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

Lot 26

FRANCO-ITALIAN FRIENDSHIP
Rivista navale alle squadre francese ed italiana del mediterraneo nel golfo di Napoli in onore del presidente della repubblica francese
. 29 aprile 1904.
In 4° (275 x 190 mm). 39, [3] pages. Double page color map of the Gulf of Naples. Calf
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Starting price: € 300

Lot 27

NUNZIO GULINO 1920-2011
Conchiglie
Etching on paper, artist's proof signed and dated lower right. 
13.78 x 9.84 in.

Starting price: € 50

Lot 28


JAMES ROBERTS
A view of the Doge's Palace at Venice with the Grand Landing place before it. [London], 1758. 
Hand-colored etching with some little holes for the light along the edges of the buildings, on the windows of the ships and some stars in the sky, with a read all

Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300

Lot 29


JEAN FRANÇOIS DAUMONT  1740-1775
Vue Perspective de la Ville, et du Port de Rotterdam, du coté de la Meuze. Paris, Daumont, 18th Century
Hand colored etching with some little holes for the light on the windows of buildings and ships as well as some stars in the sky.
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Starting price: € 300

Lot 30


MARITIME VUE D’OPTIQUE
Interesting group of 3 engravings depicting the Prospect der stadt Dunkirchen in Flandern by Georg Balthasar Probst printed in 1770, the beautiful Vue des Chantiers et Du Port de Carthagene en Espagne and rare view of Valetta seen from the castle read all

Starting price: € 400

Lot 31

ANONIMO
Barche in secca
Oil on canvas.
Minor defects and wear. 
11.61 x 15.55 in.

Starting price: € 800

Lot 32

PAIR OF GILT AND SILVER PLATED SALT CELLARS
Italy, 20th Century
In the form of tritons riding a dolphin and holding a gilt inside cone-shaped shell.
6.3 x 4.5 x 3.3 in.

Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 350

Lot 33

ATTRIBUITO A JACOB BELLEVOIS 1621-1676
La tempesta
Oil on canvas, in carved and gilt-wood frame. The painting is accompanied by a photo certificate with the stamp of 'Goyet Antiquités' dated 8th December 1990. 
18.11 x 28.35 in.

Starting price: € 3.000

Lot 34

SILVER SAILING SHIP EX VOTO
20th Century
On a red satin ground and framed. 
5.5 x 7.5 in.

Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100

Lot 35

PAIR OF BOOKS HOLDERS
20th Century
In the form of  a three-masted vessel, in enamelled metal, with waved rectangular base.
Wear to the enamels.
5.5 x 5.9 x 2.4 in.

Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100

Lot 36

BOATS AND SAILING SHIPS
Switzerland, 1920-1930
A group of 10 découpage mounted on 2 cream colored cardboards, depicting various types of sailing ships and boats. 
Minor defects. 
8.26 x 6.10 in. and smaller

Starting price: € 400

Lot 37

GIO PONTI 1891-1979
La corvetta
Ceramic tile depicting a sailing ship, design Gio Ponti, Ginori manifacture San Cristoforo and mounted on a carved wood box. 
5.71 x 5.71 in.

Starting price: € 250

Lot 38

U. LEVI
L'uragano
Tempera on cardboard, signed lower left recto, titled on the reverse. 
5.91 x 7.87 in.

Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150

Lot 39

FISH-SHAPED DECORATIVE PANEL
20th Century
Wooden panel, built in two parts joined by metal crossbars, a metal chain applied at the top.
55.1 x 26 in.

Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250

Lot 40

CERAMIC FISH
Italy, 20th Century
Large ceramic sculpture glazed in blue, yellow and green.
Minor chips, a glued break on the tail.
14.6 x 22.6 x 7.9 in.

Starting price: € 200

Lot 41

PAIR OF MAIOLICA FISH-SHAPED DISHES
HenRiot Quimper, France, first half of 20th Century
With floral borders and blue tails on a beige background, in the middle a feminine profile and a masculine one in typical Breton costume.
Marked under the base HenRiot Quimper n.7.
1.4 x 9.4 x 4.5 in.

Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100

Lot 42

ATTRIBUITO A ABELE JACOPI 1882-1957
Sirena con bimbo e pesce, Lenci, Torino
Hand-molded terracotta, decorated with polychrome semi-gloss enamels, under the base signed 'Lenci' Turin. This is the model number 636 made on the design of Abele Jacopi.
10.24 x 12.60 x 5.91 in.

Starting price: € 1.300 | Sold for : € 1.300

Lot 43

PIETRO MELANDRI 1885-1976
Ciotola con sirena
Maiolica decorated with iridescent enamels in bronze and petroleum green inside. On the base the mark 'P. Melandri' and a apple. 
Diameter 7 in. 

Starting price: € 400

Lot 44

ANONIMO
J. P. Vaal a Ploumanac'h
Gouache on paper, inscribed lower recto 'J. P. Vaal - Ploumanach - Bhr'. Framed. 
Minor scratches, defects and wear. 
11.81 x 13.78 in.

Starting price: € 350

Lot 45

ANONIMO
Marina con veduta di Napoli e il Vesuvio
Gouache on paper in passe-partout and framed. 
14.76 x 23.62 in.

Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500

Lot 46

ANONIMO
L'eruzione del Vesuvio
Oval gouache on paper, framed. 
Minor defects and wear. 
9.84 x 12.20 in.

Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 375

Lot 47

SILVER CUP
Reed & Barton, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1912 circa
With three handles, globular body and circular base, smooth, engraved on the body "Hotel Indian River Co Cup, RCYC, March 20-21-1912 'under a nautical flag in yellow and blue glaze.
Marked under the base.
Some damage to the flag's enamel, minor dents and scratches.
8.7 x read all

Starting price: € 800

Lot 48

ANONIMO
Veduta di Hong Kong
Mixed media on paper, in passe-partout and beautiful marbled frame painted in gouache.
Defects and wear. 
7.68 x 11.81 in.

Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400

Lot 49

TWO THAI NAVY'S SILVER BOXES
Thailand, 20th Century
One rectangular silver and niello box, on the cover a rudder with the inscription "the Royal Thai Government pilots" and a flag, flanked by the dedication surmounted by an anchor, lined inside in painted wood, marked "Siam Sterling" under the base. The other box read all

Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800

Lot 50

LUIGI RONCAGLIA 1915-1978
Marina
Oil on canvas, signed lower right recto. 
11.02 x 14.96 in.

Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250

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