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Aste Bolaffi

Auction Info

Auction Name: Rare Books and Autographs
Auction Date: 06/18/2025 - 06/19/2025
Sale Number: #733
Total Lots: 949
Sold Lots: 643
Lots Sold: 67.76%
Unsold Lots: 306

Total Sales (EUR): 779,656.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: Inf%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
115		Macchina Enigma, Model K, Heimsoeth und Rinke, 1936-44.		Not Available	EUR 95,000.00
17	Ortelius, Abraham.	THEATRUM ODER SCHAWBUCH DES ERDTKREIJS.	1580 e 1584.	Not Available	EUR 22,500.00
18	Mercator, Gerard.	ATLAS SIVE COSMOGRAPHICAE MEDITATIONES DE FABRICA MUNDI ET FABRICATI FIGURA.	1630	Not Available	EUR 20,000.00
2	Regiomontano.	EPYTOMA IN ALMAGESTUM PTOLOMEI.	1496	Not Available	EUR 18,750.00
7	Palladio, Andrea.	I QUATTRO LIBRI DELL'ARCHITETTURA.	1570	Not Available	EUR 18,750.00
1	Regiomontano.	KALENDARIUM.	1476	Not Available	EUR 17,500.00
6	Platina, Bartolomeo.	DI PLATINA DE LA HONESTA VOLUPTATE: & VALITUDINE.	1494	Not Available	EUR 13,750.00
54	Turgot, Michel Etienne.	PLAN DE PARIS, COMMENCe L'ANNeE 1734, DESSINe ET GRAVe SOUS LES ORDRES DE MESSIRE MICHEL ETIENNE TURGOT.	1739	Not Available	EUR 13,750.00
174	[Scuola di Guangzhou].	Grande veduta a volo d'uccello (1,50 x 3,50 m) di Macao con al centro il toponimo "Aomen", nome in cinese mandarino della penisola.		Not Available	EUR 12,500.00
26	Scappi, Bartolomeo.	OPERA DI M. BARTOLOMEO SCAPPI, CUOCO SECRETO DI PAPA PIO QUINTO, DIVISA IN SEI LIBRI.	1570	Not Available	EUR 10,000.00
24	Zatta, Antonio.	ATLANTE NOVISSIMO, ILLUSTRATO ED ACCRESCIUTO SULLE OSSERVAZIONI, E SCOPERTE FATTE DAI PIU CELEBRI E PIU RECENTI GEOGRAFI.	1775-1785.	Not Available	EUR 10,000.00
4	[Bibbia].	BIBLIA LATINA.	1486	Not Available	EUR 10,000.00
28	Giegher, Mattia.	LI TRE TRATTATI.	1639	Not Available	EUR 9,062.50
49	Saint-Non, Jean Claude Richard de.	VOYAGE PITTORESQUE OU DESCRIPTION DES ROYAUMES DE NAPLES ET DE SICILE.	1781-86.	Not Available	EUR 8,125.00
113	Curie, Marie nata Maria Sklodowska.	Raro insieme di quattro lettere autografe firmate della fisica polacca naturalizzata francese, prima donna ad essere insignita nel 1903 del premio Nobel e tra i cinque vincitori di Nobel ad averne ricevuti due (il secondo nel 1911 per la chimica).		Not Available	EUR 7,500.00
182	Zatta, Antonio.	ATLANTE NOVISSIMO, ILLUSTRATO ED ACCRESCIUTO SULLE OSSERVAZIONI, E SCOPERTE FATTE DAI PIU CELEBRI E PIU RECENTI GEOGRAFI.	1775-1784.	Not Available	EUR 7,500.00
146	Swinburne, John.	TRAVELS IN THE TWO SICILIES, THE YEARS 1777, 1778, 1779, AND 1780.	1783-85.	Not Available	EUR 6,250.00
107	Dali, Salvador.	BIBLIA SACRA VULGATAE EDITIONIS.	1967	Not Available	EUR 5,500.00
106	Dali, Salvador.	LA DIVINA COMMEDIA.	1963-64.	Not Available	EUR 5,250.00
19	Mercator, Gerard.	ATLAS DE NOVO PLURIMIS IN LOCIS EMENDATUS.	1632	Not Available	EUR 5,250.00

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Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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