Catawiki B. V.: Science and Nature Books Auction, 110925e, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 09, 2025 - November 09, 2025
Page Size: 51 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
97016628 Ellis

Voyage en Chine

1818 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 EUR 327.00
97308915 A. A. V. V.

Scelta di Opuscoli Interessanti [Volta, Spallanzani, Lavoisier, Franklin]

1775/1777 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
97702658 Etienne Geoffroy de Saint Hilaire

Principes de philosophie zoologique [with autograph]

1834/1827 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 1,090.00
98036892 Franz Ambrosius Reuss

Mineralogische Geographie von Bohmen, Erster Band

1793 EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
98291601 De Solis

Istoria della Conquista del Messico

1715 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 316.10
98418890 M. De Keralio

Histoire naturelle des Glacieres de Suisse

1770 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 EUR 1,047.49
98427420 Francisci Blanchini

De Tribus Generibus Instrumentorum Musicae Veterum Organicae, Musica, Strumenti Musicali

1742 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 327.00
98462903 Multiples

The Journal of the Linnean Society zoology

1890/1929 EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
98463814 Multiples

The journal of the Linnean Society Botany

1900/1886 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
98467520 Abbe Bonnaterre

Tableau encyclopedique (.) regnes de la nature : Ophiologie [81 Planches d'Ornithologie. ]

1790 EUR 650.00 - 750.00 EUR 505.76
98467524 Noel-Antoine Pluche / chateau de Louppy de Vassinhac d'Imecourt

Le Spectacle de la Nature, ou Entretiens sur l'Histoire naturelle. [198 planches]

1770/1764 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
98469328 M. Peltier

Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Nouvelles Experiences sur la Caloricite des courants electrique.

1834 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 261.60
98473680 Becquerel Edmond e Antoine

Traite d'electricite et de magnetisme et de leurs applications

1858/1855 EUR 650.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
98476622 Carlo Alfonso Guadagni

Specimen experimentorum naturalium quae singulis annis in illustri Pisano Lyceo.

1779 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
98484068 [Sguario, Eujsebio]

Dell'elettricismo, o sia delle forze elettriche de' corpi svelate dalla fisica sperimentale, con

1746 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
98484164 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 EUR 680.16
98484168 Giambatista Beccaria

Dell'elettricismo artificiale e naturale libri due

1753 EUR 650.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
98484182 Sigaud De La Fond

Description et Usage d'un Cabinet de Physique Experimentale

1775 EUR 750.00 - 850.00 EUR 414.20
98507855 Georges Cuvier

Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles

1836 EUR 650.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
98509880 M. de la Lande

Astronomie

1781/1771 EUR 550.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
98515415 Rameau

Generation Harmonique - Nouvelles Reflexions

1752/1737 EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 588.60
98528250 Abbe Jean-Antoine Nollet

Lecons de physique experimentale [bien complet des 116 planches]

1759/1765 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 218.00
98544004 Caspar Stoll

Cicadas and Tree Bugs: Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen...

1780/1788 EUR 2,300.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 1,091.09
98560285 [Pierre-Jean-Francois Turpin & Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke ] ; Chaumeton

Flore medicale decrite par MM. Chaumeton, peinte par Mme E. Panckoucke et par M. J. Turpin

1819/1814 EUR 1,300.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 1,417.00
98566152 Yves-Joseph De Kerguelen-Tremarec

Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du Nord, aux cotes d'Islande, du

1771 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 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.