Pandolfini: Books, Manuscripts & Autographs, 1394, Florence

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 18, 2025 - November 18, 2025

Page Size: 219 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	Lolli, Giambattista	Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sopra il giuoco degli scacchi	Bologna	1763	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 589.50
127	Mercuriale, Girolamo	De Arte Gymnastica	Amsterdam	1672	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 720.50
128	Fortin de Gramont, Francois	Les Ruses innocentes	Amsterdam	1695	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 327.50
129		Tempesta, Antonio, Imagines Agierum ac praeliorum veteris Testamenti	Roma	1613	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,048.00
130	Plinio il giovane	Epistolarum	[Parigi]	1533	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 655.00
131		La piu bella raccolta di stampe delle antichita d'Ercolano			EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 4,585.00
132	Vallisneri, Antonio	De' corpi marini che su' monti si trovano	Venezia	1721	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 262.00
133	Fabris, Pietro	Campi Phlegraei		1776	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 655.00
134		Description de l'Egypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'expedition de l'armee francaise	Parigi	1809--1829, 1820-1829	EUR 35,000.00 - 40,000.00	EUR 44,540.00
135	Allioni, Carlo	Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii	Torino	1785	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 7,598.00
136	Trecco, Giovanni Battista	Coltivazione e governo del lino marzuolo	Vicenza	1792	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 262.00
137		Prima edizione della prima opera di John Gould con gli sfondi non colorati			EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 8,515.00
138		Famiglie celebri italiane di Pompeo Litta Biumi			EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,144.00
139		Memorie delle famiglie nobili delle province meridionali d'Italia del conte Bernardo Candida Gonzaga An essential reference source for genealogical and noble studies on Southern Italy			EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,489.00
140	Leonati, Giovanni Antonio	De somno, & somnio tractatio	Padova	1764	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 720.50
141	Tansillo, Luigi	La balia poemetto	Vercelli	1767	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 393.00
142	Grimani, Francesco	Ordini ... per il buon governo, e regola dell'Armata	[Venezia]	[1730]	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 1,179.00
143	Sansovino, Francesco	Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare	Venezia	1581	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,179.00
144	Albrizzi, Giambattista	Forestiere illuminato	Venezia	1740	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,572.00
145		Storia veneta		Secolo XVIII	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 720.50
146	Frizzi, Antonio	Guida del forestiere per la citta di Ferrara	Ferrara	1787	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 524.00
147	Bussi, Feliciano	Istoria della citta di Viterbo	Roma	1742	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 655.00
148	Rossini, Luigi	Le Antichita dei contorni di Roma	Roma	1824-26	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 2,882.00
149	Rondinini, Filippo	De Sanctis Martyribus Johanne et Paulo, eorumque Basilica in urbe Roma	Roma	1707	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 393.00
150		2 vedute del Colosseo di Alessandro Specchi			EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 524.00

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.