MARITIME SALE


The sea in all its facets is the protagonist of the first Maritime Sale at Aste Bolaffi. The catalog is rich of collectibles items for nautical fans: books and prints, important advertising posters, paintings, furniture and objects d’art, nautical instruments and naval models, including some design objects and memorabilia from famous liners of the past.

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4 pm | lots 1-226

VIEWING from Thursday 28 June to Tuesday 3 July (except Sunday)
10 am - 6.00 pm
Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Torino

Lot 1


SAMUEL DUNN
A new chart of the World on Mercator`s projection. London, Laurie e Whittle, 1794.
Etching with hand colored borders.
Beautiful copper engraving with full margins of this interesting map of the world that describes the sea voyages of the greatest read all

Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 200

Lot 2

JOSEPH ROUX  1725-1793 
Nouveau recueil des plans des ports, et rades de la Mer Méditerranée. Genoa, Yves Gravier, 1848.
Oblong 4 ° (170 x 235 mm). Title page and 181 maps engraved in copper of which 1 folded (some stains, light traces of moisture.) Modern full
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000

Lot 3


VENETIAN GALLEON
Etching depicting a galleon with the flag of Saint Mark with legends on the short margins for the use of nautical schools. In the lot also two beautiful world maps by Scattaglia in modern frames.
16.54 x 20.87 in.

Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 175

Lot 4


ENGRAVINGS WITH FISHES
Group of 12 etchings from a German work of the 18th Century, assembled in groups of 6 within blue passe-partout and in 2 wooden frames.

Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200

Lot 5


ENGRAVINGS WITH CORALS AND CRUSTACEUS 
Group of 12 etchings from a German work of the 18th Century, assembled in groups of 6 within blue passe-partout and in 2 gilt frames.

Starting price: € 200

Lot 6


ENGRAVINGS WITH FISHES AND SHELLS
Group of 8 etchings from a German work of the 18th Century, assembled in groups of 4 within blue passe-partout and in 2 small gilt frames.

Starting price: € 200

Lot 7


MODESTO PAROLETTI  1767-1834
Castello di Monaco 1824
Very rare lithographic view of Monaco from the work of Paroletti Romantic pictorial journey of the western provinces of ancient and modern Italy, light spotting.
11.1 x 13.8 in.

Starting price: € 180 | Sold for : € 180

Lot 8


LOUIS BACLER D’ALBE  1761-1824
Environs d'Alassio. (méditerranée.) 1818
Rare lithograph view engraved by Godefroy Engelmann from the album Souvenirs pittoresques of 1818. In passe-partout, very light spotting.
10.4 x 14.2 in.

Starting price: € 200

Lot 9


GILBERT CHABROL DE VOLVIC  1773-1843
Oneille 1824
Beautiful lithograph plate from the Statistique des Provinces de Savone by Gilbert Gaspard de Volvic, engraved by Charles Motte and published by Didot l'Ainé in Paris in 1824. In passe-partout, very light spotting.
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Starting price: € 200

Lot 10


GUILLAUME DE LA HAYE
Group of three etchings printed after 1745 with later coloring, depicting the ports of the Franco-Italian coast, from Monaco to Menton, the Camp de Bordighera with Ventimiglia and San Remo.  
11.4 x 15.4 in.

Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600

Lot 11


PAOLO EMILIO BARBERI  1775-1847
Vedute di Nizza
Interesting group of 4 beautiful views of the city of Nice and its port, lithographed by François Le Villain, occasional spotting.
11 x 15 in.

Starting price: € 800

Lot 12


GILBERT CHABROL DE VOLVIC  1773-1843
Varazze 1824
Beautiful lithograph plate from the Statistique des Provinces de Savone by Gilbert Gaspard de Volvic, engraved by Charles Motte and published by Didot l'Ainé in Paris in 1824. In passe-partout, very light spotting.
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Starting price: € 200

Lot 13

ANONIMO
Genova, panorama dalla terrazza di Marmo
Group consisting of 3 vintage gelatin silver prints with depicting the port of Genoa, the launch of the Real Nave Conte di Cavour dated 1911, and the destroyer 'Ostro'.
Minor defects and wear. 
From 7.28 x 8.94 to 8.46 x 11.22 in. 

