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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (pre-1800) - bidstart 4/8

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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (pre-1800) - bidstart 4/8 Total Sales (EUR) 11,948.58
Auction Date April 20, 2022 - April 20, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 3,355.00
Sale Number #42022 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 4,375.00
Total Lots 125
Sold Lots 107 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 9,765.00
% of Lots Sold 85.60% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 11,906.00
Unsold Lots 18 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 100.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
56208615 André Campra

Motets à I, II et III voix avec la basse continue/et instruments

1700/1703 Not Available EUR 1,088.91
57621725 Catrou & Rouille

Histoire romaine depuis la fondation de Rome avec des notes historiques

1725 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 555.90
57631765 François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon

Directions pour la conscience d’un roi, composées pour l’instruction de Louis de France, duc de Bour

1747 Not Available EUR 485.05
57539011 Rétif de la Bretonnerie

Les nouveaux mémoires d'un homme de qualité

1774 Not Available EUR 362.97
57549293 Montesqieu

De l'esprit des Loix

1749 Not Available EUR 333.54
57626781 Jacob-Nicolas Moreau

Les devoirs du Prince réduits à un seul principe, ou Discours sur la justice, dédié au Roi

1775 Not Available EUR 322.64
54820385 André Grétry

Mémoires ou essais sur la Musique, par le Citoyen Grétry

1797 Not Available EUR 284.49
57559235 Noël-Antoine Pluche

Le Spectacle de la Nature ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'Histoire naturelle

1735/1739 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 261.60
57627301 H.G. Duchesne

Dictionnaire de l'industrie

1776 EUR 275.00 - 375.00 EUR 261.60
57566343 Epictète

Le Manuel d'Epictète et les Commentaires de Simplicius

1715 Not Available EUR 250.70
57711539 Charles Rollin

Histoire ancienne des Égyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Mèdes ...

1737 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 241.98
57653299 Capitaine Charles Johnson

Histoire des Pirates Anglois

1726 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 239.80
57707569 Encyclopédie Panckoucke

Recueil de 135 Planches relatives à la Soierie - Manufactures, arts et métiers

1789 Not Available EUR 234.35
57675229 Moncrif, Dorat, Bainville, Saurin, Berquin, Bernard, etc

Chansons choisies, avec les airs notés. Chansons anciennes, érotiques, anacréontiques, pastorales

1782 Not Available EUR 192.93
57590861 Abbé Le François

Méthode abrégée et facile pour apprendre la géographie

1751 Not Available EUR 187.48
57705363 M. Nicolas Venette

La Génération de L'Homme ou Tableau de L'Amour Conjugal

1789 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 185.30
57519861 République française et Société de Géographes

La République Française en LXXXVIII départemens

1795 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 174.40
57551155 Assemblée nationale - Louis XVI

La Constitution française

1791 Not Available EUR 174.40
57662915 Buffon

Histoire Naturelle des oiseaux : Le Faucon, les Chouettes, l'Autruche, etc...

1799 Not Available EUR 174.40
57704753 Charles Palissot / Charles Monnet & Méon

Oeuvres de M. Palissot. Nouvelle édition augmentée enrichie de figures. La Dunciade, Rome, Voltaire

1777 Not Available EUR 174.40
55190565 Henri Cochin

Oeuvres de feu M. Cochin, Ecuyer, avocat au parlement

1771 EUR 165.00 - 200.00 EUR 163.50
57550763 Pacot

Figues de la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ

1729 EUR 165.00 - 200.00 EUR 163.50
57763735 Charles Rollin

De la manière d’enseigner et d’étudier les Belles lettres

1755 Not Available EUR 148.24
57703693 Richardson; Diderot; Chodowiecki ; Le Tourneur

Clarisse Harlowe.?

1785 Not Available EUR 142.79
57544259 Gravina

Esprit des Loix Romaines ouvrage traduit du Latin par M. Requier.

1766 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 141.70
  • 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.
  • 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
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