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Aste Bolaffi

Auction House Name Aste Bolaffi
Site URL https://www.astebolaffi.it
About Us Bolaffi, collections since 1890. Bolaffi's history started that year, when a very young Alberto Bolaffi, born into an important family of precious stone and ostrich feather merchants, decided to abandon the family tradition with pioneering spirit to embark on the business of philately. His devotion was continued with legendary passion by his son Giulio and then with brave initiative by his grandson Alberto, at the helm of the company today while the fourth generation is preparing to bring renewed ingenuity to the company business. Faithful to the motto "History for us is a collector's item", Bolaffi in the meantime became a limited-liability company and today in addition to all sectors of stamp-collecting, encompasses the entire sphere of collections in Italy and worldwide. With a staff of over one hundred, we still firmly believe in developing the most pleasant way of spending one's leisure time in direct contact with the objects and tokens that have made the history of mankind.
Who do I contact if I have questions? We can be reached by phone, fax and email: Tel. +39.011.55.76.300 fax +39.011.55.76.320. aste@bolaffi.it
City London
Country United Kingdom
Zipcode W1J 6BD
Contact Number 39-011-557-6300
Buyer's Fee On first € 100,000 25%; from € 100,001 to 250,000 22.5%; from € 250,001 to 500,000 20%; then 18% from 500,001
Consigner's Fee

AUCTION LIST


  • <b><center>DOYLE<BR>Rare Books, Autographs & Maps<br>July 23, 2025</center></b> <b>DOYLE, July 23:</b> WALL, BERNHARDT. <i>Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples.</i> Estimate $300-500 <b>DOYLE, July 23:</b> STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. <i>The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909.</i> New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000 <b>DOYLE, July 23:</b> [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800 <b>DOYLE, July 23:</b> [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. <i>Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions.</i> San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000. <b>DOYLE, July 23:</b> TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. <i>Anna Karénina ... in eight parts.</i> New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600 <b>DOYLE, July 23:</b> ROWLING, J.K. <i>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.</i> London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800
    DOYLE
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    July 23, 2025
    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800
  • <center><b>Freeman’s | Hindman<br>Western Manuscripts and Miniatures<br>July 8, 2025</b></center> <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8.</b> FRANCESCO PETRARCH (b. Arezzo, 20 July 1304; d. Arqua Petrarca, 19 July 1374). $20,000-30,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8.</b> CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF THE VITAE IMPERATORUM (active Milan, 1431-1459). $15,000-20,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8.</b> CIRCLE OF ATTAVANTE DEGLI ATTAVANTI (GABRIELLO DI VANTE) (active Florence, c. 1452-c. 1520/25). $15,000-20,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8.</b> FOLLOWER OF HERMAN SCHEERE (active London, c. 1405-1425). $15,000-20,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8.</b> An exceptionally rare, illuminated music leaf from a Mozarabic Antiphonal with sister leaves mostly in museum collections. $11,500-14,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8.</b> Exceptional leaf from a prestigious Antiphonary by a leading illuminator of the late Duecento. $11,500-14,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8.</b> CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF MS REID 33 and SELWERD ABBEY SCRIPTORIUM (AGNES MARTINI?) (active The Netherlands, Groningen, c. 1468-1510). $10,000-15,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8.</b> Previously unknown illumination from one of the most renowned Gothic Choir Book sets of the Middle Ages. $6,000-8,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman
    Western Manuscripts and Miniatures
    July 8, 2025
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. FRANCESCO PETRARCH (b. Arezzo, 20 July 1304; d. Arqua Petrarca, 19 July 1374). $20,000-30,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF THE VITAE IMPERATORUM (active Milan, 1431-1459). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF ATTAVANTE DEGLI ATTAVANTI (GABRIELLO DI VANTE) (active Florence, c. 1452-c. 1520/25). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. FOLLOWER OF HERMAN SCHEERE (active London, c. 1405-1425). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. An exceptionally rare, illuminated music leaf from a Mozarabic Antiphonal with sister leaves mostly in museum collections. $11,500-14,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. Exceptional leaf from a prestigious Antiphonary by a leading illuminator of the late Duecento. $11,500-14,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF MS REID 33 and SELWERD ABBEY SCRIPTORIUM (AGNES MARTINI?) (active The Netherlands, Groningen, c. 1468-1510). $10,000-15,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. Previously unknown illumination from one of the most renowned Gothic Choir Book sets of the Middle Ages. $6,000-8,000.
  • <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper <br> 17th July 2025</center></b> <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Lucianus Samosatensis. <i>Dialogoi, editio princeps,</i> second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000. <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Boccaccio (Giovanni). <i>Il Decamerone,</i> Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000. <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000. <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Bible, English. <i>The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New,</i> Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000. <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Bond (Michael). <i>A Bear Called Paddington,</i> first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000. <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper <br> 17th July 2025</center></b> <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Yeats (William Butler). <i>The Secret Rose,</i> first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000. <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). <i>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,</i> bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000. <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). <i>Fraternity,</i> one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000. <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000. <b>Forum, July 17:</b> Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. <i>De gli Elementi,</i> Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern<br>Now through July 10, 2025</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, Ending July 10:</b> Book of Hours by the Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht, Use of Sarum, in Latin, Southern Netherlands (Bruges), c.1450. £20,000 to £30,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Ending July 10:</b> Albert Einstein. Autograph letter signed, to Attilio Palatino, on his research into General Relativity, 12 May 1929. £12,000 to £18,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Ending July 10:</b> John Gould. <i>The Birds of Europe,</i> [1832-] 1837, 5 volumes, contemporary half morocco, subscriber’s copy. £40,000 to £60,000. <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern<br>Now through July 10, 2025</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, Ending July 10:</b> Ian Fleming. A collection of James Bond first editions, 8 volumes in all. £8,000 to £12,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Ending July 10:</b> J.K. Rowling. <i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,</i> 1997, first edition, hardback issue. £50,000 to £70,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Ending July 10:</b> J.R.R. Tolkien. Autograph letter signed, to Amy Ronald, on Pauline Baynes's map of Middle Earth, 1970. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern
    Now through July 10, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Book of Hours by the Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht, Use of Sarum, in Latin, Southern Netherlands (Bruges), c.1450. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Albert Einstein. Autograph letter signed, to Attilio Palatino, on his research into General Relativity, 12 May 1929. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: John Gould. The Birds of Europe, [1832-] 1837, 5 volumes, contemporary half morocco, subscriber’s copy. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern
    Now through July 10, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Ian Fleming. A collection of James Bond first editions, 8 volumes in all. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: J.R.R. Tolkien. Autograph letter signed, to Amy Ronald, on Pauline Baynes's map of Middle Earth, 1970. £7,000 to £10,000.
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