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Catawiki B. V.: Old & Rare Books Auction Pre-1700

Auction Reports

Auction Name Old & Rare Books Auction Pre-1700 Total Sales (EUR) 19,036.85
Auction Date May 18, 2026 - May 18, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 21,050.00
Sale Number #51826 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 29,105.00
Total Lots 91
Sold Lots 77.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 28,095.00
% of Lots Sold 84.62% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 40,030.00
Unsold Lots 14 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 47.56%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
103691855 Lodovico Guicciardini, Johannes Janssonius, Petrus Montanus, Pieter van den Keere

Description de touts les Pays-bas : avec toutes les cartes geographiques dedits pays, et plusieurs

1613 EUR 850.00 - 950.00 EUR 1,308.00
103529784 Gessner, Conrad

Schlangenbuch… Dragons Snakes Reptiles Scorpions…

1613 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 927.59
103724036 Democritus Junior [Robert Burton]

The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and

1676 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 862.19
103679541 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Gedichten

1636 EUR 275.00 - 325.00 EUR 780.44
103653864 Jovius, Paulus (Paolo Giovio 1483-1552)

Berumter furtrefflicher Leut Leben/Handlung und Thaten[...] - 2 Teile in 1

1589 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 749.92
103638437 Martin Luther

Von Ehesachen. Item Vom Ehebruch und weglauffen

1540 EUR 275.00 - 450.00 EUR 634.38
103683238 Olfert Dapper

Historische beschrijving van Amsterdam

1663 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 599.50
103596319 John Case

Compendium anatomicum nova methodo institutum

1696 EUR 500.00 - 550.00 EUR 490.50
103576122 Guglielmo Rouillio

Il Cortegiano del conte Baldassarre Castiglione

1553 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 457.80
103617207 S. Agostino

Operum D. Aurelii Augustini

1576 EUR 275.00 - 450.00 EUR 457.80
103612827 Ovidius Naso

Amatoria

1554 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 447.99
103629926 Justinus

Trogi Pompei externae Historiae in compendium ab Iustino redactae. Externorum imperatorum vitae

1522 EUR 550.00 - 800.00 EUR 446.90
103683314 Robert Johnston

[ERSTAUSGABE] Historia Rerum Britannicarum

1655 EUR 450.00 - 750.00 EUR 425.10
103659304 Aristotele

De Physico Auditu

1540 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 414.20
103721841 Flavius Josephus

Flavij Iosephi hoogberoemde Joodtsche Historien

1647 EUR 350.00 - 750.00 EUR 403.30
103325404 Macrobe

Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii, theodosii, viri consularis & illustris

1560 EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 360.79
103712329 Clesio Bernardo.

Statuta Tridentina. Folio.

1614 EUR 250.00 - 280.00 EUR 354.25
103718773 Church of England

The Book of Common Prayer together with The psalter, or Psalms of David

1687 EUR 650.00 - 800.00 EUR 338.99
103357419 Luther Martin/ Lucas Cranach der Altere

Doctorem Martin Luther - Tomus VII Operum apart - Werke Band 7 apart

1554 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 327.00
103537812 [ANTIPHONARIUM] Guillelmi Gabrielis Nivers

ANTIPHONARIUM ROMANUM, JUXTA BREVIARIUM PII QUINTI

1696 EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 327.00
103603321 Jeronimo de Blancas

Modo de proceder en Cortes de Aragon

1641 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.00
103620787 Johannes van Call (1656-1706)

Admirandorum Quadruplex Spectaculum

1697/1694 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.00
102117581 Laurens Van Den Hane

Vlaemsch recht dat is Costumen ende wetten gedecreteert by de graven ende gravinnen van Vlaenderen

1676 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 300.84
103639203

Antiphonarium Abvreviatum. Karthuizer boekje met gezangen, muzieknotaties.

1630 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 288.85
103548929 J. van Beverwyck

Alle de wercken, zo in de medicyne als chirurgie

1660 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 285.58
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.