Back

Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Sessions 4 & 5

Auction Reports

Auction Name	Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Sessions 4 & 5	Total Sales (EUR)	442,071.00
Auction Date	March 05, 2026 - March 05, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	200,290.00
Sale Number	#68c	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	200,290.00
Total Lots	172
Sold Lots	149.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	251,470.00
% of Lots Sold	86.63%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	251,470.00
Unsold Lots	23	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	175.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
521	Galvani Luigi	Galvani Luigi, De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius. Bononiae: ex Typographia Instituti Scientiarum, 1791.	1791	EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00	EUR 75,600.00
397	Plato, Ficino Marsilio	Plato, Ficino Marsilio, [Opera. Tr: Marsilius Ficinus. Prohemium Marsilii ficini florentini in libros Platonis ad Laurentium Medicem virum magnanimum]. Timaeus. [con:] Critias. [Con:] De legibus. (Colophon alla carta ss10v: Impressum Florentie per Laurent	1484	EUR 45,000.00 - 45,000.00	EUR 56,700.00
479	Coronelli Vincenzo Maria	Coronelli Vincenzo Maria, Atlante Veneto. [Tomo I]. In Venetia: Domenico Padovan, 1690. (Al colophon:) In Venetia: appresso Girolamo Albrizzi, 1691.	1690	EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00	EUR 26,460.00
429	Boccaccio Giovanni	Boccaccio Giovanni, Il Decamerone [...] nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato. (Al colophon:) Impresso in Firenze per li heredi di Philippo di Giunta, nell'anno del Signore 1527 adi xiiij. del mese daprile [sic].	1527	EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 17,640.00
412	Champier Symphorien	Champier Symphorien, Practica nova in medicina... [Lione: s. e., 1509].	1509	EUR 400.00 - 400.00	EUR 15,120.00
553	Beketov Platon	Beketov Platon, Opisanie v litsakh torzhestva [...] v 1626 [...] pri brakosochetanii Gosudaria Tsaria Mikhaila Feodorovicha s Evdokieiu Luk'ianovnoiu iz roda Streshnevikh. [Descrizione delle nozze del Gran Principe Michail Feodorovich con Evdoika Lukianov	1810	EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 15,120.00
466	Vesalius Andreas	Vesalius Andreas, Anatomicarum Gabrielis Falloppii observationum examen. Venetiis: apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, 1564.	1564	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 11,340.00
489	Jansson Jan	Jansson Jan, Atlantis maioris quinta pars, orbem maritimum... editio novissima. Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1657.	1657	EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 11,340.00
477	Cardano Girolamo	Cardano Girolamo, Opera omnia: tam hactenus excusa, hic tamen aucta & emendata, quam nunquam alias visa ac primum ex auctoris ipsius autographis eruta cura Caroli Sponii... Lugduni: sumptibus Ioannis Antonii Huguetan, & Marci Antonii Rauaud, 1663.	1663	EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 6,300.00
511	Apollonius Pergaeus, Halley Edmond	Apollonius Pergaeus, Halley Edmond, De sectione rationis libri duo ex Arabico Msto. Latine versi. Accedunt ejusdem De sectione spatii libri duo restituti. [...] Opera & studio Edmundi Halley... Oxonii: e Teatro Sheldoniano, 1706.	1706	EUR 800.00 - 800.00	EUR 6,300.00
515	Coronelli Vincenzo Maria	Coronelli Vincenzo Maria, Ducato di Ferrara, Comacchio, Bolognese, Cadinales Bononiae, Ducato della Mirandola, Romagna, Ravenna ricercata. [S. d. e. ma circa 1714].	1714	EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 6,300.00
534	Mercati Michele	Mercati Michele, Metallotheca Opus Posthumum. Romae: apud Jo. Mariam Salvioni, 1719.	1719	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 6,300.00
566	Vittadini Carlo	Vittadini Carlo, Monographia Tuberacearum... Mediolani: ex Typographia Felicis Rusconi, 1831.	1831	EUR 2,600.00 - 2,600.00	EUR 6,048.00
482	Ghetaldi Marino	Ghetaldi Marino, Restituta Apollonij Pergaei inclinationum geometria... Venetiis: apud Bernardum Iuntam (-Vincentium Fiorinam), 1607.	1607	EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 5,796.00
415	Athenaeus Naucratita	Athenaeus Naucratita, Deipnosophistae... (Al colophon:) Venetiis: apud Aldum, et Andream socerum, mense Augusto 1514.	1514	EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,040.00
441	De Vieri Francesco	De Vieri Francesco, Discorso [...] Intorno a' dimonii, volgarmente chiamati spiriti... In Fiorenza: appresso Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1576.	1576	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 5,040.00
396	Suetonius Tranquillus Gaius	Suetonius Tranquillus Gaius, [Vitae XII Caesarum. Add: Ausonius: Versus]. De vita XII Caesarum liber primus [- duodecimus]. (Al colophon:) 1480. [Venezia: tipografo del Valla 1480 (H 15809) (Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis?)].	1480	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 4,788.00
405	Marchesinus Johannes	Marchesinus Johannes, Mamotrectus super Bibliam. (Al colophon:) Impressum Venetijs die 18 Junij 1498.	1498	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 4,536.00
400		[Herbarius Latinus]. Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum. (Al colophon:) Vincentiae: Magistrum Leonardum de Basiliea & Guilielmum de Papia Socios. Anno salutis. M.cccc.lxxxxi. (1491) die. xxvii. men Octob.	1491	EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 4,410.00
539	Robert de Vaugondy Didier	Robert de Vaugondy Didier, Atlas universel... A Paris: chez Delamarche geographe, [1797 circa?].	1797	EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,284.00
398	Vergilius Maro Publius	Vergilius Maro Publius, Opera. Con i commenti di Servio, Donato e Landino. (Al colophon:) Florentie impressum [Tipografia del Virgilio, C 6061 = Bartolomeo dei libri] xv calen. aprilis 1487 [- 1488].	1487	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 4,032.00
541	Seutter Georg Matthaus	Seutter Georg Matthaus, Atlas minor... [Augsburg?]: [Seutter Matthaus], [1756 circa?].	1756	EUR 3,200.00 - 3,200.00	EUR 4,032.00
554	Bertoloni Antonio	Bertoloni Antonio, Flora italica, sistens plantas in Italia et in insulis circumstantibus sponte nascentes. Bologna: [Riccardo Masi], 1833-1854.	1833	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 4,032.00
478	Chacon Alfonso	Chacon Alfonso, Vitae, et res gestae pontificum Romanorum [...] Tomus primus (-quartus). Romae: cura, et sumptib. Philippi, et Ant. de Rubeis, 1677.	1677	EUR 800.00 - 800.00	EUR 3,780.00
444	Durante Castore	Durante Castore, Herbario nuovo... In Roma: appresso Bartholomeo Bonsadino, & Tito Diani, 1585.	1585	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 3,750.00

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.