BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Auction on Oct 15, 2026 by Wannenes - Art Auction in Liguria
LEONARDI, Giovan Giacomo (1498-1562). Delle battaglie
MINGHETTI, Marco (1818-1886). The Personal Library of
VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564). De humani corporis

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Books and Manuscripts
AMATO, Giovanni Maria (ca. 1640-1732). De principe: templo Panormitano libri XIII. Palermo: Aiccardo, Sidoti, Drago, 1728. First edition of this history of Palermo Cathedral, with only one auction appearance recorded (RBH). In thirteen books, drawing
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€800
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€1,200
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APRILE, Francesco (1659-1723). Della cronologia: universale della Sicilia libri tre. Palermo: nella stamperia di Gaspare Bayona, 1725. First edition of this posthumous work by the Jesuit Francesco Aprile, dedicated to Prince Eugene of Savoy
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€300
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€500
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BURIGNY, Jean Levesque de (1692-1785). Histoire: generale de Sicile, dans laquelle on verra toutes les differentes revolutions de ce royaume... The Hague: Beauregard; Gosse, 1745. First edition of this work which, drawing on the principal classical
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€300
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DI BLASI, Giovanni Evangelista (1720-1812). Storia: cronologica de' vicerè, luogotenenti, e presidenti del Regno di Sicilia. Palermo: Solli, 1790-1791. First edition of the monumental work by the Benedictine monk and royal historiographer
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€300
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EMANUELE GAETANI, Francesco Maria (1720-1802). Della: Sicilia Nobile. Palermo: Bencivenga, 1754-1759. [WITH:] Appendice alla Sicilia nobile. Palermo: Bentivegna, 1775. First edition, scarceon the market (only two auction appearances in the past 20
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€400
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MONGITORE, Antonino (1663-1743). Parlamenti generali: del Regno di Sicilia dall'anno 1446 fino al 1748. Palermo: Pietro Bentivenga, 1749. First edition of this important collection devoted to the Parliaments of the Kingdom of Sicily, compiled by the
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€600
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€1,000
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ORTOLANI, Giuseppe Emanuele (1758-1828). Biografia: degli uomini illustri della Sicilia. Naples: Nicola Gervasi, 1817-1821. First edition of the most extensive biographical collection devoted to the leading figures of Sicilian history and culture. The
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€300
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SARRI, Gaetano (1698-1771). Gius pubblico-sicolo.: Palermo: Bentivenga, 1786. Expanded edition, dedicated to Viceroy Francesco d'Aquino and illustrated with 28 portraits of the kings of Sicily and Naples, of this treatise on the public law of the
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€300
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[SICILY - ENLIGHTENMENT]. A group of two: scarceSicilian editions devoted to the culture and thought of the Enlightenment on the island. Catania and Palermo, 1794. Interesting group comprising two works emblematic of late eighteenth-century
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€300
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[MALTA - SICILIA]. A group of three legal defences: concerning the fiscal and jurisdictional privileges of the Order of Malta in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Naples, 1774-1790. Interesting collection of three legal memoranda published in the
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€300
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[MALTA - SICILY]. BOCCONE, Paolo (1633-1704). Museo di: piante scarcedella Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, Italia, Piemonte, e Germania [...] con l'Appendix. Venice: Zuccato, 1697. First edition of this scarceand important botanical work by the Sicilian
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€1,000
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€1,000
[PORTOLAN CHART] DE OLIVA, Placido (active 1575-1615);: MARTINES, Joan (active 1556-1590) (attributed to). Portolan Atlas of the Mediterranean. Messina, c.1575-1590. An important portolan atlas of the Messina school, charting the Mediterranean basin
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€5,000
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[MALTA - DECORATED PAPERS]. A group of three legal: memoranda published in Malta and bound in elegant embossed papers. Malta, 1796. Interesting collection of three legal pamphlets printed in Malta concerning a dispute over the fief of Gariexem and
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€400
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[MALTA - ECONOMY]. Rappresentanza delli uditori de: conti a sua altezza eminentissima e suo sagro consiglio con la risposta del segretario del tesoro. [Malta: Mallia], 1788. Memorandum shedding light on the financial organisation of the Order of Malta
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[MALTA - PRIVATEERING] CASTELLI, Vincenzo, Prince of: Torremuzza (1727-1792). I Fasti di Agnolo Emo. Syracuse: Pulejo, 1792. An apparently unrecorded edition, not traced in public library catalogues and with no auction records (RBH), of this encomiastic
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€500
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[MALTA - PRIVATEERING] DELLA GHERARDESCA, Francesco: (18th century). Seven autograph letters exchanged with Francesco Antonio Mansi concerning the naval activities of the Order of Malta. Florence, 1764. An interesting correspondence relating to the
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€800
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[MALTA - PAPAL PRIVILEGES]. A group of two legal: pamphlets concerning the privileges and immunities of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Rome, 1753-1767. Collection of two scarceofficial publications concerning the protection of the legal and
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€300
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[MALTA - SIENA]. Lettera scritta da Roma...per la: gloriosa esaltazione dell'Eminentiss. Marcantonio Zondadari al Gran Magistero della Religione Gerosolimitana. Roma: Tinassi, 1720. Eighteenth-century celebratory account describing the festivities
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