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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)	10,664.56
Auction Date	May 12, 2025 - May 12, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	14,880.00
Sale Number	#51225b	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	27,300.00
Total Lots	72
Sold Lots	59.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	22,025.00
% of Lots Sold	81.94%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	38,530.00
Unsold Lots	13	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	27.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
95204463	Ludovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso [51 woodcuts]	1556	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,035.50
95282052	Joost van den Vondel	Vorstelijcke Warande Der Dieren 1e druk, De vernieuwde gulden winckel, De Helden Godes des verbonds	1617	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 654.00
95304606	Tirinus	Commentarivs	1645	EUR 450.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 479.60
95296635	Thomas Burnet	The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of thre Original of the Earth, ... Concerning The	1697	EUR 450.00 - 900.00	EUR 436.00
95304506	Corte	Il Cavallerizzo	1573	EUR 650.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 434.91
95204425	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Opera Omnia de M. Tullio Cicerone	1588	EUR 350.00 - 500.00	EUR 370.60
95255303	Pedro Gonzalez de Salcedo	Tractatus de Lege politica eiusque naturali executione, & Obligatione	1642	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 327.00
95236011	Louis Le Comte	Beschryvinge van het machtige keyserryk China	1698	EUR 275.00 - 350.00	EUR 305.20
95243564	Alphonsi De Olea	Tractatus de cessione iurium, et actionum	1658	EUR 170.00 - 500.00	EUR 305.20
95304452	Nannini	Orationi Militari	1557	EUR 450.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 299.75
94953045	Isocrate	ISOKRATOYS LOGOI KAI EPISTOLAI -Orationes et epistolae.	1621	EUR 500.00 - 900.00	EUR 267.05
95269647	Homerus / Huges Salel / Karel van Mander	De eerste 12. boecken vande Ilyadas beschreven in't Grieks door Homerum Vader ende Prince alder	1611	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 261.60
94950346	Platina	Vite de' Pontefici	1572	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 245.25
95037187	Boccalini	Ragguagli di Parnaso	1612/1613	EUR 500.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 245.25
95229611	Alessandro Benedetti	1572 Il Fatto d'Arme del Tarro -Assedio di Novara - Discesa di Carlo VIII in Italia	1549	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 239.80
95305406	[Justinien] Denis Godefroy	Codicis Justiniani DN. Sacratissimi principis pp. Avg. [Code Justinien]	1624	EUR 275.00 - 500.00	EUR 223.45
95228241	Bellarmino R., Myricaeus Johann Caspar	Institutiones Linguae Hebraicae & Prima Linguae Syrae Iesu Christo Vernaculae Elementa.	1622/1619	EUR 325.00 - 400.00	EUR 222.36
95230849	Caratteristiche di Iustinianus / Jacobo Anello De Bottis / Augufino Caravita / Ioanne Crispo Montano	Volumen Legum - Institutionum	1621	EUR 210.00 - 300.00	EUR 207.10
95284589	Boccalini	Commentarii sopra Cornelio Tacito	1677	EUR 400.00 - 900.00	EUR 201.65
94750406	Ludovico Velazquez de Avendano	Tractatus de censibus Hispaniae continens librum vnum, et centum & vndecim quaestiones...	1614	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 196.20
95289312	Ciampini, Giovanni Giustino	Vetera Monimenta, in quibus praecipue musiva opera sacrarum, profanarumque aedium structura, ac,	1690	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 191.84
95284667	Wilhelmus Goeree	Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke - met (grote) gravures	1700	EUR 220.00 - 270.00	EUR 175.49
95241420	Girolamo Magno Cavallo, Thomasso Porcacchi	Giustino Historico nelle Historie di Trogo Pompeo	1561	EUR 220.00 - 500.00	EUR 174.40
95267097	D.D Melchioris Pelaez A Meres	Tractatus majoratuum et meliorationum Hispaniae, quatuor constans partibus. [.] Nova editio	1678	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 168.95
95252846	Franciscus Costerus	Bewiis der ovder catholiicker leeringhe met andtvvoorde op sommighe teghenstellinghen	1601	EUR 180.00 - 210.00	EUR 163.50

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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.