Catawiki B. V.: Autographs and Manuscripts, 82425a, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 24, 2025 - August 24, 2025
Page Size: 48 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
96979364 Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) [Pre-Raphaelite Painter]

Edward Burne-Jones Autograph Letter Signed

1875 EUR 550.00 - 625.00 Not Sold
96979837 Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) [Pre-Raphaelite Painter]

Autograph Letter Signed

1893 EUR 550.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
96980024 Truman Capote (1924-1984) [American Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright and Actor]

Autograph Postcard Signed to his friend Boris Groudinko in Leningrad

1960 EUR 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
96982126 Agatha Christie (1891-1976) [Detective Novelist]

Fine Autograph Letter Signed "Agatha Mallowan" to Lady Stewart

1966 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,700.00 EUR 1,908.59
96982370 Howard Carter (1874-1939) [Painter and Archaeologist, Discoverer of the Tomb of Tutankhamun]

Fine long Autograph Letter signed of the archaeologist as philosopher to the mysterious Miss Ionides

1933 EUR 3,800.00 - 4,200.00 Not Sold
96983130 Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) [French Poet, Playwright and Film Director]

Superb photo by Manuel Freres, Paris, signed --- Cocteau inscribed for Washington University

1925 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,800.00 Not Sold
96984231 Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974) [French Adventurer and Explorer]

Autograph letter and rare 1st english edition of his book 'Hashish'

1935 EUR 650.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
96984339 Charles Dickens (1812-1870) [Novelist]

Dickens is looking for a house for an American friend

1868 EUR 2,400.00 - 2,700.00 Not Sold
96984509 Gustave Dore (1832-1882) [French Illustrator, Etcher and Painter]

Autograph Letter Signed with initials, in French with translation, to 'My dear'

1870 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 343.35
96984634 Gustave Dore (1832-1882) [French Illustrator, Etcher and Painter]

Autograph Letter Signed with initials, in French with translation, to 'My dear Leleux'

1871 EUR 525.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
96998173 Gustave Dore (1833-1882) [French Painter & Illustrator]

Fine carte-de-visite photo by NADAR signed and inscribed

1865 EUR 550.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
96998277 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) [Creator of 'Sherlock Holmes]

Conan Doyle identifies a picture as not being by his father

1924 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
96998975 Edward VII (1841-1910) [King of Great Britain]

Fine clerk written Letter Signed 'Albert Edward' as Prince of Wales to Sir Frederick Young

1883 EUR 500.00 - 550.00 EUR 376.05
96999059 T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) [American Born Poet, Critic & Dramatist, Nobel Prize Winner]

Eliot regrets that he is too busy in Chicago to speak at Duke University

1950 EUR 650.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
96999226 Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002) [Queen of George VI]

The Queen Mother sends sympathy to the recently widowed Lady Anderson

1958 EUR 500.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
96999293 Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002) [Queen of George VI]

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Ava", Lady Waverley

1957 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
97000010 George III (1738-1820) [King of Great Britain] and the 3rd Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish

Fine Commission Document signed as King

1796 EUR 500.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
97001083 Graham Greene (1904-1991) [Novelist & Playwright]

"I AM NO GRAMMARIAN"

1953 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
97002008 Henry James (1843-1916) [American born, British Naturalised Novelist]

Henry James writing to the wife of American millionaire John G. Meiggs

1880 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
97002121 John Paul II (born Karol Jozef Wojtyla, 1920-2005) [Polish Supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic]

The Pope on his second visit to Austria

1988 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,700.00 Not Sold
97002211 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [Novelist & Poet]

Fine Autograph letter signed in full marked 'Private' to 'Dear Sir Charles'

1922 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
97002707 David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) [Poet, Novelist and Essayist]

Lawrence expresses his disgust at the confiscation of his paintings and the burning of his books

1929 EUR 5,300.00 - 5,900.00 Not Sold
97002776 Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) [American Aviator, First to fly solo non-stop across the

Extraordinary photo signed by both and inscribed by Charles

1935 EUR 1,700.00 - 1,900.00 Not Sold
97003054 Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) Consort of Elizabeth II

Christmas card signed and dated underneath photo

1959 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 273.59
97003127 Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) [French Sculptor]

Autograph Letter Signed to 'Madame'

1908 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 765.18
  • Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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  • Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000