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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (pre-1800) - bidstart 5/20

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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (pre-1800) - bidstart 5/20 Total Sales (EUR) 10,746.23
Auction Date June 01, 2022 - June 01, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 4,205.00
Sale Number #60122 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 5,473.00
Total Lots 98
Sold Lots 87 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 6,980.00
% of Lots Sold 88.78% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 8,913.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 120.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
58770445 Jospeh Priestley

Expériences et observations sur différentes espèces d'air

1777/1780 EUR 660.00 - 726.00 EUR 801.15
58898881 Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur

Encyclopédie des voyages - Asie

1796 Not Available EUR 607.13
58922381 Diderot & d Alembert

Recueil de planches sur les arts libéraux et les arts méchaniques

1765 EUR 210.00 - 235.00 EUR 528.65
58885179 Laurent d'Houry

Almanach royal, année commune M.CC LXXXIX

1789 Not Available EUR 512.30
58821961 Jean-Henri Castéra

Histoire De Catherine II, Impératrice De Russie

1799/1800 EUR 220.00 - 245.00 EUR 438.18
58980805 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke

Encyclopédie Méthodique - Ichtyologie

1788 Not Available EUR 425.10
58929893 Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont

Histoire et commerce des colonies angloises, dans l’Amérique septentrionale

1755 Not Available EUR 409.84
58931095 Guillaume-Michel Chabrol

Coutumes générales et locales de la province dAuvergne +Leur explication + Seigneurs

1784 Not Available EUR 403.30
58415315 Abbé Nollet

Leçons De Physique Expérimentale

1783/1770 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 362.97
58979981 Barbier

Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes... Suite des Supercheries Littéraires dévoilées par Querard

1872 Not Available EUR 322.13
58939317 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke

Encyclopédie Méthodique - Mathématiques + Dictionnaire des Jeux

1792/1785 Not Available EUR 272.50
58940029 Tarin

Ostéo-Graphie ou description des os de l'adulte...Des parties solides du corps humain

1753 Not Available EUR 223.45
58980225 Anonyme

La Chaîne d'or pour enlever les Ames de la Terre au Ciel

1710 Not Available EUR 221.27
58872655 François Babin / Jean-Pierre Cotelle de La Blandinière

Conférences ecclésiastiques du Diocèse d'Angers

1780/1778 Not Available EUR 218.00
58814491 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse

1773 Not Available EUR 190.75
58794473 Guillaume-François-Thomas Raynal

Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes

1781 Not Available EUR 188.57
58967985 Jean Huxham

?Essai sur les différentes espèces de fièvres avec des dissertations sur les fièvres lentes...

1776 Not Available EUR 182.03
58746745 Bacon Tacon

Essai sur la Théorie Militaire

1793 Not Available EUR 168.95
58860813 Gabriel Bonnot Abbé de Mably

Observations sur l'Histoire de France

1788 EUR 220.00 - 242.00 EUR 163.50
58825241 Buffon

Histoire Naturelle : Nomenclature des Singes

1799 Not Available EUR 141.70
58958039 M. Frezier

La théorie et la pratique de la coupe des pierres et des bois [...] Traité de stéréotomie...

1752 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 141.70
58870643 Claude-Louis Fourmont

Description historique et géographique des plaines d’Héliopolis et de Memphis

1755 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 130.80
58958073 M. De Fourcroy

Elémens D'Histoire Naturelle Et De Chimie

1786 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 130.80
58040363 Abbé Soumille

Le jeu du Trictrac

1715 Not Available EUR 125.35
58816871 Philidor - Hoyle

Académie universelle des jeux: Echecs, Billard, Whisk

1773 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 119.90
  • 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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