Catawiki B. V.: Science and Nature Books Auction, 41226c, LA Assen,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 12, 2026 - April 12, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101798419 | Accademia delle Scienze dell' Istituto di Bologna | De Bononiensi Scientiarum et Artium Instituto Atque Academia Commentarii |
1746/1748 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,635.00 | |
| 101971781 | Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu | L'Art de Faire Les Cristaux Colores Imitans Les Pierres Precieuses |
1778 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 75.21 | |
| 102124295 | Castore Durante | Herbario Nuovo |
1718 | USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 926.50 | |
| 102218263 | Albert Einstein | Zur Quantentheorie des idealen Gases |
1925 | USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102237243 | Carsten Niebuhr | Beschreibung von Arabien: Aus eigenen Beobachtungen und im Lande selbst gesammleten Nachrichten |
1772 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,122.70 | |
| 102266520 | Marcus Elieser Bloch | Histoire naturelle des Poissons |
1801 | USD 750.00 - 900.00 | USD 654.00 | |
| 102330110 | Royal Navy | Le Livre des Signaux |
1857 | Not Available | USD 93.74 | |
| 102370050 | . | Description De L`Egypte Ou Recueil Des Observations Et Des Recherches Qui Ont Ete Faites En |
1826 | USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102444401 | F. Cantraine | Malacologie mediterraneenne et littorale |
1840 | USD 500.00 - 550.00 | USD 218.00 | |
| 102462492 | Roger Joseph Boscovich | Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis |
1763 | USD 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 | USD 1,090.00 | |
| 102465664 | [Unknown] | The Compleat Cyderman: or, the Present Practice of Raising Plantations of the Best Cyder Apple and |
1754 | USD 325.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102471200 | P. Viala et V. Vermorel | Traite general de viticulture: Ampelographie |
1910/1901 | USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102543108 | Galileo Galilei | Le opere di Galileo Galilei : ristampa della edizione nazionale sotto l'alto patronato di S. M. il |
1929 | USD 2,700.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102549576 | Josias Weitbrecht | Human Ligaments: Syndesmologia Sive Historia Ligamentorum Corporis Humani |
1742 | USD 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102591690 | Pieter de la Court van der Voort. | Byzondere Aenmerkingen over het aanleggen van prachtige en gemeene landhuizen, lusthoven, |
1737 | USD 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102597838 | Vialla de Sommieres, L. C.: | Voyage Historique Et Politique Au Montenegro |
1820 | USD 850.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 457.80 | |
| 102598326 | Ludwig Salvator, Erzherzog von Osterreich | Versuch einer Geschichte von Parga. |
1908 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 479.60 | |
| 102610200 | Mrs Lasenby Liberty | Japan. A pictorial record by Mrs. Lasenby Liberty |
1910 | USD 750.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102613785 | John Russell Bartlett | Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and |
1854 | USD 500.00 - 650.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102617370 | Lorenz Oken | Natural History (Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande) |
1833/1843 | USD 1,700.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,580.50 | |
| 102657380 | Newton | Arithmetica Universalis sive de Compositione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber |
1732 | USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 | USD 1,308.00 | |
| 102660721 | Comite central de la Societe de Medecine du Departement de l'Eure | Annuaire de la Societe de Medecine du Departement de l'Eure |
1822/1806 | USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102682056 | Henricus Niderndorff [Heinrich Niederndorf] | Generalis Geographia Cosmica, Mathematica, Naturalis, Politica, Cum Speciali |
1739 | USD 1,100.00 - 1,250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102682088 | J. Delaporte | Le voyageur Francois, ou la connoissance de l'ancien et du nouveau monde. |
1795/1777 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,090.00 | |
| 102686434 | Heinrich Ritter Wawra von Fernsee | Itinera principum S. Coburgi. Die botanische Ausbeute von den Reisen ihrer Hoheiten der Prinzen von |
1883 | USD 700.00 - 800.00 | USD 828.40 |
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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 -
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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