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Catawiki B. V.: Old & Rare Books Auction Pre-1700
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Old & Rare Books Auction Pre-1700 | Total Sales (USD) | 15,209.86 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 04, 2026 - May 04, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 19,675.00 |
| Sale Number | #50426 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 26,240.00 |
| Total Lots | 96 | ||
| Sold Lots | 77.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 26,805.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 80.21% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 36,785.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 19 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 41.35% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 103170881 | Thucydides / Bernardo | ΘΟΥΚΥΔΙΔΗΣ Thoukydides, meta scholion palaion kai pany ophelimon choris on, ouk euxynetos ho |
1506 | USD 325.00 - 400.00 | USD 1,090.00 |
| 103187756 | Daniel Hartmann | Burgerliche Wohnungs Baw-Kunst |
1688 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,900.00 | USD 872.00 |
| 103247373 | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso |
1600 | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | USD 659.45 |
| 102783757 | Justi Lipsi | [Reliure armoriee] Poliorceticon sive de machinis, tormentis, telis libri quinque/De Cruce libri |
1599 | USD 550.00 - 650.00 | USD 654.00 |
| 103193806 | Lodovico Ariosto / Girolamo Ruscelli | Orlando furioso di m. Lodouico Ariosto : tutto ricorretto, et di nuoue figure adornato. Alquale di |
1556 | USD 850.00 - 950.00 | USD 654.00 |
| 103328993 | Jan van den Steene (uitg,) | Ordonnancien, Statuten, Edicten en Placcaten gepubliceerd in de landen van herwaarts-over, |
1562 | USD 650.00 - 800.00 | USD 599.50 |
| 102935343 | Marci Hieronymi | Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis. Albae Episcopi Opera |
1567 | USD 425.00 - 500.00 | USD 538.46 |
| 103197169 | N.N. / Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti | [BINDING / PLANTIJN TYPOGRAPHY] Missale Romanum Ex decreto Sarosancti Concilii Tridentini |
1645 | USD 550.00 - 650.00 | USD 528.65 |
| 102230554 | Ioanne Palatio | Aquila inter lilia, sub qua Francorum Caesarum a carolo |
1671 | USD 400.00 - 700.00 | USD 468.70 |
| 103242236 | Lodovico Guicciardini | Description de touts les Pais-Bas (...) |
1625 | USD 650.00 - 800.00 | USD 395.67 |
| 102707690 | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius / Amerbach, Bruno | Quintus Tomus Operum Divi Hieronymi, commen Tarios In Prophetas [5. Band der Werke - apart] |
1516 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 381.50 |
| 103298363 | Liefhebber der Waerheyt | Historie Van het Leven en Sterven van Heer Johan van Olden-Barnevelt |
1648 | Not Available | USD 373.87 |
| 103259859 | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius / Amerbach, Bruno | Sextus tomus+septimo tomo Operum Divi Hieronymi, [6. Bd + 7. Bd. der Werke - apart in 1 Buch] |
1516 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 352.07 |
| 103236145 | Henri Estienne | Apophthegmata Graeca Regum & Ducum, Philosophorum item, Aliorumque Quorundam: ex Plutarcho & Diogene |
1568 | USD 275.00 - 350.00 | USD 348.80 |
| 103331344 | Lodovico Guicciardini | Omnium Belgii sive Inferioris Germaniae regionum descriptio |
1616 | USD 425.00 - 500.00 | USD 295.39 |
| 103183301 | Balthasar de Monconys | [ALCHEMY] Les Voyages de Monsieur de Monconys en Angleterre et aux Pays-Bas. Suite de la seconde |
1695 | USD 275.00 - 375.00 | USD 273.59 |
| 103351683 | Lucio Anneo Floro | Epitome rerum Romanarum (L. Annaei Flori); additus etiam L. Ampelius ex Bibliotheca Cl. Salmasii |
1674 | USD 425.00 - 500.00 | USD 264.87 |
| 103174297 | Jean-Jacques Chifflet (1588-1660) – Auteur suppose | Recueil des Traites de Paix France-Espagne |
1664 | USD 170.00 - 200.00 | USD 261.60 |
| 103324034 | [Andrea Alciato] / [Barthelemy Aneau (translation)] / [Pierre Eskrich (also known as Pierre Vase or | [Les Emblemes d'Alciat. Ordonnez en lieux communs] Incomplete volume |
1549 | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | USD 261.60 |
| 103131280 | Salomon | Proverbia Salomonis. Ecclesiastes, Cantica Canticorum, Liber Sapientiae, Ecclesiasticus |
1543 | USD 425.00 - 500.00 | USD 240.89 |
| 103134132 | Isocrate | Isocratis Orationes |
1570 | USD 425.00 - 500.00 | USD 223.45 |
| 103247167 | Luca di Linda | Le Descrittioni Universali et Particolari del Mondo & delle Repubbliche |
1660 | USD 220.00 - 400.00 | USD 218.00 |
| 103247491 | Philipp Melanchthon | Annotationes in Evangelium |
1542 | USD 325.00 - 400.00 | USD 218.00 |
| 103255923 | Cornelio Cornelii A Lapide | Commentaria In Acta Apostolorum,Epistolas Canonicas Et Apocalypsin |
1662 | USD 210.00 - 600.00 | USD 207.10 |
| 103266294 | R. P. Adamo Burghaber | Theologia polemica in qua doctrinae Catholicorum doctorum asseruntur ac defenduntur et errores |
1678 | USD 225.00 - 275.00 | USD 170.04 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000