Catawiki B. V.: Autographs & Manuscripts Auction, 52026b, LA Assen,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96719541 | Marcel Pagnol | Lettre autographe signee au sujet du "Chateau de ma mere" |
1952 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 212.55 | |
| 100093611 | Manuscript | Manuscript from a French Book of Hours - ca. 15th century |
1450 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 142.79 | |
| 101493400 | Jean Cocteau | Lettre autographe signee |
1952 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 147.15 | |
| 102295906 | Jerome Bonaparte | lettre autographe signee a sa fille la Princesse Mathilde |
1846 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 187.48 | |
| 102724656 | Anoniem | Manuscript sheet from a Book of Hours - 15th century |
1490 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 327.00 | |
| 102768107 | Coran | 2 feuillets simples de Coran manuscrit persan, moghol, Safavide. |
1600/1650 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 130.80 | |
| 102812879 | Coran | 1 feuillet de Coran manuscrit persan, moghol, Safavide. |
1600/1650 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 110.09 | |
| 102994140 | Coran | 2 feuillets simples de Coran manuscrit persan, moghol, Safavide. |
1650/1600 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 79.57 | |
| 102994269 | Coran | 2 feuillets simple de Coran manuscrit persan, moghol, Safavide. |
1600/1650 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 141.70 | |
| 102994306 | Coran | 3 feuillets simples de Coran manuscrit persan, moghol, Safavide. |
1600/1650 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 59.95 | |
| 103025529 | Autografo | Antonio Maura. Presidente Consejo de Ministros Rey Alfonso XIII. Ano 1917. Carta manuscrita. |
1917 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 85.02 | |
| 103194145 | Regno Due Sicilie | Regno delle Due Sicilie - Raro Passaporto (Carta di Passaggio) - Ferdinando II di Borbone - 1842 |
1842 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 47.96 | |
| 103194403 | Famiglia Capizzi | Manoscritto Notarile del XVI Secolo – Famiglia Nobile Capizzi di Piazza Armerina (Sicilia) – Raro |
1600 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103194548 | Ambasciata | Manoscritto Diplomatico (1733) – Giustificazione di Guerra tra Spagna e Impero Austro-Ungarico |
1733 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103365371 | Reine Marie-Amelie de Bourbon | Lettre autographe signee |
1840 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 245.25 | |
| 103379360 | Hendrik Tollens Cz; Rhijnvis Feith; Gerrit vd Linde; A. Boxman; A. von Kotzebue; M. Claudius; Etc. | Large collection of classic poems/plays [Dutch language] |
1829/1820 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 272.50 | |
| 103380893 | Louis XV [secretaire] | Lettre de cachet signee et contresignee par Phelypeaux |
1739 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 92.65 | |
| 103392804 | Manuscrito | Real decreto de Reina gobernadora Maria Cristina de Borbon-Dos Sicilias. Mayordomo Real |
1835 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 61.04 | |
| 103407679 | Signe ; Napoleon Bonaparte [de sa main] | Belle et grande licence Speciale de Navigation signee - Blocus Continental – Bordeaux/Angleterre |
1813 | EUR 2,800.00 - 3,100.00 | EUR 2,943.00 | |
| 103434600 | Edouard Detaille | Une lettre autographe signee et un telegramme autographe signe |
1891 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 54.50 | |
| 103435695 | Camille Saint-Saens | Belle lettre autographe signee a Albert Carre - Opera Comique : Devries, Cesbron, Carbonne |
1904 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 283.40 | |
| 103447191 | Sully Prudhomme - Poemes Le Bonheur et L'Herbier | Deux lettres et une carte autographes signees avec enveloppes a Philippe Gille |
1888 | EUR 220.00 - 250.00 | EUR 164.59 | |
| 103496767 | Guy des Cars | Lettre autographe signee - Genese de son premier best-seller "L'Officier sans nom" |
1941 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103499586 | Henri Bernstein | Lettre autographe signee a propos de sa piece "Le Secret" et de Loie Fuller |
1912 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 82.84 | |
| 103516513 | Andrea Zanzotto | Lettera autografa |
1996 | Not Available | EUR 27.25 |
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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 -
Forum Auctions
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