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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (pre-1800) - bidstart 12/24

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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (pre-1800) - bidstart 12/24 Total Sales (EUR) 21,888.03
Auction Date January 05, 2022 - January 05, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 7,440.00
Sale Number #10522 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 9,000.00
Total Lots 150
Sold Lots 139 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 12,800.00
% of Lots Sold 92.67% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 15,240.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 143.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
54300563 Jean Sylvain Bailly

?Lettres sur l'Origine des Sciences, et sur celle des Peuples d'Asie - Sur l'Atlantide de Platon

1779 Not Available EUR 1,203.36
54226963 Titon du Tillet

Le Parnasse François

1733/1732 EUR 720.00 - 800.00 EUR 953.75
54327825 Hugo Grotius

Le Droit de la guerre et de la paix. [Traduction nouvelle par Jean Barbeyrac]

1724 Not Available EUR 926.50
54296889 Joseph Pitton De Tournefort

Relation d ' un Voyage Du Levant

1717 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 872.00
53280779 Jonathan Swift

Voyages de Gulliver

1727 Not Available EUR 501.40
54230097 Jean Gaspard Lavater

Essai sur la physiognomonie, destiné à faire connaître l’Homme et à le faire aimer.

1781/1786 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 494.86
54299399 Pierre-Augustin Guys

Voyage litte?raire de la Gre?ce, ou lettre sur les Grecs, anciens et modernes [Turcs, Arméniens]

1783 Not Available EUR 459.98
54312711 Menon

La Cuisinière Bourgeoise

1779 Not Available EUR 414.20
54361395 Millot / Eisen, Gravelot, Saint-Aubin, Bolomey

Abrégé de l'histoire romaine, orné de 49 estampes gravées en taille-douce avec le plus grand soin

1789 Not Available EUR 405.48
54325963 Claude Etienne Savary

Lettres sur l’Égypte [mœurs anciennes & modernes de ses habitans - Pyramides Gizeh]

1786 Not Available EUR 396.76
54142727 Voltaire

Oeuvres complètes

1802/1792 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 348.80
54238209 Cervantes

Suite nouvelle et veritable de l'Histoire et des Avantures de Don Quichotte de La Manche

1741 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 348.80
54365029 [Transport - Cheval] Chesnaye des Bois

Le Parfait Cocher, ou l'Art d'entretenir, & de conduire un Equipage à Paris & en Campagne

1744 Not Available EUR 348.80
54245067 Samuel von Pufendorf / Bruzen de La Martinière

Introduction à l'Histoire générale et politique de l'univers : Suède, Italie, Venise, Suisse, France

1738 Not Available EUR 337.90
54316169 Monsieur Lemery

Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples, contenant leurs noms, origine, choix, principes

1759 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 327.00
54333939 [Daniel de La Feuille]

La science des Hieroglyphes, ou l'art d'exprimer par des figures symboliques, les vertus, les vices

1736 Not Available EUR 311.74
54260435 Jonathan Swift

Le Grand Mistere, ou L’Art de Mediter sur la Garderobe, Renouvellé et Devoilé

1729 Not Available EUR 305.20
54297629 Perrinet d'Orval

Traité des Feux D'artifice pour le Spectacle et pour la Guerre

1750 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 293.21
54334569 Occelos de Lucanie, Timée de Locres et Aristote [Traduction Charles Batteux]

?De la nature de l'Univers / De l'âme du monde / Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le système monde

1768 Not Available EUR 274.68
54269473 Louis-Sébastien Mercier

Tableau de Paris

1783/1781 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 273.59
54186013 Pitton Tournefort

Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris

1725 Not Available EUR 272.50
54307361 [Médecine] Jacques Croissant de Garengeot

Traité des Opérations de Chirurgie

1748 Not Available EUR 272.50
54322439 Bernard Laurent Soumille

Le grand Trictrac : ou Méthode facile pour apprendre sans maitre, la marche les règles.

1738 Not Available EUR 256.15
54206677 [Jeux] Bellecour

Acade?mie universelle des jeux : contenant les re?gles des jeux de Echecs, Trictrac, Billard, Paume

1737 Not Available EUR 239.80
54230815 Marillier - Ponce

Les Illustres Français, ou tableaux historiques des Grand Hommes de la France

1792 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 220.18
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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