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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 4/16

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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 4/16 Total Sales (EUR) 18,499.96
Auction Date April 28, 2021 - April 28, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 6,070.00
Sale Number #42821 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 7,750.00
Total Lots 143
Sold Lots 132 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 9,500.00
% of Lots Sold 92.31% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 11,790.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 156.91%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
47349237 James Cook

Voyage Au Pôle Austral Et Autour Du Monde

1778 Not Available EUR 1,090.00
47461999 J. Pote

Les Delices de Windsore

1769 EUR 250.00 - 280.00 EUR 926.50
47284317 Guillaume Thomas Raynal

histoire philosophique et politique

1781 Not Available EUR 555.90
47355143 George Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux

1770 Not Available EUR 545.00
47412129

Les vies des Saints, composées sur ce qui nous est resté de plus authentique & de plus assuré de ...

1724 EUR 550.00 - 620.00 EUR 545.00
47406541 M. Bigot De Morogues

Essay de L'Application des Forces Centrales Aux Effets de la Poudre A Canon

1732 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 446.90
47268513 Edmé Jean Antoine du Puget

Essai sur l'usage de l'artillerie, dans la Guerre de Campagne

1771 Not Available EUR 427.28
47269419 La Martinie?re / Besogne / Trabouillet / Ange

L'Etat de la France, contenant les princes, ducs et pairs, et maréchaux de France

1727 Not Available EUR 414.20
47479851 Lamarck, Redoute, Benard

Tableaux encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Mollusques testacés.

1797 Not Available EUR 402.06
47294141 Voltaire

Essai sur l’histoire générale et sur les moeurs et l’esprit des nations, Nouvelle Édition revue, cor

1764 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 397.85
44304151 Edme Gilles Guyot

Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques

1799 EUR 530.00 - 590.00 EUR 371.69
47368717 Engelbert Kaempfer

Histoire naturelle, civile et ecclésiastique de l'empire du Japon

1735 EUR 550.00 - 610.00 EUR 327.00
47265483 Guilleman de St Victor

Recueil Precieux de la Franc Maçonnerie Adonhiramite + la Vrai Maconnerie D'Adaption

1787 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 285.58
47291241 Samuel Auguste Tissot

Dictionnaire Des Pronostics, ou l'art de prévoir les bons ou les mauvais evénemens Dans Les Maladies

1770 Not Available EUR 285.58
47356389 Madeleine de Scudéry

Esprit de Mademoiselle de Scuderi

1766 Not Available EUR 264.87
47206807 M. Mariotte

Traité du Mouvement des Eaux et des Autres Corps Fluides

1718 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 261.60
47340447 Corneille Stalpart Van Der Wiel - François Planque

Observations rares de médecine, d'anatomie et de chirurgie

1758 EUR 165.00 - 200.00 EUR 246.34
47206799 J.J. Rousseau

Du Contract Social Ou Principes du Droit Politique

1762 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 245.25
47422953 Bernard Forest de Belidor

Architecture hydraulique ou l'art de conduire, d'élever et de ménager les eaux

1782 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 240.89
47293687 M. de Folard

Projet d'un ordre françois en tactique ou phalange coupée et doublée

1755 Not Available EUR 239.80
47406661 Mr De Fontenelle

Entretiens Sur La Pluralité des Mondes

1757 Not Available EUR 239.80
47418403 André Lens

Le costume ou essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l'Antiquité

1776 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 223.45
47265945 Voltaire

La Ligue ou Henry le Grand. Poëme épique

1724 Not Available EUR 219.09
47423465 Abbé Noel Antoine Pluche

Histoire du Ciel Où L'On Recherche L'Origine de L’idolâtrie Et Les Méprises de la Philosophie

1757 Not Available EUR 209.28
47263847 Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

Lettres persanes

1730 Not Available EUR 207.10
  • 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.
  • 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
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