Catawiki B. V.: Science & Nature Books, 92125c, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 21, 2025 - September 21, 2025

Page Size: 50 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
97697327	Charles Darwin	De l'origine des especes	1862	EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
97702402	Adriaan Paets van Trootstwilk and C. Krayenhoff	De L'Application de l'electricite a la physique et a la medecine	1788	EUR 1,100.00 - 1,250.00	Not Sold
97703286	Benjamin Wilson	A Treatise on Electricity	1746/1750	EUR 650.00 - 750.00	EUR 327.00
97704833	Sigaud De La Fond	Description et Usage d'un Cabinet de Physique Experimentale	1775	EUR 750.00 - 850.00	Not Sold
97710916	Niels Bohr	On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules [In] The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical	1913	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
97713241	Giambatista Beccaria	Dell'elettricismo artificiale e naturale libri due	1753	EUR 650.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
97713300	Pierre Bertholon	De l'electricite des vegetaux : ouvrage dans lequel on traite de l'electricite de l'atmosphere sur	1783	EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 327.00
97713397	Carlo Alfonso Guadagni	Specimen experimentorum naturalium	1779	EUR 425.00 - 475.00	Not Sold
97713449	[Edme] Mariotte	Oeuvres de M. Mariotte de l'Academie Royale des sciences comprenant tous les traitez de cet auteur,	1740	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 479.60
97713658	Castel, Louis	Le vrai systeme de Physique generale de Isaac Newton expose et analyse en parallele avec celui de	1743	EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00	Not Sold
97713835	Leonardo da Vinci	Del moto e misura dell'acqua	1828	EUR 750.00 - 850.00	Not Sold
97726941	F.W. Delkeskamp	Panorama of the Rhine + Steam-Boat Companion	1830	EUR 375.00 - 450.00	EUR 186.39
97727985	Giovanni Battista Veratti	Osservazioni fisico-mediche intorno all'elettricita	1748	EUR 375.00 - 450.00	EUR 348.80
97729565	Franz Ambrosius Reuss	Mineralogische Geographie von Bohmen, Erster Band	1793	EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
97735970	De Brancas Villeneuve/Copernic	Lettres sur la Cosmographie ou le sisteme de Copernic est refute	1745	EUR 1,300.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 872.00
97759490	Mr.Duhamel du Monceau	Physica de los arboles	1772	EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00	EUR 817.50
97763740	Crantz/Krapf	Stirpium Austriarum (bound with)//Experimenta	1762/1766	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 218.00
97764106	Crantz Heinrich	Institutionum botanicarum	1767	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 174.40
97768670	Dotti	Tarocchino milanese	1865	EUR 1,700.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,526.00
97788379	Picart	Recueil de Lions	1729	EUR 1,700.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 763.00
97816381	Mme Veuve Boivin; A. Duges	Traite pratique des maladies de l'uterus et de ses annexes	1833	EUR 450.00 - 550.00	Not Sold
97817083	Georges Cuvier	Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles	1836	EUR 750.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
97818603	E. Brissaud	[Atlas] Anatomie du Cerveau de l'Homme	1893	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
97829957	Bonnaterre / Benard	Ichtyologie - 101 planches 413 poissons. Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la	1788	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,300.00	Not Sold
97843268	Comte de Tressan	Essai sur le fluide electrique, considere comme agent universel	1786	EUR 550.00 - 700.00	Not Sold

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.