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Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books and Graphics

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Auction Name Books and Graphics Total Sales (EUR) 345,212.50
Auction Date July 02, 2018 - July 02, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 180,540.00
Sale Number #25a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 361,080.00
Total Lots 454
Sold Lots 317 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 271,460.00
% of Lots Sold 69.82% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 542,920.00
Unsold Lots 137 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 63.58%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
49 Collot Georges Henri Victor

Voyage dans l'Amérique septentrionale, ou description des pays arrosés par le Mississipi, L'Ohio, le Missouri et autres rivières affluentes [...] Avec un atlas de 36 cartes, plans, vues et figures [...]. Tome premier (-second).

1826 EUR 60,000.00 - 120,000.00 EUR 81,250.00
387 Galilei Galileo [da]

Lettera di Galileo Galilei contenente il giudizio / sopra l'Ariosto, ed il Tasso'. Missiva inviata a Francesco Rinuccini, Venezia (copia dell'epoca).

1640 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
91

Giornale per i bambini.

1881-1886. EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
111

Raccolta di 25 orazioni.

XVI secolo. EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 6,250.00
48 Cieza de Leòn Pedro

Lopez de Gómara Francisco, Historia, over Cronica del Gran Regno del Perù, con la decrittione di tutte le Provincie, e costumi, e riti [...]. Parte prima.

1564 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,750.00
9 Pico della Mirandola Giovanni

Opera omnia.

1498 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
74 Salmon Thomas

Lo stato presente di tutti i paesi e popoli del mondo naturale, politico, e morale [...]. Volume I (-XXVI).

1731-1766. EUR 1,400.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 5,500.00
238 Malavolti Orlando

Historia [...] de' fatti, e guerre de' Sanesi, cosi esterne, come civili. Seguite dall'origine della lor città, fino all'anno 1555.

1599 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
346

Raccolta di oltre 150 autografi di regnanti, musicisti, attori e attrici, cantanti, scenografi, politici, editori, letterati, artisti ecc.

fine XIX-inizio XX secolo. EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 5,000.00
11 Landsberg Johann Justus [da]

Centum & quinquaginta meditationes vitam domini Jesu...

inizi del XVI secolo. EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,250.00
88

Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d'America.

1797 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
7 Plinius Secundus Gaius

Historia naturalis [Ed: Johannes Britannicus].

1496 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
222 Kircher Athanasius

Arithmologia sive de abditis numerorum mysteriis...

1665 EUR 1,600.00 - 3,200.00 EUR 4,000.00
101

Les Heures nostre Dame a lusage de Rome nouivellement translatees de latin an françois...

1508 EUR 260.00 - 520.00 EUR 3,750.00
103

Opera nuovamente composta sopra la mistica scala del Patriarcha Iacob: per la quale spiritualmente si contempla la corona della gloriosa vergine Maria: la quale contiene in se gradi sexantatre & tabernacoli septe...

1512 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
66 Medina Pedro de

L'arte del Navegar, in laqual si contengono le regole, dechiarationi, secreti, & avisi, alla bona navegation necessarij [...] tradotta de lingua spagnola in volgar italiano...

1554 EUR 1,400.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 3,250.00
159 Buonmattei Benedetto

Descrizion delle feste fatte in Firenze per la canonizzazione di S.to Andrea Corsini.

1632 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
450 Vallisneri Antonio

Lettera autografa firmata inviata al matematico Vittorio Francesco Stancari. Con alcuni disegni anatomici compilati dall'autore.

1701 ? EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,250.00
191 Fontana Fulvio

I pregi della Toscana nell'imprese piu segnalate de' Cavalieri di Santo Stefano...

1701 EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,000.00
215 Horatius Flaccus Quintus

Poemata.

1553 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,000.00
219 Iuvenalis Decimus Iunius

Persius Flaccus Aulus, Iuvenalis. Persius.

1501 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,000.00
395 Giovio Paolo

Lunga lettera autografa (?) firmata 'Vescovo Jovio' inviata al nunzio apostolico Rodolfo Pio da Carpi.

1535 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 3,000.00
96

La Bibbia. Cioè i Libri del Vecchio, e del Nuovo Testamento.

1607 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 2,750.00
1 Ausmo Nicolaus (de)

Supplementum Summae Pisanellae. [Segue:] Astesanus: Canones poenitentiales.

1474 EUR 1,800.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 2,500.00
20 De Matteis Vincenzo

Viaggio [...] della compagnia di Gesù per Costantinopoli...

Secolo XVIII. EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,500.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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