The Department that deals with auctions of antique books, engravings and manuscripts was born in 2004 and since then it records important sales both for Italian and foreign authors.
Antique and rare books, manuscripts, engravings, incunabula, books printed in the Sixteen Century, collectible books and first editions are regularly offered in the book sales organized by the dedicated Department. Although the books presented in our auctions space between various subjects, there is a preference for literature, science, geography and astronomy.
The book auctions organized by Cambi are therefore important occasions for collectors and book lovers to acquire works that would otherwise be impossible to find on the art market or in antiquarian bookshops.
A wide selection of catalogs is dedicated to engravings by old masters, a category for which excellent results have often been obtained, both for Italian and foreign authors.
A marked tendency in book auctions that we have been able to observe in the last few years is the attention and interest turned in the direction of historical and contemporary photography, of artists' books with inserts in original graphics, but also for first editions of 20th century literature books and autographs.
Among the lots in the book auctions that have registered the greatest interest, we can't help but mention a few: Giovan Battista Piranesi, Nineteen tomes of the engraved work, containing a thousand etchings, sold for €200,000; Cesare Francesco Cassini, Preparatory manuscript of the great map of France of 1738, sold for €67. 000; Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia I of 1514, an engraving regarded as one of the most accomplished results of Albrecht Dürer's work as an engraver, sold for €42,600; and the first edition of Alessandro Manzoni's masterpiece The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi), a three-volume work preserved in a box and with the original paperbacks, sold for €23,850.
Are you in possession of antique books, manuscripts, first edition books, geographical atlases, autographs or incunabula that you would like to sell? Would you like to receive an valuation for books you possess? The experts of the Department of Books are always at your disposal for free evaluations without obligation for your works. The purpose of the valuation is to express a commercial value; if the books and other works on paper we value suitable to be included in the catalogs of antique book auctions, a viewing in original is necessary.
Would you like to buy antique books, manuscripts, autographs and other precious works on paper? Our experts are always at your disposal for personalized advice and suggestions on how to complete an antique book collection and enrich your library with works of high literary, cultural and economic value.
Antique and rare books, manuscripts, engravings, incunabula, books printed in the Sixteen Century, collectible books and first editions are regularly offered in the book sales organized by the dedicated Department. Although the books presented in our auctions space between various subjects, there is a preference for literature, science, geography and astronomy.
The book auctions organized by Cambi are therefore important occasions for collectors and book lovers to acquire works that would otherwise be impossible to find on the art market or in antiquarian bookshops.
A wide selection of catalogs is dedicated to engravings by old masters, a category for which excellent results have often been obtained, both for Italian and foreign authors.
A marked tendency in book auctions that we have been able to observe in the last few years is the attention and interest turned in the direction of historical and contemporary photography, of artists' books with inserts in original graphics, but also for first editions of 20th century literature books and autographs.
Among the lots in the book auctions that have registered the greatest interest, we can't help but mention a few: Giovan Battista Piranesi, Nineteen tomes of the engraved work, containing a thousand etchings, sold for €200,000; Cesare Francesco Cassini, Preparatory manuscript of the great map of France of 1738, sold for €67. 000; Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia I of 1514, an engraving regarded as one of the most accomplished results of Albrecht Dürer's work as an engraver, sold for €42,600; and the first edition of Alessandro Manzoni's masterpiece The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi), a three-volume work preserved in a box and with the original paperbacks, sold for €23,850.
Are you in possession of antique books, manuscripts, first edition books, geographical atlases, autographs or incunabula that you would like to sell? Would you like to receive an valuation for books you possess? The experts of the Department of Books are always at your disposal for free evaluations without obligation for your works. The purpose of the valuation is to express a commercial value; if the books and other works on paper we value suitable to be included in the catalogs of antique book auctions, a viewing in original is necessary.
Would you like to buy antique books, manuscripts, autographs and other precious works on paper? Our experts are always at your disposal for personalized advice and suggestions on how to complete an antique book collection and enrich your library with works of high literary, cultural and economic value.
Department Auctions
Live auction 820
Old and Rare Books
tue 28 November 2023
Live auction 725
Old and Rare Books. Envravings
tue 22 November 2022
Live auction 562
Rare Books
thu 15 July 2021
Live auction 477
Engravings, Views, Maps and Rare Books
thu 11 June 2020
Live auction 382
Rare Landscapes, Maps and Books
wed 3 April 2019
Live auction 385
Photography
wed 5 December 2018
The Best Awards
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista ( Mogliano Veneto, 1720 - Venezia, 1778) Diciannove tomi dell'opera incisa, contenenti un migliaio di acqueforti. Seconda [..]
€ 200.100,00
Amount including auction fees
Tucidide
Thucydides, Venezia, Aldo Manuzio, 1502
€ 87.600,00
Amount including auction fees
(Cesare Francesco Cassini) Description de la France
€ 67.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Durer (Norimberga 1471-1528) Melancolia I (1514)
€ 42.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Giambattista Vico
Principi di una scienza nuova Principj di una scienza nuova intorno al [..]
€ 37.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Duval Cartes de geographie
€ 35.100,00
Amount including auction fees
Giolfi, Antonio - Torricelli, Giuseppe - Guidotti, Gian Lorenzo - Rivi [..]
€ 26.350,00
Amount including auction fees
Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Leida,1606-Amsterdam,1669) Cristo guar [..]
