Finarte: NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory, 92925, Rome

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 29, 2025 - September 29, 2025

Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Gregorio I Papa	Gregorio I Papa - Moralia, sive Expositio in Job, 1496	Venice	Anno domini 1496 xi mensis aprilis.	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,340.00
2	Giovanni Albino	Giovanni Albino - Ioannis Albini Lucani De gestis regum Neapo. ab Aragonia qui extant, 1589	Naples	1589	EUR 120.00 - 140.00	EUR 442.20
3	Cosimo (1646) Bartoli	Cosimo Bartoli - Universal Historical Discourses, 1582	Genoa	1582	EUR 200.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
4	Pino Giovan Battista	Pino Giovan Battista - Reasoning about the donkey, 1549	[Naples	between 1560 and 1563].	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00	EUR 3,216.00
5	Giulio DalCesare	Giulio Cesare Capaccio - Of the Companies, 1592	Naples	1592	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 670.00
6	Giovanni Battista della Porta	Giovanni Battista Della Porta - Villae I. Baptistae Portae neapolitani. Books XII, 1592	Frankfurt		EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,005.00
7	Prospero Caravita	Prospero Caravita - Pragmaticae edicta regiaeq. sanctiones Neapolitani reigns in vnum congestae, suis distinctae titulis, miroque order illustrated. For ... Prosperum Carauitam patritium Ebolitanum, 1581	Naples	1581	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 1,608.00
8	Marino Freccia	Marino Freccia - De subfeudis baronum, & inuestituris feudorum, 1579	Venice	1579	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 402.00
9	Scipione Mazzella	Scipione Mazzella - The Lives of the Kings of Naples. With their life-size portraits., 1594	Naples	1594	EUR 200.00 - 220.00	EUR 1,005.00
10	Camillo Pellegrino	Camillo Pellegrino - Reply...to the response of the Accademia della Crusca, 1585	Vico Equense	1585	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 375.20
11	Paolo Regio	Paolo Regio - The lives of the holy father William, founder of the church and order of Monte Vergine. And of St. Amato, his disciple, bishop of the city of Nusco., 1584	Vico Equense		EUR 240.00 - 260.00	EUR 402.00
12	Marco Antonio Sorgente	Marco Antonio Sorgente - De Neapoli illustrated Liber unicus, 1597	Naples	1597	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 469.00
13	Luigi Tansillo	Luigi Tansillo - The Tears of Saint Peter, 1585	Vico Equense	1585	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 1,340.00
14	Torquato Tasso	Torquato Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered, by Mr. Torquato Tasso; drawn from the original, with additions of what is missing in other editions, and with the allegory of the same author., 1582	Naples	1582	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
15	Sigismondo Sicola	Sigismondo Sicola - The glorious nobility in the life of St. Aspreno, the first Christian and the first bishop of the city of Naples, 1696	Naples	1696	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 160.80
16	Biagio Aldimari	Biagio Aldimari - Historical memoirs of various noble families, 1691	Naples	1691	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,072.00
17	Enrico Bacco	Enrico Bacco - The Kingdom of Naples divided into twelve Provinces , 1620	Naples	1620	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 469.00
18	Carlo Borrelli	Carlo Borrelli - Defense of the Neapolitan nobility, 1655	Rome	1655	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 268.00
19	Carlo de Lellis	Carlo de Lellis - Speeches of the noble families of the kingdom of Naples, 1654	Naples	1654-71.	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 536.00
20	Enrico Bacco	Enrico Bacco - Brief description of the Kingdom of Naples divided into twelve provinces, 1644	Naples	1644	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 536.00
21	Francesco Balzano	Francesco Balzano - Ancient Herculaneum or the Torre del Greco saved from oblivion, 1688	Naples	1688	EUR 350.00 - 450.00	EUR 603.00
22	Pompeo Sarnelli	Pompeo Sarnelli - Chronological Memoirs of the Bishops and Archbishops of the Holy Church of Benevento , 1691	Naples	1691	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 160.80
23	Antonio Bulifon	Antonio Bulifon - Compendium of the lives of the Kings of Naples with life-size portraits, 1688	Naples	1688	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 536.00
24	Antonio Bulifon	Antonio Bulifon - Memorable historical, political and erudite letters, 1698	Pozzoli	1698	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 348.40
25	Callimaco	Callimaco - Callimachi Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta - Hymnos Observationes, 1697	Amsterdam	1697	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold

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