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Catawiki B. V.: Autographs and Manuscripts

Auction Reports

Auction Name Autographs and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 11,295.67
Auction Date December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 16,435.00
Sale Number #121025a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 21,215.00
Total Lots 104
Sold Lots 93.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 19,680.00
% of Lots Sold 89.42% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 25,060.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 45.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99215386 Universita di Bologna

Laurea in diritto canonico e civile rilasciata dall'Universita di Bologna nel gennaio 1645 Juris

1645 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 1,004.98
99446287 Salmi biblici

Libro dei salmo Ge'ez

1800 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 546.09
99498716 Ludwig

Napoleonische Epoche, grossherzogliches Siegel, mit ,,Ludwig"-Signatur

1815 EUR 400.00 - 450.00 EUR 545.00
99391611 Signed ; Che Guevara

Interview with engineer Fernadez Cruz --- Documente Approved by Che

1961 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 524.29
99392636 Signed ; Che Guevara

Provisional Contract approved by Che Guevara in May 8

1961 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 502.49
99301323 Signed ; Che Guevara

Sierra Maestra -Battlefield Letter -Altos De Corrado February 24

1958 EUR 550.00 - 700.00 EUR 480.69
99500215

Fotografia firmada y dedicada por Benedicto XV

1916 EUR 475.00 - 525.00 EUR 457.80
99567177 Ibn Sina, Canon Medicinae - lqnwn fy lTb

Materia Medica, Medical Manuscripts, Drugs, Juices, Doctrine, Pathology, Anatomy, al-Andalus

1420/1450 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 327.00
99516523 [Napoleon Bonaparte] Charles Chabrillac, peintre

Joli dessin representant Napoleon

1829 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 EUR 294.30
99537656 Charte en latin

NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS

1377 EUR 275.00 - 325.00 EUR 272.50
99365028 Signed ; Che Guevara

Draft approach Aidee Santamaria (director of the House of the Americas)

1964 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 261.60
99532359 Louis Bonaparte - Roi de Hollande

Lettre signee de Haerlem

1810 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 239.80
99565121 French scriptorium of the Middle Ages

Breviary illuminated leaf on vellum France 14th Cent. Beautiful filigree initials in red and blue

1400/1350 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 222.36
99576568

Prime Minister of United Kingdom (1979-1990) - Signed Card + Letter

1988 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 212.55
98590638 Albert Vulliez

Autobiographie manuscrite et inedite [sans reserve]

1910 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 208.19
99527382 India

Antico Manoscritto Ottomano illuminato Juz 7 in caratteri Taqi

1890 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 208.19
99567567 Chidusche Torat Mosche khydvshy tvrt mshh

Mount Sinai & Victim laws, Torah & Antique Bible Manuscript with many crowns, Deer Parchment

1350/1380 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 189.66
99392123 Signed ; Che Guevara

He writes from La Cabana to his Secretary Francisco Gracia Valls (pancho) June3

1959 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 174.40
99576924

Signed Photo (10x15 cm)

2008 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 174.40
99382416 Divers

1 feuillet double recto verso d'un Coran manuscrit persan, moghol, Safavide.

1620/1680 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 153.69
99514595 Bible

Antique Manuscript Bible ktby yd 'tyqym Fragment From Yemen Handwritten bktb yd on Deer Parchment

1610 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 143.88
99567794 Torah manuscript, Chronicles -Ancient Hebrew Family Tree

Cain and Abel-Descendants, History of creation, The Fall of Man, Red Deer Skin, Egypt

1350/1320 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 141.70
99574833 Xx

Lot of 50 old blank small sheets - 18th century

1700 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 137.34
99565132 Italian scriptorium of the Middle Ages

Breviary illuminated leaf on vellum Italy 2 big initials in red and blue colours

1480/1450 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 136.25
99502787 Carlos Sommervogel (1834-1910) [pretre jesuite francais]

13 lettres autographes Inedites

1859 EUR 225.00 - 275.00 EUR 130.80
  • 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