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Burgersdijk and Niermans: Books - Session 4

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Auction Name	Books - Session 4	Total Sales (EUR)	157,786.06
Auction Date	November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	81,480.00
Sale Number	#362d	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	101,660.00
Total Lots	260
Sold Lots	209.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	111,920.00
% of Lots Sold	80.38%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	137,650.00
Unsold Lots	51	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	114.63%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1058	VALENTYN, Fr.	MALAY ARCHIPELAGO -- Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, vervattende Een Naaukeurige en Uitvoerige Verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd In die Gewesten, benevens Eene wydlustige Beschryvinge der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, [...]...	1724-26	EUR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 14,478.20
1096	SCHNEEVOOGT, G.	BOTANY -- Voorhelm. Icones Plantarum Rariorum. Afbeeldingen van zeldzaame en fraaije Bloem- en Plant-Gewassen	[1792-]1793[-1795]	EUR 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 9,213.40
1042		LEIDEN -- "LUGDUNUM BATAVORUM Anno 1670"	-1674	EUR 6,500.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 8,555.30
1086	VESALIUS, A.	ANATOMY -- Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Cura H. Boerhaave & B.S. Albini	1725	EUR 2,600.00 - 3,200.00	EUR 5,264.80
1093	DODONAEUS (DODOENS), R.	BOTANY -- Cruydt-boeck volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe: Met bijvoeghsels achter elck Capitel, uyt verscheyden Cruydt-beschrijvers: Item, in 't laetste een Beschryvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften van C. Clusius	1644	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 5,264.80
1079	COWPER, G.	ANATOMY -- The Anatomy of Humane Bodies (...) to which is added, an Introduction, explaining the Animal Oeconomy, with a copious index	1698	EUR 2,400.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,948.60
993		BIBLIA NEERLANDICA -- ALDERNOUWKEURIGSTE VERHANDELINGE der geschiedenissen van het Nieuw Testament	1783	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 3,422.12
1059	DESSEINE, F.	ROME -- Beschryving van oud en nieuw Rome	1704	EUR 2,400.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,158.88
924	JEAN PAUL (= Jean Paul Friedrich Richter) (1763-1825)	Autograph letter to Heinrich Voss	12 June 1804	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 2,500.78
1055		WITT -- BRIEVEN geschreven ende gewisselt tusschen J. de Witt ende de gevolmaghtigden v.d. Staedt der Vereen. Nederlanden, so in Vranckryck, Engelandt, Sweden, Denemarcken, Poolen, enz.	1723-25	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,500.78
1034		HEDENDAAGSCHE HISTORIE, of tegenwoordige staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden	1739-59	EUR 950.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 2,369.16
917		"ELEMENTA GEOMETRIAE. Elementorum geometriae liber primus doctrina proportionum et progressionum tum arithmethicarum tum geometricarum"	(18th c.)	EUR 650.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,105.92
971	TACITUS	Opera quae exstant. Iustus Lipsius postremum recensuit	1606	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,842.68
1130	CHAMBERS, (W.)	ARCHITECTURE -- Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils. To which is annexed, a Description of their Temples, Houses, Gardens, &c.	1757	EUR 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,842.68
1003	MOUBACH, A.	Naaukeurige beschryving der uitwendige godtsdienst-plichten, kerk-zeden en gewoontens van alle volkeren der waereldt	1727-38	EUR 650.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,711.06
1050	(DOU, J.J. & S. v. BROECKHUYSEN)	POLDER MAPS -- RIJNLAND -- 't Hooge Heemraedschap van Rhynland. (...) vernieuwd, geamplieerd en gecorrigeerd (d. M. Bolstra)		EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,711.06
962	MEURSIUS, J.	Athenae Atticae. Sive, De praecipius Athenarum antiquitatibus, ll. III	1624	EUR 550.00 - 700.00	EUR 1,579.44
1019	SACHS, H.	Wie syben Weyber uber ihre ungeratene Menner klagen	(n.d. (c. 1553))	EUR 160.00 - 200.00	EUR 1,447.82
1028		BOR, P.Chr. Oorsprongk, begin & vervolgh der Ned. oorlogen, beroerten & borgerlyke oneenigheden; (...), & eindigende met het einde van 't jaer MDC. Voorts met een byvoegsel van authentyke stukken & nieuwe registers verm	1679-84	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,447.82
937		UTRECHT -- "ROLLE EN KORTE HISTORIJ van de Bisschoppen van Utrecht door Petrus Corn"	1722	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,316.20
999		BIBLIA NEERLANDICA -- BIBLIA, Dat is De gantsche H. Schriftuure vervattende alle de Boeken des O. ende N. Testaments	1702	EUR 600.00 - 650.00	EUR 1,316.20
1147	GUILLAIN, C.	MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- Voyage a la Cote orientale d'Afrique execute pendant les annees 1846, 1847 et 1848 par le brick Le Ducouedic	-1857	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,250.39
1146	KOEHOORN (COEHOORN), M. v.	Nieuwe Vestingbouw, Op een natte of lage horisont...	1702	EUR 550.00 - 700.00	EUR 1,184.58
910	BIJLAERT/BYLAERT/BIJLART, Johan Jacob (1734-1809)	(Watercolour coats of arms of Dutch nobility)	1786	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,118.77
953		GNOMOLOGIAI palaiotaton poieton	1553	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,118.77

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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.