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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) | 15,966.32 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 25, 2026 - May 25, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 17,655.00 |
| Sale Number | #52526a | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 26,120.00 |
| Total Lots | 94 | ||
| Sold Lots | 53.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 40,670.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 56.38% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 61,690.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 41 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 25.88% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 103841445 | Nicolaus de Lyra | Biblia Latina, (INCUNABULA ON RELIGION, ASTROLOGY, ESOTERICISM, ASTRONOMY) |
1498 | EUR 2,200.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 2,421.98 |
| 103882221 | Cosimo Bartoli after Euclid, Vitruvius and Ptolemy | Method of Measuring Distances, FIRST EDITION on Geometry, Cartography, Mathematics |
1564 | EUR 1,600.00 - 3,700.00 | EUR 1,682.96 |
| 103879025 | Michael Miethen | Artilleriae recentior praxis. Oder Neuere Geschutz-Beschreibung, worinnen von allen Haupt-Puncten |
1683 | EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 822.95 |
| 103871934 | Pieter Bor Christiaensz | Oorspronck, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandschen Oorlogen. Deel I, II, III en IV |
1679 | EUR 550.00 - 750.00 | EUR 654.00 |
| 103737847 | Enrico VIII | Assertio Septem Sacramentorum - Regia Angliae |
1562 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 635.47 |
| 103879998 | C. F. Paullini | Lycographia, seu, de natura & usu lupi. & De asino liber historico - physico - medicus. |
1694/1695 | EUR 450.00 - 500.00 | EUR 610.40 |
| 103842939 | Esopo | Aesopi Fabulae + Batrachomyomachia + Galeomyomachia... 3 parti in 1 |
1567 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 436.00 |
| 103854206 | Paolo Aringhi | Roma Subterranea Novissima. Volume 1-2. |
1659 | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 425.10 |
| 103888137 | Johannes de Laet (1581–1649), toegeschreven | Belgii Confoederati Respublica |
1633 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 371.69 |
| 103854272 | Steph. Blankaart - Jan en Caspar Luyken | Den Nederlandschen herbarius, ofte kruidboek, der voornaamste kruiden … |
1698 | EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | EUR 370.60 |
| 103903913 | Carolus Ludovicus Tolnerus [Carl Ludwig Tolner] | Historia Palatina, Seu Primorum & Antiquissimorum Comitum Palatinorum Ad Rhenum Res Gestae Eorumque |
1709/1700 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 370.60 |
| 103814125 | Johannes Aysma, Jan Luyken, Jan Lamsvelt | Het Ryck der Goden onder den eenige waare God |
1686 | EUR 350.00 - 750.00 | EUR 337.90 |
| 103814082 | Ovidius Naso | Alle de werken - met 138 gravures |
1697 | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | EUR 336.81 |
| 103644107 | Iconibus | Historia deorvm fatidicorvm |
1675 | Not Available | EUR 306.29 |
| 103811835 | D. Gothofredus | Corpus Jurisa Civilis In Quatuor Partes Distinctum |
1663 | EUR 300.00 - 700.00 | EUR 294.30 |
| 103834816 | Apuleio | Asino aureo libri undecim |
1536 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 272.50 |
| 103899600 | Dominicus Soto | De Iustitia & Iure |
1573 | EUR 220.00 - 400.00 | EUR 249.61 |
| 103740362 | Synode van Dordrecht | Acta Nationale Synode Dordrecht |
1621 | EUR 250.00 - 400.00 | EUR 245.25 |
| 103832643 | Sleidan Johann | De statu Religionis et Reipublicae, Carolo quinto, Caesare b/w Quator imperiis Babylonico, Persico, |
1559 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 245.25 |
| 103803869 | Aristotele / Segni | Il Trattato Sopra i Libri dell'Anima |
1583 | EUR 375.00 - 450.00 | EUR 244.16 |
| 103769783 | Salomon | Proverbia Salomonis |
1547 | EUR 225.00 - 275.00 | EUR 239.80 |
| 103834674 | Stephan Blancard | Die belagert- und entsetzte VENUS, Das ist/ Chirurgische Abhandlung Der so genannten Frankosen / |
1699 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 239.80 |
| 103819614 | Ennemond Bonnefoi | Juris Orientalis Libri III. (First Edition) |
1573 | EUR 650.00 - 800.00 | EUR 223.45 |
| 103823090 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] / Franciscus Irenicus Ettelengiacensis [Franz Friedlieb] | Q. Horatii Flacci Venusini, poetae lyrici, poemata, quae extant, omnia, a mendis iterum summa |
1567 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 221.27 |
| 103818835 | Francisco de Quevedo | The Visions of Dom Francisco De Quevedo Villegas, Knight of the Order of St. James. |
1667 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 207.10 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000