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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)	4,695.72
Auction Date	November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	9,325.00
Sale Number	#112625b	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	11,775.00
Total Lots	36
Sold Lots	31.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	15,625.00
% of Lots Sold	86.11%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	22,975.00
Unsold Lots	5	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	20.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
99034555	Rene Descartes	Meditationes de prima philosophia	1644	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 458.89
99097378	Michel de Montaigne	Les Essais	1636	EUR 325.00 - 400.00	EUR 414.20
99164691	Le Lorrain de Vallemont	La physique occulte, ou traite de la baguette... [occultisme Rhabdomancy]	1693	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 337.90
99245323	Claude de La Belliere (sieur de La Niolle, actif a Paris vers 1660 -- 1670)	La Physionomie raisonnee	1664	EUR 275.00 - 350.00	EUR 245.25
98986234	Saint Real	La Vie de Jesus Christ [Reliure aux armes]	1685	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 240.89
98741074	Turquet	France, Allemagne, Italie & Espagne	1605	EUR 1,100.00 - 1,400.00	EUR 224.54
99139402	Gregoire Leti	La Vie D`Elisabeth Reine D`Angleterre (2 Bande)	1695	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 223.45
99076389	Henri de Lorraine & Duc de Guise	Les Memoires d'Henri de Lorraine, Duc de Guise	1681	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 197.29
99229545	Marc Antoine Zimara	Les Problemes d'Aristote et autres philosophes et medecins selon la composition du corps humain,	1587	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 185.30
99076316	Marcus Tullius Ciceron	M. Tullii Ciceronis	1601	EUR 425.00 - 500.00	EUR 175.49
99115029	Charles Patin	Quatre relations historiques	1673	EUR 275.00 - 375.00	EUR 164.59
96673679	Antoine Varillas	Les Anecdotes de Florence ou L'Histoire Secrete de la Maison de Medecis	1689	EUR 275.00 - 350.00	EUR 154.78
99114418	Sainte-Marie Magdeleine (Dom Pierre de)	Traite d'Horlogiographie	1691	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 130.80
99076379	Michel Ettmuller	Nouvelle chirurgie, medicale et raisonnee	1690	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 124.26
98741068	Condential	Les Larmes de Susanne	1608	EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 119.90
98777759	Du Torar	Leccons de Geometrie Pratique	1691	EUR 275.00 - 350.00	EUR 119.90
99142981	Paul Scarron	[ 4 livre en 1 vol ] : Jodelet ou le Vallet comedie / Jodelet duelliste comedie / l'heritier	1663	EUR 275.00 - 350.00	EUR 119.90
99146403	.	Plaidoyers De Me Iean Bone Conseiller Dv Roy Et Svbstitvt De Mr Procureur General,Au Parlament De	1657	EUR 650.00 - 800.00	EUR 119.90
99134846	Anonyme -- traduction francaise et commentaire d'un ecclesiastique du XVII? siecle	Cantique des Cantiques -- Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1698 -- Edition baroque illustree, texte	1698	EUR 150.00 - 350.00	EUR 109.00
99080026	Adrien Baillet	La Vie de Mr. Descartes	1692	EUR 170.00 - 200.00	EUR 99.19
99255379	Francois Senault	De l'usage des passions	1641	EUR 190.00 - 230.00	EUR 95.92
99167963	Benoist van Haeften	Le Chemin Royal de la Croix.	1667	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 89.38
99145759	Daniel de Cigongne	L'Office de la Semaine Sainte	1698/1688	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 79.57
99106080	Gabriel Chappuis, Giovanni Battista Giraldi	Dialogues philosophiques et tres utiles italiens-francois, touchant la vie Civile	1584	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 77.39
99218350	Philibert Guybert	Le medecin charitable	1648	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 70.85

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
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.