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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) | 40,533.83 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | February 13, 2026 - February 13, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 57,220.00 |
| Sale Number | #21326 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 99,400.00 |
| Total Lots | 39 | ||
| Sold Lots | 23.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 82,770.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 58.97% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 149,500.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 16 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 27.11% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100983188 | Coronelli | Epitome cosmografica |
1693 | EUR 9,900.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 5,666.91 |
| 101023406 | Valverde | La anatomia del corpo umano |
1586 | EUR 3,900.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 3,815.00 |
| 101043378 | Isacchi | Inventioni |
1579 | EUR 3,900.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 3,815.00 |
| 101087225 | Johannes Rau | Cosmographia |
1597 | EUR 2,900.00 - 3,200.00 | EUR 3,597.00 |
| 100792251 | Athanasius Kircher | d'Onder-Aardse Weereld in Haar Goddelijk Maaksel en wonderbare uitwerkselen aller Dingen |
1682 | EUR 1,700.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,488.00 |
| 100956683 | Giovanni Battista Nazari | Della Tramutatione Metallica Sogni Tre |
1599 | EUR 3,100.00 - 6,500.00 | EUR 2,398.00 |
| 100982959 | Paradin | [PLANTIN] Symbola Heroica |
1570 | EUR 850.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 2,207.25 |
| 100756844 | Albertus Magnus (Saint Albert the Great) | Post-Incunabula Mariale |
1507 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,798.50 |
| 101076068 | Ismael Boulliau | Astronomia Philolaica |
1645 | EUR 9,400.00 - 14,000.00 | EUR 1,787.60 |
| 101062109 | Oronce Fine after Johannes de Sacrobosco and Ptolemy | De Mundi Sphaera (The Sphere of the World) |
1553 | EUR 1,500.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 1,633.91 |
| 101077456 | Alessandro Piccolomini | Theoriche o vero Speculationi dei Pianeti (Theories or Speculations of the Planets) |
1558 | EUR 1,700.00 - 4,500.00 | EUR 1,526.00 |
| 101004039 | Guicciardini | [ERSTAUSGABE, Niederlande] Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi |
1567 | EUR 2,000.00 - 7,500.00 | EUR 1,389.75 |
| 101075891 | Guillaume Postel | De Orbis Terrae Concordia |
1544 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 995.17 |
| 101000487 | Giacopo Filippo Foresti | Sopplimento Delle Croniche Vniersali Del Mondo |
1581 | EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 981.00 |
| 101052243 | Elias Herckmans / Willem Basse | Der zee-vaert lof Handelende vande gedenckwaerdighste zeevaerden met de daeraenklevende op en |
1634 | EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 | EUR 981.00 |
| 100717477 | Jacques Androuet du Cerceau / Benoist Prevost | Livre d'architecture de Jacques Androuet du Cerceau |
1559 | EUR 4,100.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 953.75 |
| 100768436 | M. Timotheum Kirchnerum | Martin Luther, Index oder Register uber die acht deudsche Tomos, ersten und andern Drucks, aller |
1564 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 818.59 |
| 101027861 | Gastrosophie - Io. Guilielmo Stuckio [Johann Wilhelm Stucki] | Antiquitatum convivialium libri III. In quibus Hebraeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum, aliarumque nationum |
1597 | EUR 350.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 763.00 |
| 100993112 | Ioannis Indagine [Johannes Indagine, also known as Johannes von Hagen] (1467--1537) / Johann | Dess hochgelehrten Astronomi Ioannis Indagine Astrologia Naturalis bound together with Chiromantia, |
1692/1630 | EUR 550.00 - 1,600.00 | EUR 436.00 |
| 101097413 | Antonio Brucioli & C. Plinio Secondo | Historia Natvrale Di C. Plinio Sicondo Nvovamente Tradutta Di Latino In Vvlgare Toscano |
1548 | EUR 2,600.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 425.10 |
| 100956692 | Bernard Renau d'Elissagaray | De la Theorie de la Manoeuvre des vaisseaux |
1689 | EUR 550.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 403.30 |
| 101063006 | Justus Lipsius | Militaria,Justus Lipsius,Poliorceticon sive de machinis. Editio altera, correcta & aucta |
1599 | EUR 750.00 - 2,200.00 | EUR 370.60 |
| 100993784 | Cesare Ripa (1555-1622) | Iconologia di Cesare Ripa Perugino Cavalier di SS. Mauritio et Lazaro. Divisa in Tre Libri. |
1645 | EUR 220.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 283.40 |
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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 -
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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.