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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) 16,430.66
Auction Date November 24, 2025 - November 24, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 25,920.00
Sale Number #112425 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 35,210.00
Total Lots 108
Sold Lots 78.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 50,555.00
% of Lots Sold 72.22% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 74,585.00
Unsold Lots 30 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 22.03%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99242885 Bartholomaeus Schonborn

[ASTRONOMY] Computus Astronomicus

1579 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,798.50
99247759 Ulisse Aldrovandi

[Zoology] De quadrupedibus solidipedibus volumen integrum

1648/1639 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,526.00
99184531 Andrea Alciato

Emblemi di Andrea Alciato huomo chiarissimo

1626 EUR 550.00 - 700.00 EUR 550.45
99139850 .

[Minaturbuch] Itinerarivm Benjaminis Latine Redditum Opera Const. L`Emperevr

1633 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 470.88
98952730

Biblia, Vulgata, IEsra - ncunable, Miniatura, Amanuensi, iniziale istoriata figurata

1482 EUR 550.00 - 750.00 EUR 469.79
99124596 Famiano Strada / Guillaume van Aelst

De thien eerste boecken der Nederlandtsche oorloghe. In 't Latijn beschreven door den Eerweerd. P.

1646 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 465.43
99234483 [Groot-mogende Heeren Staten, uitg.]

Hollandts placcaatboek

1645 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 436.00
99264505 Gerard Brandt

[VOC] Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter (...) - grote kaarten van zeeslagen

1686 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 397.85
99172633 A.Albertinus

Emblemata Hieropolitica.Versibus Et Prosa Illustrabat J.Melitanus

1647 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 393.49
99202187 D. Mario Reitani Spatafora

Il Rogiero in Sicilia

1698 EUR 400.00 - 450.00 EUR 381.50
99145361 W.G.V. Focquenbroch

Alle de wercken van W.G.V. Focquenbroch

1682 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 376.05
99197976 Landolfo di Sassonia [Ludolf von Sachsen] / Francesco Sansovino (transscription)

Vita di Giesu Christo nostro redentore, scritta da Landolfo di Sassonia, dell' ordine Certosino. Et

1570 EUR 170.00 - 350.00 EUR 376.05
98906904 Thomas d'Aquin

Sancti Thomae Aquinatis

1656 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 370.60
99176831 Aristotelis [ Aristotele ]

De moribus ad Nicomachum libri decem

1558 EUR 450.00 - 700.00 EUR 370.60
99258222 Polo Giovio

PAVLI IOVII NOVOCOMENSIS OPERA OMNIA

1578 EUR 550.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 348.80
99162383 Aristotle

[Greek] Aristotelis Politicorum Libri Octo

1549 EUR 200.00 - 450.00 EUR 327.00
99202691 Padre Fray Antonio Delgado Torreneyra

Avisos y documentos de prelados

1599 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 327.00
99237548 Francesco Guicciardini

La Historia d'Italia

1610 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.00
99209470 Gotschalci Holen

Sermones dominicales super epistolas

1520 EUR 750.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 308.47
99106282 [Alde Manuce] Catulle ; Tibulle ; Properce

[Opera]. Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius [Post-incunable]

1502 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 305.20
99079117 Jules Cesar

C. Ivlii Caesaris quae extant Ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri

1635 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 261.60
99175306 John Keill

An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. Together with some remarks on Mr. Whiston's New

1698 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 247.43
98906851 Saint Augustin

D. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi

1586 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 207.10
99187206 Christophorvs Cellarivs & Q. Cvrtivs Rvfvs

Q Cvrtii Rvfi De Rebvs Alexandri Magni Historia Svperstes

1696 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 202.74
99106497 [Jean Baptiste Callard de la Ducquerie]

Lexicon Medicum Etymologicum. In quo praeter tria Etymologiarum millia Medicinae, Chirurgiae,

1693 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 EUR 196.20
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000