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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) | 15,273.08 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | February 09, 2026 - February 09, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 17,200.00 |
| Sale Number | #20926 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 28,050.00 |
| Total Lots | 81 | ||
| Sold Lots | 57.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 27,120.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 70.37% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 48,490.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 24 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 31.50% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101024461 | Giovanni Battista Ferrari illustrated by Pietro Berrettini da Cortona and Guido Reni | Flora overo cultura di fiori (Flora or culture of flowers) |
1638 | EUR 1,000.00 - 2,900.00 | EUR 1,199.00 |
| 100901801 | Lodovico Guicciardini | La Description Des Touts Les Pays-Bas [54 gravures] |
1609 | EUR 450.00 - 600.00 | EUR 851.29 |
| 101012863 | Minutianus | Post-incunabolo Statuta Antiqua Mediolani |
1502 | EUR 800.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 708.50 |
| 101056959 | Guilhelmus Fabricius Hildanus (Wilhelm Fabry von Hilden, 1560--1634) | Guilhelmi Fabricii Hildani -- Opera quae extant omnia Frankfurt am Main, Johann Beyer, 1646 (MDCXLVI) |
1646 | EUR 450.00 - 550.00 | EUR 655.09 |
| 100963705 | Guillaume Paradin | Cronique de Savoye |
1552 | EUR 650.00 - 750.00 | EUR 652.91 |
| 101064404 | L. Maimburg | Historie van de Kettery der Beeldstormers, en van d'overbrenging des Keizerrijks op de Franschen |
1685 | EUR 450.00 - 600.00 | EUR 545.00 |
| 100974078 | Hermann Fley | Annales Circuli Westphalici |
1640 | EUR 450.00 - 500.00 | EUR 512.30 |
| 101037192 | Saint John Chrysostom / Hieronymus Froben, Nicolaus Episcopius | [BINDING] Quintus et ultimus tomus operum |
1547 | EUR 425.00 - 750.00 | EUR 490.50 |
| 100670777 | Bodenehr | Provinciarum Europae geographica descriptio |
1679 | EUR 750.00 - 900.00 | EUR 457.80 |
| 101030691 | BLANKAART, Stephen. | Anatomia Reformata Sive Concinna Corporis Humani, Dissectio Ad Neotericorum Mentem Adornata. |
1688 | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 392.40 |
| 101026078 | Francois-Mathieu Chastelet de Beauchasteau | La Lyre du jeune Apollon |
1657 | EUR 500.00 - 3,500.00 | EUR 386.95 |
| 100958111 | Gioseffo Petrucci | Prodomo apologetico alli studi Chircheriani |
1677 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 381.50 |
| 101018146 | Adolphus Venator | Nootvvendigh historisch verhael, van allen swaricheyden, verschillen, ende proceduren, soo wel in |
1611 | EUR 400.00 - 450.00 | EUR 381.50 |
| 100965067 | Giustiniano | Digestorum seu Pandectarum iuris Caesarei |
1540 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 337.90 |
| 100898627 | P.C. Hooft | Nederlandsche Historien. |
1677 | EUR 170.00 - 300.00 | EUR 332.45 |
| 100958474 | San Tommaso d'Aquino | Opuscula omnia; Prima secundae partis Summae Theologiae |
1588 | EUR 170.00 - 250.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 101081054 | Gregor XIII; Paulus Lancellotto Perusinus | Corpus Juris Canonici |
1670 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 100798818 | Gerard Brandt / Sebastiaan Stoopendaal / Joseph Mulder | [VOC / PRINT-BOOK] Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter |
1701/1699 | EUR 325.00 - 500.00 | EUR 310.65 |
| 101021321 | [Synode van Dordrecht] | Acta ofte Handelingen des Nationalen Synodi |
1621 | Not Available | EUR 309.56 |
| 100992462 | Unknown | Sheet from Medieval (?) Coral book Liturgic music Canto Gregoriano Lombardy Italy |
1500 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 289.94 |
| 101025227 | Renda Ragusa Gerolamo. | Siciliae Bibliotheca Vetus |
1700 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 272.50 |
| 101065568 | Isocrate, Hieronymus Wolf (vert) | Isokratous logoi kai epistolai, Isocratis Orationes et Epistolae |
1621 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 272.50 |
| 100937777 | Johann Boeckler, Herodian | Herodiani Historiarum Libri VIII |
1644 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 250.70 |
| 101012220 | Pompeio Trogo | Justini Historiarum ex Pompeio Trogo libri XLIIII : Ex museo Joh: Isaci Pontani. Juxta exemplar |
1646/1546 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 245.25 |
| 100949572 | R. Des Cartes/Cartesio | Meditationes de prima Philosophia |
1670 | EUR 220.00 - 400.00 | EUR 239.80 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000 -
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.