Antique Books and Prints

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.
Top Lots

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

Ortelius Abraham (1528-1598) Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, (in fine:) Antue [..]
€ 42.600,00
Amount including auction fees

La Fontaine, Jean de - Chagall Marc Fables.Eaux-fortes originales de M [..]
€ 41.060,00
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

Braun Hogenberg Civitates orbis terrarum...1572-1617
€ 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

Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raison [..]
€ 18.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Johan blaeu

Blaeu Johan Nouveau Theatre Du Piemont Et de La Savoye. Ou description [..]
€ 19.300,00
Amount including auction fees

Coronelli Vincenzo (Venezia, 1650 - 1718) (solo tomo I) Atlante Veneto [..]
€ 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

Kaerius, Petrus (Petri Kaerii) Petri Kaerii, Germania inferior id est, [..]
€ 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

Chatelain Henri-Abraham e Nicolas Gueudeville. Atlas historique, ou no [..]
€ 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

Poliziano Angelo

Poliziano Angelo Omnia opera Angeli Politiani...Venezia, Aldus,1498
€ 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

Johannes Blaeu and Martino Martini Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Mart [..]
€ 9.060,00
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

Lose Federico (1776-1833) Viaggio pittorico e storico al monte Spluga. [..]
€ 8.225,00
Amount including auction fees
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:58:43 +0000
La Clementina by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
On March 28, 2024, Cambi Auction House's appointment dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century Paintings returns with numerous new works of art. Among the most important works [..]
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:18:12 +0000
Alessandro Arseni: a life devoted to Philately
Alessandro Arseni has devoted his entire life to philatelic study and research, especially on the world of nineteenth-century mail and the Risorgimento. A dedication and [..]
Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:31:53 +0000
Vincenzo Coronelli: Friar, cosmographer and argonaut of La Serenissima Republic of Venice
The event dedicated to "Antique and Rare Books, Antique Prints, Views and Maps" is approaching. On Thursday, March 14, 2024, at the prestigious venue of Castello Mackenzie [..]
Contacts
Gianni Rossi

Gianni Rossi

Specialist
Erica Di Caro

Erica Di Caro

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