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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)	4,090.77
Auction Date	October 11, 2025 - October 11, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	6,475.00
Sale Number	#101125b	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	0.00
Total Lots	43
Sold Lots	42.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	6,625.00
% of Lots Sold	97.67%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	0.00
Unsold Lots	1	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
97533842	Dominique Jaquinot / Jacques Bassentin	L'usage de l'astrolabe, avec un petit traicte de la sphere	1560	EUR 200.00 - 0.00	EUR 425.10
98285147		David Kandel, Rinoceronte del Durer, 1598 dalla Cosmographia Universalis del Munster.	1598	EUR 130.00 - 0.00	EUR 283.40
98221970		Conrad Gesner [Konrad Gessner] 1516-1565: Fishbuch: Sea Monsters, whales - Folio with 5 woodcuts	1620	EUR 200.00 - 0.00	EUR 241.98
98147924		Leonhard Fuchs - Large folio with large woodcut of Meadow Sage [Scharlach]	1543	EUR 160.00 - 0.00	EUR 185.30
98252855	Sebastian Munster	Cosmographia	1590	EUR 250.00 - 0.00	EUR 163.50
98175331		Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - hand coloured engraving: Stick Insects, Locusts, Grasshoppers,	1657	EUR 140.00 - 0.00	EUR 153.69
98148872		Giorgio Liberale; W. Meyerpeck - Folio, 2 large woodcuts, Botany, herbs: Melissa, Lemonbalm,	1565	EUR 150.00 - 0.00	EUR 141.70
98272939	Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut/ Wilhelm Pleydenwurff	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 250.00 - 0.00	EUR 141.70
98270199	Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut/ Wilhelm Pleydenwurff	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 150.00 - 0.00	EUR 119.90
98222278		Hans Weiditz (1500-1536) - Medieval Life: Death, Plague - 2 woodcuts	1532	EUR 140.00 - 0.00	EUR 106.82
98270756	Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut/ Wilhelm Pleydenwurff	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 250.00 - 0.00	EUR 103.55
98255602	Sebastian Munster	Cosmographia	1590	EUR 250.00 - 0.00	EUR 99.19
98251811	Sebastian Munster	Cosmographia	1590	EUR 250.00 - 0.00	EUR 98.10
98273326	Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut/ Wilhelm Pleydenwurff	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 250.00 - 0.00	EUR 98.10
98196925		Heinrich Vogtherr (the Elder) (1490-1556): Folio with woodcuts: Alaric I & the Sack of Rome in 410	1548	EUR 140.00 - 0.00	EUR 97.01
98262397		Untitled	1628	EUR 150.00 - 0.00	EUR 94.83
98148271		Master of Gruninger Workshop, Virgil - Aeneid - Queen Amata's Suicide, Battle scene	1517	EUR 170.00 - 0.00	EUR 92.65
98295379		Master of Gruninger Workshop, Virgil - Aeneid - The Council of the Gods	1517	EUR 170.00 - 0.00	EUR 92.65
98255427	Sebastian Munster	Cosmographia	1590	EUR 250.00 - 0.00	EUR 88.29
98222117		Hans Weiditz (1500-1536) - Medieval Life: Preparing Knights in Armour	1532	EUR 130.00 - 0.00	EUR 83.93
98147486		Conrad Gesner [Konrad Gessner] 1516-1565: Fischbuch: Centrina Shark, Fish - Folio with large woodcut	1620	EUR 130.00 - 0.00	EUR 77.39
98175082		Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - hand coloured engraving with birds: Sparrow hawks, Kestrel, Falcon	1657	EUR 140.00 - 0.00	EUR 77.39
98175918		Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Geese, Bunting ornithology - Woodcut folio	1582	EUR 150.00 - 0.00	EUR 73.03
98252027	Sebastian Munster	Cosmographia	1590	EUR 250.00 - 0.00	EUR 73.03
98262607		Untitled	1628	EUR 150.00 - 0.00	EUR 69.76

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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.