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Catawiki B. V.

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Auction Name: Science and Nature Books Auction
Auction Date: 12/07/2025 - 12/07/2025
Sale Number: #120725b
Total Lots: 38
Sold Lots: 22.0
Lots Sold: 57.89%
Unsold Lots: 16

Total Sales (EUR): 13,404.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 17,550.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 21,050.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 35,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 42,650.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 31.43%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
99358083	Frederick Lewis Norden	Travels in Egypt and Nubia	1757	EUR 1,700.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,071.00
99523086	Adalbert Seitz	750 magnificent full colour chromolithographs from: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde/The	1905/1954	EUR 1,300.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 1,215.35
98521292	Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau	Traite des Arbres et Arbustes qui se cultivent en France en pleine terre	1755	EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,035.50
93728177	Bruin, C., De [De Bruyn or Bruijn]	Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten	1714	EUR 650.00 - 800.00	EUR 988.63
99161557	Carl von Linne, Paulus Dietrich Giseke	Praelectiones in ordines naturales plantarum	1792	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	EUR 872.00
99174523	Unknown	19th Century Herbarium Album - Botany Ireland Dried Flowers Plants Manuscript	1890/1887	EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 872.00
99173584	Richard F. Burton	Personal Narrative of A Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah. In Two Volumes.	1857	EUR 1,100.00 - 1,300.00	EUR 763.00
99385291	Thomas Martyin	Aranei or A Natural History of Spiders	1793	EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 713.95
99027813	Farinone	Tarocco piemontese	1865	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 654.00
99497405	Lovell Reeve	Elements of Conchology; an introduction to the natural history of shells and of the animals which	1860	EUR 750.00 - 900.00	EUR 545.00
98906757	Diderot et d'Alembert	Recueil de planches de l'Encyclopedie	1785	EUR 550.00 - 700.00	EUR 523.20
99527432	J. de Saunier; Gaspard de Saunier	La Parfaite Connoissance des Chevaux	1734	EUR 750.00 - 900.00	EUR 512.30
98561220		Johann Jacob Scheuchzer - Geestelyke Natuurkunde	1729	EUR 425.00 - 500.00	EUR 419.65
99330571	GOCKEL (Eberhard).	[Plague and Pathology]: Gallicinium medico-practicum. Sive consiliorum, observationum medicinalium	1700	EUR 550.00 - 700.00	EUR 414.20
99497741	Bairei, K.	Bairei hyakucho gafu. Bairei's Album of one hundred birds.	1882/1881	EUR 750.00 - 900.00	EUR 377.14
98906898	Diderot et d'Alembert	Recueil de planches de l'Encyclopedie, par ordre de matieres	1786	EUR 550.00 - 700.00	EUR 371.69
99557976	Rev. Thomas Maurice	Ruins of Babylon	1816	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 312.83
99607753	.	Die gantz neue eroffnete Pforte zu dem Chymischen Kleinod oder einige vornehmste chymische Arcana	1728	EUR 650.00 - 800.00	EUR 249.61
99569554	Dr E Rufz	Snakes: Enquete sur le serpent de la Martinique	1859	EUR 400.00 - 450.00	EUR 239.80
99476665	Harald Othmar Lenz	Snakes: Schlangen und Schlangenfeinde	1870	EUR 325.00 - 400.00	EUR 164.59

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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.