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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)	23,721.67
Auction Date	January 05, 2026 - January 05, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	27,825.00
Sale Number	#10526	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	42,575.00
Total Lots	68
Sold Lots	60.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	34,575.00
% of Lots Sold	88.24%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	62,625.00
Unsold Lots	8	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	37.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
100158093	William Harvey	Anatomical Exercitations, Concerning the Generation of Living Creatures: To which are added	1653	EUR 4,900.00 - 5,400.00	EUR 4,796.00
100193852	DANTE ALIGHIERI	Dante con l'espositioni di Christoforo Landino et d'Alessandro Vellutello	1596	EUR 4,200.00 - 8,500.00	EUR 3,760.50
100222239	Torquato Tasso / Agostino Carracci	Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered)	1617	EUR 1,400.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 2,071.00
100193873	FRANCOIS RABELAIS	Les OEuvres de Francois Rabelais	1663	EUR 1,900.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 926.50
100187977	[POST-INCUNABLE] M. Fabius Quintilianus	M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionum Oratoria + Oratoris Eloquentissimi Declamationes Undeuiginti	1538	EUR 700.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 599.50
100231914	Cantoral [Musica, Canto Gregoriano][1693]	Cantus Passionum secundum quatuor Evangelistas et Lamentationum Jeremiae Prophetae [Antifonario]	1693	EUR 650.00 - 800.00	EUR 599.50
100203999	Heinrich Pantaleon	Chronographia Ecclesiae Christi	1575/1568	EUR 475.00 - 550.00	EUR 545.00
98706070	Joseph Mascardi	Conclusiones omnium probatiorum	1593	EUR 550.00 - 700.00	EUR 545.00
100184819	[VOC]	Vijf verscheyde journalen van Pieter van den Broeck, gehouden op zijne reysen na Cabo-Verde, Angola	1660	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 479.60
100193864	PLACIDO TITI	ASTROLOGY-ASTRONOMY Continuatio Ephemeridum Caelestium Motuum ab initio anni 1666 usque ad finem	1666	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 479.60
100189548	Giovanni Vimercato	Dialogo de gli horologi solari... Sun watch orologi solari	1672	EUR 425.00 - 500.00	EUR 468.70
100230774	[Varron, Verrius Flaccus, Paul Manuce] / Denys Godefroy	Auctores Latinae Linguae in unum redacti corpus	1602	EUR 375.00 - 450.00	EUR 465.43
100230771	Juste Lipse	Roma illustrata, sive Antiquitatum Romanarum breviarium.	1645	EUR 200.00 - 375.00	EUR 458.89
100209249	[Medecine] Nicolas Abraham de la Framboisiere	Les Oevvres de Nicolas Abraham de la Framboisiere	1613	EUR 220.00 - 400.00	EUR 403.30
100229577	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Opera M. T. Ciceronis	1511/1531	EUR 550.00 - 900.00	EUR 327.00
100231748	Constantijn Huygens	Koren-bloemen Nederlandsche Gedichten	1672	EUR 375.00 - 450.00	EUR 294.30
100231129	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Orationum M. Tulij Ciceronis volumen I. A Ioan. Michaele Bruto emendatum. Accesserunt breues	1584	EUR 275.00 - 350.00	EUR 283.40
100216920	[XVIIIe CONTE] - Antoine Hamilton	Le Belier, conte. [Suivi de:] Histoire de Fleur d'Epine, conte.	1730	EUR 275.00 - 600.00	EUR 267.05
100218021	Friedrich Spanheim le Jeune	Friderici Spanhemii F. Introductio ad historiam et antiquitates sacras [Reliure signee Muller]	1675	EUR 325.00 - 600.00	EUR 261.60
100230918	Lucius Caecilius Firmianus [dit Lactance] ; Jean de Tournes	L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani : Diuinarum institutionum libri VII. De ira Dei liber I. De Opificio	1579	EUR 375.00 - 450.00	EUR 261.60
100183711	Andrea Diuo	Homeri Poetae Clarissi Mi Odyssea	1600	EUR 325.00 - 400.00	EUR 241.98
100143797	Publius Terentius Afer; Aelius Donatus	Publii Terentii Comoediae Sex	1651	Not Available	EUR 226.72
100190594	Johannes Leusden (1624-1699)	Philologus Hebraeus, in quo pleraque quaestiones Generales philologico-hebraicae...	1657	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 219.09
100168504	Joannes Scapula	Lexicon Graeco-Latinum [El Scapula, el diccionario de Griego de los eruditos del XVII]	1628	EUR 220.00 - 550.00	EUR 218.00
100202726	Josephus Flavius	Iosssephi De Antiqvitatibvs Ivdaeorvm Libri X. Posteriores	1539	EUR 750.00 - 900.00	EUR 209.28

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
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.