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Catawiki B. V.: Autographs & Manuscripts Auction
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Autographs & Manuscripts Auction | Total Sales (EUR) | 14,868.69 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 24, 2026 - June 24, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 20,910.00 |
| Sale Number | #62426b | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 26,805.00 |
| Total Lots | 115 | ||
| Sold Lots | 100.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 24,020.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 86.96% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 30,655.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 15 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 48.50% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104536644 | Signe ; Napoleon Bonaparte [de sa main] | Exceptionnelle lettre manuscrite signee au Caire - Campagne d'Egypte |
1798 | EUR 2,800.00 - 3,100.00 | EUR 3,815.00 |
| 104299547 | Che Guevara | Discurso La Habana (La Cabana) 2 P. Con Certificado de Autencidad LOA Abril 29 |
1959 | EUR 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 | EUR 1,090.00 |
| 104537777 | Louis XIV - Lettre signee Louis - Brevet militaire | Adressee au Capitaine Sainctauny - Guerre de Hollande, Regiment de Castres |
1674 | EUR 250.00 - 500.00 | EUR 664.90 |
| 104603377 | Michel Abdelal, Agha des Janissaires du Caire - Les exiles de la Campagne d'Egypte | Rare lettre signee - Recommandation du Pere Gabriel Taouil - Marseille - Sceau Oriental |
1806 | EUR 450.00 - 550.00 | EUR 479.60 |
| 104553574 | Jozef Dwernicki (1779–1857) , General (one of Poland's greatest military heroes) | Important autograph signed letter to Vienna French ambassy about a donation of Emperor Napoleon III |
1856 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 388.04 |
| 104492750 | Sultan Mahmud II | Ottoman Firman (Income Charter) |
1830 | EUR 450.00 - 500.00 | EUR 370.60 |
| 104473992 | 1er Empire | 20 documents et lettres du premier Empire |
1800 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | EUR 365.15 |
| 104455639 | Popolo Batak | Antico Pustaha |
1857 | EUR 450.00 - 500.00 | EUR 306.29 |
| 104453114 | Portrait du Roi espagnol Alphonse XIII, dedicacee a J.-Francois Blondel |
1938 | EUR 325.00 - 400.00 | EUR 305.20 | |
| 104358964 | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - "Mon auto a 120 a l'heure" | Lettre autographe signee au poete Rene Arcos - Premices du Futurisme & Vitesse automobile |
1908 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 301.93 |
| 104349974 | Alfred de Vigny | Superbe lettre autographe signee evoquant LAMARTINE et ses souvenirs militaires |
1861 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 272.50 |
| 104494275 | Urbano VIII, in latino Urbanus PP. VIII, nato Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini (Firenze, 5 aprile 1568 | Bolla papale Urbano VIII |
1639 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 245.25 |
| 104494338 | Papa Clemente XII (in latino: Clemens PP. XII, nato Lorenzo Corsini; Firenze, 7 aprile 1652 -1740 | Bolla papale Recanati, Papa Clemente XII |
1733 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 223.45 |
| 104350627 | Jean Cocteau | Lettre autographe signee - Verlaine, Lucien Letinois et Baudelaire |
1961 | EUR 220.00 - 250.00 | EUR 218.00 |
| 104512264 | Unknown | Rare Quranic Manuscript Page - Seljuk Turkey |
1080 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 218.00 |
| 104348863 | Jules Renard - Mercure de France, Le Vigneron dans sa vigne, Le Sagittaire | Superbe lettre autographe signee a Ernest Raynaud |
1901 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 207.10 |
| 104361044 | Pierre-Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Bonaparte - Foi en la Democratie et Exil | Exceptionnelle lettre entierement autographe signee a Armand Marrast - Mohimont, Belgique |
1845 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 201.65 |
| 104556229 | Unknown | Collection of 3 Japanese Hand-Painted Shikishi Boards 26825 |
1980/1950 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 196.20 |
| 104538664 | Louis XV - Lettre signee Louis - Brevet militaire, Regiment de Toulouse, Grenadiers | Adressee au Marquis d'O, contresignee par Le Duc d'Orleans, et Le Tonnelier de Breteuil |
1726 | EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 179.85 |
| 104591792 | Felipe IV | Firma |
1630 | EUR 270.00 - 300.00 | EUR 168.95 |
| 103380977 | Jean Cocteau | Lettre autographe signee au sujet d'Orson Wells |
1953 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | EUR 158.05 |
| 104359960 | Maurice Leblanc, Createur du celebre gentleman-cambrioleur Arsene Lupin | Lettre autographe signee a son "vieux" - Luchon, Presse et Vaucottes |
1893 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 142.79 |
| 104513240 | Manuscrito | Ano 1653. Manuscrito Galicia, Espana. 23 paginas. 11 sellos Rey Felipe IV. |
1653 | Not Available | EUR 136.25 |
| 104519113 | Zayn al-Abidin 'Ali ibn al-Hussyn | Payers |
1689 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 132.98 |
| 104600233 | West-Vlaanderen | 7 Manuscripten (Vrije Brugge) |
1627 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 120.99 |
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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