€ 25.100,00
Amount including auction fees
Alessandro Manzoni I Promessi Sposi
€ 23.850,00
Amount including auction fees
Giovanni Domenico Cassini - Giacomo Filippo Maraldi Pensées astronomiq [..]
€ 22.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Blaeu, Johannes - Mortier, Pierre Nouveau theatre d'Italie ou descript [..]
€ 22.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Blaeu, Willem & Jan Novum Theatrum Pedemontii et Sabaudie sive accurat [..]
€ 20.725,00
Amount including auction fees
Duval Cartes de geographie
€ 18.850,00
Amount including auction fees
Johan Blaeu
Blaeu Johan Nouveau Theatre Du Piemont Et de La Savoye. Ou description exacte de leurs villes, palais, èglises, et principaux èdifices, etc. La Haye, [..]
€ 17.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Carlo Fontana
Templum Vaticanum et ipsius origo cum aedificiis maximè conspicuis ant [..]
€ 15.725,00
Amount including auction fees
Gaetano Petrioli - Petro Berrettino Cortonensi
Tabulae Anatomicae a celeberrimo pictore Petro Berrettino Cortonensi d [..]
€ 15.100,00
Amount including auction fees
(Giuridica Manoscritti)
€ 14.475,00
Amount including auction fees
Claes Jansz Vooght - Portolano Olandese dei Mari del Nord e del Medite [..]
€ 13.850,00
Amount including auction fees
Castiglione Baldesar
Il libro del Cortegiano Il libro del Cortegiano del conte Baldesar Cas [..]
€ 13.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Luigi Rossini Le antichità romane, raccolta delle più interessanti del [..]
€ 12.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Sacrobosco Giovanni Spaerae [!] mundi compendium foeliciter inchoat. N [..]
€ 12.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Pieter Bruegel il Vecchio. Petrus Von Merica(Pieter van der Heyden) da [..]
€ 11.975,00
Amount including auction fees
Amman Jost (Zurigo, 1539-Norimberga, 1591) Les quater parties du monde
€ 11.975,00
Amount including auction fees
Francesco Bianchini
Hesperi et phosphori nova phaenomena sive observationes circa planeta [..]
€ 11.975,00
Amount including auction fees
Jacopo Sannazzaro
Actij Synceri Sannazarii De partu Virginis. Lamentatio de morte Christ [..]
€ 11.975,00
Amount including auction fees
Visscher, Nicolai (De Wit-Blaeu-Janssonius etc) Atlas Minor sive geogr [..]
€ 10.725,00
Amount including auction fees
Poliziano Angelo
Omnia opera Angeli Politiani...Venezia, Aldus,1498
€ 10.725,00
Amount including auction fees
Lotter, Tobia Conrado Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographichae Totius Or [..]
€ 10.100,00
Amount including auction fees
Piranesi Giovanni Battista (Venezia 1720- Venezia 1778) Le antichità r [..]
€ 10.100,00
Amount including auction fees
Piranesi Giovanni Piranesi Ioannis Baptistae Piranesii antiquariorum r [..]
€ 10.100,00
Amount including auction fees
Albrecht Dürer (Norimberga, 1471 – 1528) Il sogno del dottore
€ 9.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Stampa raffigurante prospetto della città di Roma visto dal Monte Gian [..]
€ 9.475,00
Amount including auction fees
Bartolomeo Eustacchio Tabulæ anatomicæ clarissimi viri... Ex Officina [..]
€ 9.475,00
Amount including auction fees
Antico manoscritto arabo per la preghiera settimanale, XVIII secolo
€ 9.350,00
Amount including auction fees
Girolamo Francesco Mazzola detto il Parmigianino (Parma 1503 - 1540) S [..]
€ 9.350,00
Amount including auction fees
Coppia di incisioni raffiguranti la basilica di San Paolo fuori delle [..]
€ 8.850,00
Amount including auction fees
Salvatore Busuttil (Gozo, 1798 – 1854) Solenne processione vaticana ne [..]
€ 8.850,00
Amount including auction fees
Album figurati-Giappone Tre album giapponesi a colori e in nero.
€ 8.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Antifonario su pergamena, Genova secolo XV. 349 fogli pergamenacei
€ 8.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Manoscritto cartaceo del XV secolo- (Boezio, Severino) (De Consolatio [..]
€ 8.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Diderot, Denis / D'Alembert, Jean Baptiste Le Ronde Encyclopédie, ou [..]
€ 8.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Seutter Georg Matthäus Atlas novus indicibus instructus... 1728
€ 8.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Piranesi Giovanni Battista Diverse maniere di adornare i cammini...Ed [..]
€ 8.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Giulio Rospigliosi (Papa Clemente IX) 1600-1669 Virgilio Mazzocchi 1597 - 1646
Chi soffre speri. Manoscritto musicale cartaceo secolo XVII (prima rap [..]
€ 8.160,00
Amount including auction fees
Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica..Editio tert [..]
€ 7.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Jacques Ayrouard (Francia, Prima metà del sec. XVIII) Recueil de plusi [..]
€ 7.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Peter Brugel il Vecchio
Bulino originale, firmato in lastra da Bruel e dall’editore Hieronymus [..]
€ 7.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Geografia - Atlanti Magini, Gio.Antonio
€ 7.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Quattro incisioni acquerellate delle logge vaticane di Raffaello, da G [..]
€ 6.975,00
Amount including auction fees
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli
Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria Epitome cosmografica o compendiosa introdutt [..]
€ 6.975,00
Amount including auction fees
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