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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 9/4

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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 9/4 Total Sales (EUR) 11,163.78
Auction Date September 16, 2020 - September 16, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 5,500.00
Sale Number #91620 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 6,745.00
Total Lots 105
Sold Lots 94 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 7,590.00
% of Lots Sold 89.52% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 9,405.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 118.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
40365627 Milton / Schall

Le Paradis Perdu

1792 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 EUR 874.18
40336461 Surirey de Saint Remy

Mémoires d'artillerie.

1745 Not Available EUR 818.59
40401061 Frezier

Traitè des Feux d'Artifice pour le Spectacle

1747 EUR 280.00 - 350.00 EUR 379.32
40280569 M. Bouguer

Nouveau traite de navigation, contenant la theorie et la pratique du pilotage

1753 Not Available EUR 365.15
40165869 Denis Diderot & Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

Recueil De Planches Sur Les Sciences Les Arts Liberaux Et Les Arts Mechaniques

1763 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.00
40293259

Histoire universelle, l'histoire moderne de tous les empires, royaumes, états, republiques etc....

1760/1762 Not Available EUR 327.00
40426403 Antoine Baume

Chymie expérimentale et raisonnee

1773 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 327.00
40441117 Restif de la Bretonne

Le Pornographe

1769 Not Available EUR 313.92
40181079

Recueil de chansons vaudevilles Tome II

1700 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 276.86
40222131 Joseph Antoine Cerutti

Recueil de quelques pieces de litterature, en prose et en vers & Les Jardins de Betz

1792/1784 Not Available EUR 250.70
39938737

Le Prince Ananas et la Princesse Moustelle

1750 Not Available EUR 241.98
39490547 [Jean-Baptiste Chrstyn]

Les Délices des Pais-bas

1700 EUR 375.00 - 475.00 EUR 239.80
40290953 P.G. Daniel

Histoire de France, depuis l'Etablissement de la Monarchie Françoise dans les Gaules

1729 Not Available EUR 239.80
40081031 Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Lettres persanes

1761 Not Available EUR 218.00
40292873 ?Diderot et d'Alembert

Recueil de planches. Tome 2

1779 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 218.00
40434529 M.L'Abbé NOLLET

Leçons de Physique Expérimentale

1765/1779 Not Available EUR 218.00
40105829 Du Guay-Trouin

Mémoires Du Guay-Trouin Lieutenant-Général des Armées Navales

1779 Not Available EUR 196.20
40327037 Louis-Etienne Arcère

Histoire de la ville de la Rochelle et du pays d'Aulnis

1756 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 186.39
40346731 Johann Christoph Hafner

Emblemata. Catéchisme catholique illustré de 94 planches à l'usage des illettrés.

1709 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 180.94
40370937 Bradley

Nouvelles Observations Physiques et Pratiques sur la Jardinage et l'Art de Planter...

1756 Not Available EUR 174.40
40367599 Buffon

Les époques de la nature

1785 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 163.50
40413449 J. J. Rousseau

Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité parmi les Hommes (London edition)

1782 Not Available EUR 163.50
39939179 M. Pascal

Pensées de M. Pascal sur la Religion

1725 Not Available EUR 152.60
40322883 Joseph Delaporte

Le voyageur françois: L'Espagne

1772 Not Available EUR 147.15
39965849 Jean Jacques Rousseau

La Nouvelle Héloise

1788 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 141.70
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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