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Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Sessions 2 and 3

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Auction Name	Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Sessions 2 and 3	Total Sales (EUR)	276,439.00
Auction Date	March 04, 2026 - March 04, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	131,940.00
Sale Number	#68b	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	131,940.00
Total Lots	294
Sold Lots	211.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	238,300.00
% of Lots Sold	71.77%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	238,300.00
Unsold Lots	83	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	116.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
267	Cavalieri Bonaventura	Cavalieri Bonaventura, Geometria indivisibilibus continuorum nova quadam ratione promota... Bononiae: typis Clementis Ferronij, 1635.	1635	EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00	EUR 45,360.00
355	Oresme Nicole	Oresme Nicole, Incipit perutilis tractatus de latitudinibus formarum... (Al colophon:) Impressus ac diligenti cura emendatus padue: per magistrum Matheum Cerdonis de vuindisgrecz, 1486. Die vero 18. mensis Februarij.	1486	EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 30,240.00
350	Mengoli Pietro	Mengoli Pietro, Geometriae speciosae elementa... Bononiae: typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij, 1659.	1659	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 10,080.00
269	Cavalieri Bonaventura	Cavalieri Bonaventura, Exercitationes geometricae sex. Bononiae: typis Iacobi Montij, 1647.	1647	EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 9,450.00
254	Briggs Henry	Briggs Henry, Arithmetica logarithmica sive Logarithmorum chiliades triginta... Londini: Excudebat Gulielmus Iones, 1624.	1624	EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,040.00
341	Laplace Pierre Simon (de), Knight Thomas	Laplace Pierre Simon (de), Knight Thomas, Traite de mecanique celeste [...] Tome premier [-cinquieme]. A Paris: de l'imprimerie de Crapelet chez J.B.M. Duprat, [Vol. 4:] chez Courcier. [Vol. 5:] Bachelier, [1798]-1827.	1798	EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,040.00
372	Schooten Franz (van), Huygens Christiaan	Schooten Franz (van), Huygens Christiaan, Exercitationum mathematicarum... [Leida]: Officina Johannis Elsevirii, 1657.	1657	EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00	EUR 4,788.00
333	L'Hospital Guillaume Francois Antoine (de)	L'Hospital Guillaume Francois Antoine (de), Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes. A Paris: de l'imprimerie royale, 1696.	1696	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 3,780.00
336	Lagrange Joseph Louis	Lagrange Joseph Louis, Mechanique analitique... A Paris: chez la veuve Desaint, 1788. (Al colophon:) A Paris: de l'imprimerie de Philippe-Denys Pierres.	1788	EUR 2,800.00 - 2,800.00	EUR 3,780.00
369	Sacrobosco Ioannes (de), Mauro da Firenze	Sacrobosco Ioannes (de), Mauro da Firenze, Sphera volgare novamente tradotta con molte notande additioni... [CON:] Annotationi sopra la lettione della Spera del Sacro Bosco... (Al colophon:) Impresso in Venetia per Bartholomeo Zanetti ad instantia & requi	1537	EUR 1,700.00 - 1,700.00	EUR 3,780.00
249	Boscovich Ruggiero Giuseppe	Boscovich Ruggiero Giuseppe, De viribus vivis dissertatio... Romae: typis Komarek in via Cursus, 1745.	1745	EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 3,528.00
365	Rinaldini (o Renaldini) Carlo	Rinaldini (o Renaldini) Carlo, Opus mathematicum... Bononiae: ex typographia H.H. Ducij, 1655.	1655	EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 3,276.00
210	Villa Emilio	Villa Emilio, Sette frammenti da L'Arte dell'uomo primordiale. Milano: Cento Amici del Libro, [2004]. (Al colophon:) Verona: Officina Bodoni, 2004.	2004	EUR 800.00 - 800.00	EUR 3,024.00
318	Grassi Orazio, Galilei Galileo	Grassi Orazio, Galilei Galileo, Ratio ponderum librae et simbellae: in qua quid e Lotharij Sarsij libra astronomica, quidque e Galilei Galilei simbellatore, de cometis statuendum sit... Lutetiae Parisiorum: sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1626.	1626	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 3,024.00
346	Magalotti Lorenzo	Magalotti Lorenzo, Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento... In Firenze: per Giuseppe Cocchini all'Insegna della Stella, 1666.	1666	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 3,024.00
121	Boetti Alighiero	Boetti Alighiero, Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Italy: Alighiero and Anne-Marie Boetti, 1977.	1977	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,772.00
313	Galilei Galileo	Galilei Galileo, Dialogo [...] dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo... In Padova: nella stamperia del Seminario, appresso Gio. Manfre, 1744.	1744	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,772.00
378	Sover Bartholomaeus	Sover Bartholomaeus, Curvi ac recti proportio... Patavii: ex typographia Varisci Varisci, 1630.	1630	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,772.00
103		Bibbia di S.Paolo fuori le mura. Roma: Editalia, 1992.	1992	EUR 150.00 - 150.00	EUR 2,520.00
281	Dal Monte Guidobaldo, Archimedes	Dal Monte Guidobaldo, Archimedes, In duos Archimedis aequeponderantium libros paraphrasis scholijs illustrata. Pesaro: apud Hieronymum Concordiam, 1588. (Al colophon:) Pisauri: Apud Hieronymum Concordiam, 1587.	1588	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,520.00
361	Politi Bassano, Bradwardine Thomas, Oresme Nicole, Pelacani Biagio	Politi Bassano, Bradwardine Thomas, Oresme Nicole, Pelacani Biagio, Questio de modalibus bassani politi. Tractatus proportionum introductorius ad calculationes fuisset. [...] Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum... (Al colophon:) Venetijs: mandato & sumpti	1505	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,520.00
127	De Chirico Giorgio	De Chirico Giorgio, Catalogo generale Giorgio De Chirico. Volume primo (-ottavo). [Milano]: Electa, s.d. [i.e. 1971-1987].	1971	EUR 60.00 - 60.00	EUR 2,394.00
315	Galilei Galileo, Lusvergh Giacomo, Lusvergh Domenico	Galilei Galileo, Lusvergh Giacomo, Lusvergh Domenico, Di Galileo Galilei il compasso geometrico adulto [...] Nouamente stampato, e dato in luce da Domenico Lusuergh fabricatore d'istromenti matematici... In Roma: per Dom. Ant. Ercole, 1698.	1698	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 2,268.00
235	Baliani Giovanni Battista	Baliani Giovanni Battista, De motu naturali gravium Genuae: ex typographia Io. Mariae Farroni, 1646.	1646	EUR 1,600.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 2,016.00
262	Cataldi Pietro Antonio, Durer Albrecht	Cataldi Pietro Antonio, Durer Albrecht, Trattato geometrico [...] Dove si esamina il modo di formare il pentagono sopra ad una linea retta, descritto da Alberto Durero... In Bologna: per Sebastiano Bonomi, 1620.	1620	EUR 1,600.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 2,016.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.