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

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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
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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