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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700)

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700)	Total Sales (EUR)	18,902.78
Auction Date	January 13, 2025 - January 13, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	14,705.00
Sale Number	#11325b	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	27,525.00
Total Lots	102
Sold Lots	79.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	25,715.00
% of Lots Sold	77.45%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	44,825.00
Unsold Lots	23	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	42.17%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
92130757	[Post Incunable] - Garzoni	De Miseria Hu[m]ana	1505	EUR 1,400.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 981.00
92414777	Nicolas Le Pois or Nicolaus Piso	De Cognoscendis Et Curandis Praecipue Internis Humani Corporis Morbis or On Knowing and Treating	1580	EUR 800.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 872.00
92398355	O. Dapper	Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Gewesten van Egypten, Barbaryen, Libyen, Biledulgerid,	1676	EUR 600.00 - 750.00	EUR 825.13
92588499	Willem Baudartius (Baudat)	Polemographia AVRAICO-BEGICA	1621	EUR 220.00 - 400.00	EUR 728.12
92414805	Hugo Grotius or Hugo de Groot	De Veritate Religionis Christianae or On the Truth of the Christian Religion	1640	EUR 600.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 697.60
92167253	Lodovico Guicciardini	Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae, Regionum Descriptio: Ludovico Guicciardino (...)	1613	EUR 600.00 - 750.00	EUR 681.25
92535379	Renati Descartes	Principia Philosophiae	1664	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 610.40
92511025	Cornelis de Bruyn	Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio Rhodus...	1698	EUR 425.00 - 500.00	EUR 505.76
92395291	Matthys Balen	Beschrijvinge der Stad Dordrecht	1677	EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 457.80
92541821	Valere Maxime le Grand (Valerius Maximus)	Valere et le grand Contenant les exemples des faicts & dicts memorables tant des vertueux que des	1575	EUR 425.00 - 475.00	EUR 436.00
92578859	Antonio Donato	Donati Antonii ab Altomari medici...	1586	EUR 450.00 - 700.00	EUR 436.00
92623725	Johannes Scheffer	Neue und wahrhafftige Beschreibung von Lappland	1675	EUR 450.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 436.00
92374975	Gio. Battista della Porta	Della fisionomia Dell Huomo di Gio. Battista della Porta	1598	Not Available	EUR 425.10
92490211	Urbanus Rhegius	The Sermon, which Christ made on the way zu Emaus to those two sorofull disciples	1578	EUR 450.00 - 950.00	EUR 425.10
92572819	Jean Papon	Trias judiciel du second notaire... Notariat notariato giuridica legal	1575	EUR 170.00 - 350.00	EUR 425.10
92629275	Chrysostomos	Tertius Tomus Operum	1547	EUR 700.00 - 850.00	EUR 403.30
86238135	Van der Groen & Nyland	Nederlandtsen hovenier. 3 delen in 1 band	1696/1679	EUR 450.00 - 900.00	EUR 381.50
92273073	Thibaut	Course de Chymie de P. Thibaut	1672	EUR 350.00 - 550.00	EUR 370.60
89704073	Lactance; Johann Steels	Coelii Lactantii Firmiani divinarum institutionum libri septem ...	1570	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 359.70
92522349	Jean Fernel	Universa medicina a doctissimo... medico diligenter recognita, et ab innumeris mendis et erroribus	1627	EUR 250.00 - 280.00	EUR 337.90
92559961	Cyrille de Jerusalem	Cyrilli Hierosolymorum archiepiscopi opera quae reperiuntur	1640	EUR 375.00 - 425.00	EUR 296.48
92633743	Menasseh Ben Israel	Mishnayoth - Rare Hebrew Book	1646	EUR 275.00 - 350.00	EUR 269.23
92466199	Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut/ Wilhelm Pleydenwurff	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 170.00 - 200.00	EUR 263.78
92492863		The Arrest of Christ - Die Verhaftung Christi	1509	Not Available	EUR 261.60
92616543	Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut / Wilhelm Pleydenwurff	The Nuremberg Chronicle	1493	Not Available	EUR 261.60

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.