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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.