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Catawiki B. V.

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Auction Name: Old and Rare Books (pre-1700)
Auction Date: 01/05/2026 - 01/05/2026
Sale Number: #10526
Total Lots: 68
Sold Lots: 60.0
Lots Sold: 88.24%
Unsold Lots: 8

Total Sales (EUR): 23,721.70
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 27,825.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 42,575.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 34,575.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 62,625.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 37.88%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
100158093	William Harvey	Anatomical Exercitations, Concerning the Generation of Living Creatures: To which are added	1653	EUR 4,900.00 - 5,400.00	EUR 4,796.00
100193852	DANTE ALIGHIERI	Dante con l'espositioni di Christoforo Landino et d'Alessandro Vellutello	1596	EUR 4,200.00 - 8,500.00	EUR 3,760.50
100222239	Torquato Tasso / Agostino Carracci	Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered)	1617	EUR 1,400.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 2,071.00
100193873	FRANCOIS RABELAIS	Les OEuvres de Francois Rabelais	1663	EUR 1,900.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 926.50
100231914	Cantoral [Musica, Canto Gregoriano][1693]	Cantus Passionum secundum quatuor Evangelistas et Lamentationum Jeremiae Prophetae [Antifonario]	1693	EUR 650.00 - 800.00	EUR 599.50
100187977	[POST-INCUNABLE] M. Fabius Quintilianus	M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionum Oratoria + Oratoris Eloquentissimi Declamationes Undeuiginti	1538	EUR 700.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 599.50
100203999	Heinrich Pantaleon	Chronographia Ecclesiae Christi	1575/1568	EUR 475.00 - 550.00	EUR 545.00
98706070	Joseph Mascardi	Conclusiones omnium probatiorum	1593	EUR 550.00 - 700.00	EUR 545.00
100184819	[VOC]	Vijf verscheyde journalen van Pieter van den Broeck, gehouden op zijne reysen na Cabo-Verde, Angola	1660	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 479.60
100193864	PLACIDO TITI	ASTROLOGY-ASTRONOMY Continuatio Ephemeridum Caelestium Motuum ab initio anni 1666 usque ad finem	1666	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 479.60
100189548	Giovanni Vimercato	Dialogo de gli horologi solari... Sun watch orologi solari	1672	EUR 425.00 - 500.00	EUR 468.70
100230774	[Varron, Verrius Flaccus, Paul Manuce] / Denys Godefroy	Auctores Latinae Linguae in unum redacti corpus	1602	EUR 375.00 - 450.00	EUR 465.43
100230771	Juste Lipse	Roma illustrata, sive Antiquitatum Romanarum breviarium.	1645	EUR 200.00 - 375.00	EUR 458.89
100209249	[Medecine] Nicolas Abraham de la Framboisiere	Les Oevvres de Nicolas Abraham de la Framboisiere	1613	EUR 220.00 - 400.00	EUR 403.30
100229577	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Opera M. T. Ciceronis	1511/1531	EUR 550.00 - 900.00	EUR 327.00
100231748	Constantijn Huygens	Koren-bloemen Nederlandsche Gedichten	1672	EUR 375.00 - 450.00	EUR 294.30
100231129	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Orationum M. Tulij Ciceronis volumen I. A Ioan. Michaele Bruto emendatum. Accesserunt breues	1584	EUR 275.00 - 350.00	EUR 283.40
100216920	[XVIIIe CONTE] - Antoine Hamilton	Le Belier, conte. [Suivi de:] Histoire de Fleur d'Epine, conte.	1730	EUR 275.00 - 600.00	EUR 267.05
100218021	Friedrich Spanheim le Jeune	Friderici Spanhemii F. Introductio ad historiam et antiquitates sacras [Reliure signee Muller]	1675	EUR 325.00 - 600.00	EUR 261.60
100230918	Lucius Caecilius Firmianus [dit Lactance] ; Jean de Tournes	L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani : Diuinarum institutionum libri VII. De ira Dei liber I. De Opificio	1579	EUR 375.00 - 450.00	EUR 261.60

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