Catawiki B. V.: Old & Rare Books Auction Pre-1700, 52026a, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
Page Size: 120 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100784791 Pere Jean Lejeune

Le Missionnaire de L'Oratoire, Sermons de la Foy (Premiere Partie)

1666 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 45.78
102183614 Janssonius

Conciones et Orationes

1657 EUR 200.00 - 350.00 EUR 100.28
102550204 Scherffer

Institutionum Geometricarum

1760/1761 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 88.29
102574762 Hierosme Fabrice d'Aquapendente

Les oeuvres chirurgicales de Hierosme Fabrice d'Aquapendente, fameux medecin, chirurgien &

1658 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 327.00
102681391 Tasso

Goffredo

1581 EUR 650.00 - 800.00 EUR 425.10
102977105 Giovenale

Satyrae Sexdecim

1602/1603 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.00
102978854 Pignatelli

Funerali del Duca di Terranova, e Montelione

1753 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 54.50
102982225 Haeckel

Storia della Creazione Naturale

1892 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 93.74
103233178 ir William Gore / J. Needham

Views in South America

1974 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 59.95
103238012 Rondelet

Arte di Edificare

1841/1840 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 982.09
103240052 Dionysius Halicarnasseus

Scripta, quae Extant, Omnia

1691 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 369.51
103241974 Anneo Floro

Rerum Romanorum

1660 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 92.65
103260991 Monroy

Processionarium Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum

1679 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 149.33
103261464 Buffier

Geografia Universale

1760 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 120.99
103262194 Pomponio Mela

De Situ Orbis

1761 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 98.10
103262782 Dumont d’Urville

Voyage Autour du Monde

1834 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 142.79
103264657 Clarke

Ilias Odyssea

1754 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 479.60
103265605 Van Vaernewijck

Historie van Belgis

1665 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 497.04
103266109 Anselmus

Commentaria ad Perpetuum Edictum

1664 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 228.90
103266534 Gramaye

Antiquitates Illustrissimi Ducatus Brabantiae

1708 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 163.50
103267350 Strada

Guerre de Flandre

1651 EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 457.80
103269598 Comte de Namur

Livre Noir

1790 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 29.43
103270419 Van den Elsken

Versamelinge van Verscheyde

1790 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 201.65
103271165 Pepper

Sword Exercise

1798 EUR 400.00 - 700.00 EUR 147.15
103286580 Cicerone

Opera

1724 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 76.30
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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