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Catawiki B. V.

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Auction Name: Old and Rare Books (pre-1700)
Auction Date: 12/06/2025 - 12/06/2025
Sale Number: #120625c
Total Lots: 50
Sold Lots: 44.0
Lots Sold: 88.00%
Unsold Lots: 6

Total Sales (EUR): 4,357.82
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 8,455.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 10,560.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 10,075.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 13,460.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 32.38%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
99518029		Matthaus Merian (b1593) Hand coloured folio, Marine Life: Nautilus, Octopus, Conch, Shells	1657	EUR 150.00 - 230.00	EUR 272.50
99522616	Ulisse Aldrovandi	De Piscibus Libri V	1638	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 239.80
99526437	Hartmann Schedel/ Wohlgemut/ Pleydenwurff/Durer	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 223.45
99522840	Ulisse Aldrovandi	De Piscibus Libri V	1638	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 218.00
99517064		Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - hand coloured folio: Bats, Nightjars	1657	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 209.28
99520550	Conrad Gesner	Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum	1555	EUR 170.00 - 200.00	EUR 198.38
99534007	Paris, Simon Vostre, 1506-07	1 leaf from a Printed Book of Hours on Vellum with initials gold hightened, partly burnished gold	1506/1507	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 185.30
99477858		Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - hand coloured folio: Amphibians, Toads, Frogs	1657	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 175.49
99522976	Ulisse Aldrovandi	De Piscibus Libri V	1638	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 164.59
99526895	Hartmann Schedel/ Wohlgemut/ Pleydenwurff/Durer	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 163.50
99553347	Sebastian Munster	Cosmographia	1590	EUR 170.00 - 200.00	EUR 152.60
99478124		Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - hand coloured folio: Waterbirds, storks, flamingo, ardea, heron	1657	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 132.98
99523609	Hartmann Schedel/ Wohlgemut/ Pleydenwurff/Durer	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 119.90
99528631	Hartmann Schedel/ Wohlgemut/ Pleydenwurff/Durer	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 119.90
99523246	Ulisse Aldrovandi	De Piscibus Libri V	1638	EUR 170.00 - 200.00	EUR 113.36
99553199	Hartmann Schedel/ Wohlgemut/ Pleydenwurff/Durer	The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)	1493	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 100.28
99534023	Paris, Thielman Kerver, 1505	Printed Book of Hours on paper with full woodcut engraved borders (10 pictures)	1505	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 98.10
99583707	Sebastian Munster	Cosmographia	1590	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 92.65
99534351	Paris, Antoine Verard, 1510	Printed Book of Hours on Vellum with 14 painted coloured initials gold hightened and 7 metalcuts	1510	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 90.47
99519024		Cristoforo Coriolano (b.1540) Sole, Flatfish, folio with hand coloured woodcut	1638	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 88.29

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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.