Gil, Teatro eclesiastico de la primitiva iglesia de las Indias Occidentales... Tomo primero (-segundo). En Madrid: por Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1649-1655.	1649	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,260.00
642	Vecellio Cesare	Vecellio Cesare, Habiti antichi overo Raccolta di figure delineate dal gran Titiano, e da Cesare Vecellio suo fratello, diligentemente intagliate, conforme alle nationi del mondo... In Venetia: per Combi, & LaNou, 1664.	1664	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,260.00
571	Masini Eliseo	Masini Eliseo, Sacro arsenale, overo Prattica dell'officio della S. Inquisitione ampliata. In Roma: appresso gl'heredi del Corbelletti, 1639. (Al colophon:) In Roma: nella stamperia degl'heredi di Francesco Corbelletti, 1640.	1640	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,197.00
634	Tricasso Patrizio	Tricasso Patrizio, Chyromantia [...] in vulgare tradutta... (Al colophon:) In Venetia: per Io. Francisco & Io. Antonio de Rusconi Fratelli, Adi 18 del mese de Febraio 1524.	1524	EUR 100.00 - 100.00	EUR 1,134.00
646	Vigevano Giuseppe	Vigevano Giuseppe, Nisayon Ktav Lashon HaKodesh ossia Saggio di caratteri ebraici ad uso della studiosa gioventu... Mantova, (Reggio [Emilia]: co tipi della societa), 1824.	1824	EUR 900.00 - 900.00	EUR 1,134.00
581	Moro Antonio Lazzaro	Moro Antonio Lazzaro, De' crostacei e degli altri marini corpi... Venezia: Appresso Stefano Monti, 1740.	1740	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,071.00
611	Ripa Cesare	Ripa Cesare, Nova iconologia [...] ampliata ultimamente dallo stesso auttore di trecento imagini... In Padova per Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1618.	1618	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,071.00
647	Vitruvius Marcus Pollio	Vitruvius Marcus Pollio, L'Architettura [...] colla traduzione italiana e comento del Marchese Berardo Galiani... In Napoli: Nella Stamperia Simoniana, 1758.	1758	EUR 100.00 - 100.00	EUR 1,008.00
547	Joni Icilio Federico	Joni Icilio Federico, Riproduzione di una biccherna del XV secolo. Siena: 1460, (ma Siena 1890-1910).	1900	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 945.00
559	Lopez de Gomara Francisco	Lopez de Gomara Francisco, Historia di don Ferdinando Cortes [...] che discopri, & acquisto la nuova Spagna. Parte terza. In Venetia: per Francesco Lorenzini da Turino, 1560.	1560	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 945.00
590	Passeri Bernardino	Passeri Bernardino, Speculum, & exemplar Christicolarum... Romae: 1587. (Al colophon:) Romae: ex typographia Bartholomaei Bonfadini, 1587.	1587	EUR 160.00 - 160.00	EUR 945.00

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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.