Starting price: € 200

Lot 14

STUDIO FOTOGRAFICO HAUTECOEUR
Gruppo fotografie di navi da guerra francesi
Lot consisting of 8 vintage gelatin silver prints depicting warships of the French Navy, as the Formidable, the Jean d'Arc and the Grandin submarine. On the reverse all stamped 'Jules Hautecoueur'.
Minor folds, defects and wear. 
8.46 x 10.91 in.

Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 600

Lot 15

FRENCH RAILWAYS 

Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Mediterranée. Paris, circa 1910.
Oblong 4 ° (252 x 328 mm). 16 pages. Text in French, English and German, 22 full page photographic reproductions. Contemporary color cardboard with title within elaborate liberty frame.
Beaut
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Starting price: € 120

Lot 16

MARIO TADDEI
Arte decorativa navale di Anselmo Bucci. Milan, Ceschina, 1931.
In 8° (278 x 200 mm). 65, [6] pages. 91 full page plates depicting interiors and naval decorations designed by Anselmo Bucci. Editorial light blue canvas binding with title and decoration
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Starting price: € 330

Lot 17

PIETRO SILVA  1887-1954
Le crociere del principe ereditario. Bergamo, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1924.
In 8 ° (260 x 180 mm). 130 pages. 131 photographic reproductions in the text. Editorial blue canvas binding with gilt title and phototype applied to the
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Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100

Lot 18

In 8 ° (215 x 145 mm). Two volumesbound together. Contemporary red cloth with impressions in black and gold on the upper cover.
Fine copy of the second enlarged edition.

Starting price: € 400

Lot 19

MARS 1849-1912
Aux rives d’or. Paris, Plon, [1889].
In 4 ° (315 x 245 mm). 34 color lithographic plates. Contemporary blue canvas with gilt title and illustration on upper cover.
Fine copy of this first edition of a great classic on the two Rivieras, Ligurian and
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200

Lot 20

BERNARD TEUTSCH-LERCHENFELD
Deutschland zur See [Leipsig, 1913].
Oblong 2° (355 x 460 mm). 25 (of 31?) loose plates with color illustrations of ships mounted on cardboard. Editorial album in green canvas with elaborate decoration and title on the upper cover.

Starting price: € 300

Lot 21

BOOKS ON THE SEA
Lot consisting of a Dictionary of Medieval and Modern Navy printed in 1937 and a work by Ernesto Roggiero entitled The Sea printed in ​​1928.

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Starting price: € 100

Lot 22

GIORGIO ROLETTO
Porti, cantieri e navi d'Italia. Brescia, Giulio Vannini, 1934.
In 4 ° (345 x 260 mm). 920, [12] pages. Portraits of Vittorio Emanuele III and Mussolini, numerous diagrams and graphs, 193 illustrations including photographs and drawings, advertising
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Starting price: € 180

Lot 23

BOOKS ON THE SEA
Lot consisting of works on the sea among which A collection of maps to documents related to Amerigo Vespucci of 1954, a book on the National Maritime Museum in London and 3 works from the italian series La Biblioteca del Mare.

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Starting price: € 300

Lot 24


Il vero giuoco della barca
Hand colored lithograph, in modern frame.
Although known in different variations, the game of the boat is one of the oldest and most popular gambling games of all times.
15.7 x 11 in.

Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 300

Lot 25

JEAN COCTEAU  1889-1963
Les Ombres Heureuses de Monte Carlo. Paris, Lepape, 1947.
In 2 ° (387 x 291 mm). [2], [56], [2] pages. 13 full-page color etchings by Claude Lepape including the frontispiece. Editorial beige Auvergne cardboard with green title on upper cover,
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Starting price: € 400

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