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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) 31,195.80
Auction Date October 10, 2025 - October 10, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 36,070.00
Sale Number #101025a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 69,750.00
Total Lots 47
Sold Lots 27.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 67,440.00
% of Lots Sold 57.45% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 121,800.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 25.61%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
98078366 Paracelsus

Archidoxa (bound with)//:

1570 EUR 5,500.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 5,124.09
98045527

Andreas Kellner - Kercken Ordeninge im Lande tho Pammem und Agenda / Ordnung der heiligen Ceremonien

1568/1591 EUR 2,700.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 2,452.50
97964567 N.N.

Psalterium ad decantanda in choro officia ecclesiastica accommodatissimum - fraaie typografie, veel

1574 EUR 4,100.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 2,180.00
98011368 Girolamo Cardano / Ptolemy

de Astrorum Judiciis.... Commentaria [On Judging the Stars]

1555 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,700.00 EUR 2,169.10
98121356 Philibert De l'Orme (1514-1570)

Le premier tome de l'architecture

1568 EUR 2,100.00 - 5,500.00 EUR 2,071.00
98055226 Guilio Cesare (Jules Cesar) Vanini

Amphitheatrum Aeternae Providentiae Divino-Magicum

1615 EUR 220.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,650.26
97737204 Frere Anne de Naberat, Giacomo Bosio

Histoire de l'Ordre de Saint Jean de Hierusalem

1643/1625 EUR 1,100.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 1,635.00
97963654 Abraham Alewijn - Jacques Basnage - sieur de Beauval - Mattheus Gargon / Romeyn de Hooghe

[PRENTBIJBEL] 'T Groot Waerelds Tafereel (...) - 84 prentbladen door Romeyn de Hooghe + 4 kaarten

1715 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,471.50
98074230 J. H. van Linschoten

J. H. van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies

1598 EUR 1,400.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,308.00
98110276 Jacques Gaffarel

Curiositez inouyes sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans (Unheard-of Curiosities concerning

1650 EUR 1,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 1,225.16
98072737 Aloisio Giovannoli

Vedute degli antichi vestigj di Roma

1616 EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,216.44
94506339 Andrea Palladio

I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio

1616 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,199.00
98119389 Olaus Magnus (1490-1557)

Historia delle genti e della natura delle cose settentrionali

1565 EUR 2,100.00 - 5,500.00 EUR 1,199.00
98090138 Nicolaes Visscher (graveur)

Biblia dat is De ganttsche H. Schrifture

1654 EUR 1,400.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 982.09
98114769 Johan de Witt

Brieven van Johan de Witt

1723 EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 839.30
98104710 Sacrobosco

Sphaera

1580 EUR 800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 763.00
98119638 Guillaume du Choul

Discours de la Religion des Anciens Romains

1567 EUR 700.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 654.00
98071213 Viola Zanini Gioseffe.

Della Architettura. Libri due.

1629 EUR 800.00 - 950.00 EUR 599.50
98098243 par L.T.L.

Institvtion De La Femme Chrestienne Tant En Enfance, Mariage, Que Viduite: Ensemble Le Deuoir Du

1580 EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 509.03
98048237 Jeremias Drexel / Aegidius Sadeler

De Aeternitate Considerationes (Considerations On Eternity)

1634 EUR 400.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 381.50
98103980 Jehan de Vigo; Nicolaus Godin

La practique et chirurgie de Jehan de Vigo

1542 EUR 350.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 370.60
97611227 Francois Perrier (dit Le Bourguignon)

Ill[ustrissi]mo. D. D. Rogerio Du Plesseis d[omi]no. de Liancourt Marchioni de Montfort [96 gravures

1638 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 359.70
97967999 Iacqves Coret

Le Triomphe Des Vertvs Evangeliqves Represente Dans Les Actions Heroiqves De S. Aye Comptesse De

1674 EUR 700.00 - 850.00 EUR 227.81
97954454 Aegidio Gelenio

De Admiranda,Sacra, Et Civili Magnitvdine Coloniae Clavdiae Agrippinensis Avgvstae Vbiorum Vrbis

1645 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 220.18
97952526 .

Vlysses Germanicvs Id Est Totivs Germaniae Regionvm ,Civit Atvm ,Vlvviorum, montium,

1645 EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 154.78
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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.
  • 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.