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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) 26,670.12
Auction Date September 28, 2025 - September 28, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 20,060.00
Sale Number #92825e High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 40,050.00
Total Lots 73
Sold Lots 39.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 44,440.00
% of Lots Sold 53.42% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 87,425.00
Unsold Lots 34 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 30.51%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
97947833 Apollonius de Perge ; Abraham Ecchellensis ; Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

Apollonii Pergaei conicorum lib. V, VI, VII [Coniques]

1661 EUR 220.00 - 500.00 EUR 4,850.50
97835824 INCUNABLE IMP. SUR VELIN

Heures a l'usage de Paris. Horae ad usum Parisiensem

1497 EUR 3,300.00 - 5,500.00 EUR 4,033.00
97934135

Anno 1671 Augsburg Simon Utzschneider, Bauernkalender, Astronomie, Weissagungen

1671 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 1,367.95
97856771 Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

Proverbium Chiliadas

1523 EUR 900.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,309.09
97805279 Athanasius Kircher

Scrutinium Physico-Medicum Contagiosae Lues quae dicitur Pestis

1659 EUR 1,100.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 981.00
97931919 Joost van den Vondel, illustrations by Marcus Gheeraerts

Vorstelijcke Warande Der Dieren (The Royal Park of Animals)

1717/1707 EUR 950.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 915.60
97930939 Luis de Molina

De Iustitia et Iure, Tomus II [Rare Folio]

1597 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 893.80
97926402 Sannazaro

Arcadia/Sonetti e Canzoni

1534 EUR 900.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 872.00
97052917 Caspar Merian

Topographia Circuli Burgundici

1654 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 763.00
97928399 Antoine de Bourgogne / Abraham van Diepenbeeck / Andries Pauwels / Theodor van Merlen

Des Wereldts Proef-Steen (Emblems Book) first edition

1643 EUR 900.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 763.00
97632589 Gerard Brandt / Sebastiaan Stoopendaal / Joseph Mulder

[VOC] Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter

1701/1699 EUR 650.00 - 950.00 EUR 746.65
97900404 Ioannes Damascenus

Ta tou makariou Ioannou tou Damaskh nou herga. Beati Ioannis Damasceni opera

1559 EUR 220.00 - 500.00 EUR 599.50
97934909 Fuchs

Plantarum omnium

1542 EUR 800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 545.00
97986857 Barthelemy Pardoux (Bartholomaei Perdvlicis)

Universae Medicinae

1650 EUR 170.00 - 450.00 EUR 502.49
97854946 Martin Luther / Peter Gottland

Der dritte Teil aller Bucher vnd Schrifften des thewren seligen Mans Gottes Doct. Mart. Luther

1574 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 501.40
97909148 Compilation

Liber VI Decretalium

1549 EUR 700.00 - 850.00 EUR 501.40
97920695 Alessandro Adimari / Arsenio Arena

La Clio overo cinquanta sonetti; La Tersicore o vero Scherzi; Asilia madrigali

1610/1639 EUR 700.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 485.05
97935910 [Emblemata] Sancta Clara Abraham

Eine kurtze Beschreibung allerley Stands- Ambts- und Gewerbs-Persohnen [100 planches gravees]

1699 EUR 220.00 - 800.00 EUR 468.70
80818147 Athenaios (da Naukratis)

" Dipnosophistarum sive coenae sapientum libri XV,Natale de Comitibus...."

1556 EUR 450.00 - 750.00 EUR 436.00
91927929 Euclide & R.P. / G. Fournier

Les Elements d'Euclide Expliquez

1654 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 436.00
97681875 Joost van den Vondel

Convoluut 5 .o.a. emblematische werken: Vorstelijcke Warande Der Dieren, Toonneel des menschelyken

1698 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 402.21
97890647 (Francois Eudes de) Mezeray

Abrege chronologique, ou extrait de l'histoire de France par le sieur de Mezeray

1668 EUR 375.00 - 500.00 EUR 381.50
97955344 Johannes Gerhard Scheffer, Jan Luyken

Waarachtige en aen-merkens-waardige historie van Lapland: ofte een beschrijving van desselfs

1682 EUR 500.00 - 650.00 EUR 327.00
97829838 Ludovico Ariosto (1474--1533)

Il Negromante. Comedia di M. Lodovico Ariosto

1551 EUR 350.00 - 800.00 EUR 305.20
97888104 Jean Papon

Recueil d'Arrests notables des cours souveraines de France; ordonnez par titres en vingt quatre

1564 EUR 400.00 - 700.00 EUR 305.20
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.