Finarte: Books, Autographs and Prints, 111225, Rome

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 12, 2025 - November 12, 2025

Page Size: 397 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Dante Alighieri - Cristoforo Landino	Dante Alighieri - Cristoforo Landino (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - Commentary by Christophoro Landino Fiorentino on the Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet, 1481	Florence	1481	EUR 20,000.00 - 40,000.00	EUR 39,300.00
2	Dante Alighieri	Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Convivium, 1490top	Florence	20 September 1490.	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 24,890.00
3	Dante Alighieri	Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Comedy, with commentary by Cristoforo Landino, 1484	Venice	1484	EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 3,484.00
4	Ubertinus de Casali	Ubertinus de Casali - Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi, 1485top	Venice	12 Mar. 1485	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00	EUR 2,680.00
5	Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus	Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465 top	Subiaco	29 October 1465.	EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	Not Sold
6	Francesco Petrarca	Francesco Petrarca - Hoc est preclarum Testamentum Illustri poete Francisci Petrarca, 1498top	Venice	[after 1498].	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
7	Dante Alighieri	Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - Dante's terza rime, 1502top	[Lyon	after 1502].	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
8	Aristotele - Tommaso d'Aquino	Aristotele - Tommaso d'Aquino - S. Thomae Aquinatis In octo Physicorum Aristotelis libros commentaria - In Libros Aristotelis De Coelo et Mundo Commentaria, 1551	Venetians: apud Iuntas	1551	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
9	Matteo Bandello	Matteo Bandello - The first [-fourth] part of Bandello's novels, 1554	Lucca	1544	EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
10	Philippe de Commines	Philippe de Commines - The memoirs of Messire Philippe De Commines, Chevalier, Seigneur d'Argenton, on the principal facts & gestures of Louis Onzieme, 1561	Paris	1561	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 7,860.00
11	Loredan Leonardo, Doge	Venice's commercial policy, an extraordinary document of Renaissance economics	Venice's commercial policy	1509	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
12	Tolomeo, Claudio	Tolomeo, Claudio - The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, With some comments and additions made by Sebastiano, munstero Alamann, With not only the ancient and modern tables usually published, but also new ones added by Messer Iacopo Gastaldo Pia	Venice	1548 [October 1547].	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 5,360.00
13	Dante Alighieri	Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri with various annotations and copious adorned copperplates, 1757	Venice	1757-1758.	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 3,752.00
15	Torquato Tasso	One of the most beautiful illustrated books of the 18th century	Venice	1745	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,422.00
16	Giambattista Vico	Giambattista Vico - Principles of new science, 1725top	Naples	1725	EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 34,060.00
17	Dante Alighieri	Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy, 1809	Milan	1809	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
18	Giuseppe Verdi	Extremely rare autographed musical page from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, with his dedication to the Neapolitan painter Mancinelli		with dedication	EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 18,340.00
19	Napoleone Bonaparte	Napoleone Bonaparte - Napoleonic dioramas, 1810		1810	EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,412.00
20	Semyon Korsakov	Semyon Korsakov - Opening a new investigation procedure into many machines to compare ideas. with two planches, 1832top	St. Petersburg	1832	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 17,030.00
21	Alexander Pushkin	Alexander Pushkin - Borus Godunov, 1831top	St Petersburg: at the Press of the Department of Public Education	1831	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 19,650.00
22	Quinto Orazio Flacco	Quinto Orazio Flacco - Poemata omnia. Centimetrum Marij Seruij. Annotationes Aldi Manutij Romani in Horatium, 1527	Venice	September 1527.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 442.20
23		Data statute, criminality and civility totius communitatis Riperiae Lacus Baenaci Brixiensis, 1536	Venice	1536	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 1,340.00
24	Elia Capriolo	Elia Capriolo - Twelve books of Brescian histories. In which the origin and antiquity can be seen [..] until the year 1585, 1585	Brescia	1585	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 670.00
25		Deed of sale, 1562		1562	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 268.00
26	Francesco Mantovano	Francesco Mantovano - Second [-third] book by Lautrecho. Interloqutors Milan Pope Leo as a soul of a spy & the author, 1522	[Milan	not before 1522].	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,340.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.