Il Ponte: Antique Books and Livres d'Artistes, 695, Milan

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 25, 2025 - February 26, 2025

Page Size: 362 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	MADAME DE POMPADOUR (1721-1764)] - SANNAZZARO, Jacopo (1457-1530)	Le opere volgari.	Padua	1723	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 3,276.00
2	CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo (1503-1562)	La retorica.	Venice	1559	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 882.00
3	[LELOIR, Maurice (1853-1940); illustratore] - HURTADO DE MENDOZA, Diego (1503-1575)	Vie de la Lazarille de Tormes.	Paris	1886	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4	ROBIDA Albert (1848-1926)	Voyage de fiancailles au XXe siecle.	Paris	1892	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
5	MACHIAVELLI, Nicolo (1469-1527)	Libro della arte della guerra.	Florence	1529	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 12,600.00
6	[CONGO] - ROMANO, Giovanni Francesco (m. 1646)	Breve relatione del successo della missione de Frati Min. Capuccini.. al Regno del Congo.	Rome, Parma	1649	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 1,890.00
7	CHACON, Alfonso (1540-1599) Girolamo, MUZIANO (1528-1592) Carlo, LOSI (XVIII secolo)	Columnae Trajani ortographia.	Rome	1773	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 3,024.00
8	ZANONI, Giacomo (1615-1682)	Istoria botanica.	Bologna	1675	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 3,528.00
9	ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598)	Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio.	Antwerp	s.d. [1570 ma dopo].	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,016.00
10	MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599)	Orbis terrae compendiosa Descriptio.	[Duisburg]	1587 [ma dopo].	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,386.00
11	MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599)	[I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia.	Amsterdam	S.d. [ca. 1633].	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,520.00
12	DE WIT, Frederick (1630-1706)	Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula auctore.	Amsterdam	[America, Africa e Asia datate al 1660].	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 5,670.00
13	DE WIT, Frederick (1630-1706)	[I continenti] - Nova Totius Americae descriptio; Nova Africa descriptio; Asiae Nova descriptio; Nova Europa descriptio.	Amsterdam	[America, Africa e Asia datate al 1660 e Europa senza data].	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,410.00
14	DALI, Salvador (1904-1989) Giovanni BOCCACCIO (1313-1375)	Le Decameron.	Paris	1972	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,158.00
15	DALI, Salvador (1904-1989) William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)	Romeo e Giulietta.	Milan	1975	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 6,300.00
16	PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973) Robert DESNOS (1900-1945)	Contree.	Paris	1944	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 2,394.00
17	MATISSE, Henri (1869-1954)	Verve. Revue artistique et litteraire. Vol. IX, Nos 35 et 36.	Paris	1958	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 4,410.00
18	VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto')	Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores.	Venice	1742-51.	EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 11,340.00
19	CARLEVARIIS, Luca (1663-1730)	Le fabriche e vedute di Venezia.	[Venice	ca. 1703].	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 15,120.00
20	UGHI, Ludovico (attivo c. 1700-1740)	[Iconografica rappresentazione della inclita citta di Venezia consacrata al reggio serenissimo domino veneto].	Venice	[1729?].	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 6,300.00
21	BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547)	Prose..nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua.	Venice	1525	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,268.00
22	[LEGATURA - BEMBO, CASTIGLIONE et al.] -	Carmina quinque illustrium poetarum.	Florence	1552	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,260.00
23	BANDELLO, Matteo (1485-1561)	La prima [-terza] parte de le novelle.	Lucca	1554	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 23,940.00
24	GIRALDI CINZIO, Giovanbattista (1504-1573)	De gli Hecatommithi.	Mondovi	1565	EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,764.00
25	BUCHOZ, Pierre Joseph (1731-1807)	Collection Precieuse et Enluminee des Fleurs de la Chine et de l' Europe.	Paris	[1776].	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 12,600.00

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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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