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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 (EUR) | 19,036.85 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 18, 2026 - May 18, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 21,050.00 |
| Sale Number | #51826 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 29,105.00 |
| Total Lots | 91 | ||
| Sold Lots | 77.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 28,095.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 84.62% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 40,030.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 14 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 47.56% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 103691855 | Lodovico Guicciardini, Johannes Janssonius, Petrus Montanus, Pieter van den Keere | Description de touts les Pays-bas : avec toutes les cartes geographiques dedits pays, et plusieurs |
1613 | EUR 850.00 - 950.00 | EUR 1,308.00 |
| 103529784 | Gessner, Conrad | Schlangenbuch… Dragons Snakes Reptiles Scorpions… |
1613 | EUR 700.00 - 800.00 | EUR 927.59 |
| 103724036 | Democritus Junior [Robert Burton] | The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and |
1676 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 862.19 |
| 103679541 | Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft | Gedichten |
1636 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 780.44 |
| 103653864 | Jovius, Paulus (Paolo Giovio 1483-1552) | Berumter furtrefflicher Leut Leben/Handlung und Thaten[...] - 2 Teile in 1 |
1589 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 749.92 |
| 103638437 | Martin Luther | Von Ehesachen. Item Vom Ehebruch und weglauffen |
1540 | EUR 275.00 - 450.00 | EUR 634.38 |
| 103683238 | Olfert Dapper | Historische beschrijving van Amsterdam |
1663 | EUR 700.00 - 800.00 | EUR 599.50 |
| 103596319 | John Case | Compendium anatomicum nova methodo institutum |
1696 | EUR 500.00 - 550.00 | EUR 490.50 |
| 103576122 | Guglielmo Rouillio | Il Cortegiano del conte Baldassarre Castiglione |
1553 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 457.80 |
| 103617207 | S. Agostino | Operum D. Aurelii Augustini |
1576 | EUR 275.00 - 450.00 | EUR 457.80 |
| 103612827 | Ovidius Naso | Amatoria |
1554 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | EUR 447.99 |
| 103629926 | Justinus | Trogi Pompei externae Historiae in compendium ab Iustino redactae. Externorum imperatorum vitae |
1522 | EUR 550.00 - 800.00 | EUR 446.90 |
| 103683314 | Robert Johnston | [ERSTAUSGABE] Historia Rerum Britannicarum |
1655 | EUR 450.00 - 750.00 | EUR 425.10 |
| 103659304 | Aristotele | De Physico Auditu |
1540 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 414.20 |
| 103721841 | Flavius Josephus | Flavij Iosephi hoogberoemde Joodtsche Historien |
1647 | EUR 350.00 - 750.00 | EUR 403.30 |
| 103325404 | Macrobe | Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii, theodosii, viri consularis & illustris |
1560 | EUR 750.00 - 900.00 | EUR 360.79 |
| 103712329 | Clesio Bernardo. | Statuta Tridentina. Folio. |
1614 | EUR 250.00 - 280.00 | EUR 354.25 |
| 103718773 | Church of England | The Book of Common Prayer together with The psalter, or Psalms of David |
1687 | EUR 650.00 - 800.00 | EUR 338.99 |
| 103357419 | Luther Martin/ Lucas Cranach der Altere | Doctorem Martin Luther - Tomus VII Operum apart - Werke Band 7 apart |
1554 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 103537812 | [ANTIPHONARIUM] Guillelmi Gabrielis Nivers | ANTIPHONARIUM ROMANUM, JUXTA BREVIARIUM PII QUINTI |
1696 | EUR 750.00 - 900.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 103603321 | Jeronimo de Blancas | Modo de proceder en Cortes de Aragon |
1641 | EUR 350.00 - 400.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 103620787 | Johannes van Call (1656-1706) | Admirandorum Quadruplex Spectaculum |
1697/1694 | EUR 350.00 - 400.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 102117581 | Laurens Van Den Hane | Vlaemsch recht dat is Costumen ende wetten gedecreteert by de graven ende gravinnen van Vlaenderen |
1676 | EUR 220.00 - 250.00 | EUR 300.84 |
| 103639203 | Antiphonarium Abvreviatum. Karthuizer boekje met gezangen, muzieknotaties. |
1630 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 288.85 | |
| 103548929 | J. van Beverwyck | Alle de wercken, zo in de medicyne als chirurgie |
1660 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 285.58 |
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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