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

Auction Reports

Auction Name Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) Total Sales (EUR) 86,611.40
Auction Date November 17, 2025 - November 17, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 128,340.00
Sale Number #111725 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 207,585.00
Total Lots 159
Sold Lots 131.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 161,795.00
% of Lots Sold 82.39% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 266,735.00
Unsold Lots 28 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 32.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
97918314 Stoeffler

[Post Incunable] Calendarium Romanum

1518 EUR 8,300.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 8,175.00
98830966 Finely Illuminated Book of Hours

Painted on parchment

1490 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 8,175.00
95824358 Vesalio

Anatomia

1604 EUR 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 6,540.00
98283840 Danthe

Comedia del Divino Poeta

1536 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 3,706.00
97903910 Dante

[Comedia] - con l'espositione di Christoforo Landino et di Alessandro Vellutello

1564 EUR 4,200.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,161.00
98145802 Du Laurens

Historia Anatomica Humani Corporis

1600 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 3,161.00
97921412 Meerbeeck

Chroniicke

1620 EUR 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 2,888.50
98594820 de L'Orme

Architecture / Nouvelles Inventions pour bien Bastir

1626 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 2,343.50
98533789 Dionysius

[Incunable] De Situ Orbis

1498 EUR 2,800.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 2,180.00
97216164 Apuleio

[Post Incunable] Asinu Aureu - Asino d'Oro

1504 EUR 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,745.09
97699997 Sant'Agostino

[Incunable] Sancti Augustini ad Heremitas

1501 EUR 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,635.00
97925659 Orazio

[Binding] Poemata

1591 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,635.00
98052107 Alberti

Descrittione di Tutta Italia

1550 EUR 1,700.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,635.00
98067656 Galeno

Operum Omnium

1545 EUR 1,700.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,526.00
98454614 Panvino

Antiquitatum Veronensium

1648 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 1,417.00
97357126 Pozzo

Rules and examples of perspective for painters and architects

1725 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 1,308.00
98723547 Grapaldi

[Incunable] De Partibus Aedium

1501 EUR 1,700.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,308.00
98722449 Anne d'Autriche, Reine de France

Exemplaire Personnel

1660 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 1,277.48
97776776 Tartaglia

Libro delli Quesiti

1538 EUR 1,400.00 - 2,600.00 EUR 1,226.25
97923836 Petrarca / Vellutello

Il Petrarcha

1545 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,199.00
97656925 Gregorio IX

[Post Incunable] Decretales [Bound w:] Decretalium libellus

1505 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,117.25
98231273 Gallonio

Martyrum Cruciatibus

1594 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 1,035.50
97466055 Perrault

Five Orders of Columns in Architecture

1708 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 981.00
98618770 Euclide / Clavio

Euclidis Elementorum

1603 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,700.00 EUR 981.00
98724307 Teofilatto di Bulgaria

Iesu Christi Evangelia

1542 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 926.50
  • Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000