Catawiki B. V.: Literature and Illustrated Books, 92125a, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 21, 2025 - September 21, 2025
Page Size: 49 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
96853093 Umberto Eco

Beatus de Liebana

1982 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 163.50
97083944 Signed, John Ashbery

Some Trees (Poems)

1956 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 EUR 338.99
97267790 George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1949 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 EUR 403.30
97394350 Dante Alighieri/Evelyn Paul

La Vita Nuova

1915 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 286.67
97451349 Lilia Scott MacDonald

Babies' Classics (Signed Letter from Arthur Hughes)

1904 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
97498444 J.D. Salinger

The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger: Volumes 1 and 2

1974 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 EUR 103.55
97498598 Vasily Kamensky; Nikolai Evreinov

[Russian Avant-Garde / Theater] Kniga o Evreinov (1917) + Vvedenie v monodramu (1909). Both 1st Ed.

1909/1917 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 130.80
97503902 Mr. PRATT

Gleanings

1795 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
97505686 Karen Blixen [Isak Dinesen]

Out of Africa

1937 EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 226.72
97514072 Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Vida Y Hechos Del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha Compuesta Por Miguel De Cervantes

1755 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
97530440 P. G. Wodehouse

Carry On, Jeeves Eerste druk

1925 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
97531555 Freiherr von Eichendorff

Aus dem literarischen Nachlasse

1866 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
97556923 Torquato Tasso

Aminta

1939 EUR 225.00 - 275.00 EUR 87.20
97557174 Miguel de Cervantes

Obras de Cervantes. Don Quijote de la Mancha

1829 EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 Not Sold
97558410 Dante

Comedia di Dante con figure dipinte

2014 EUR 500.00 - 650.00 EUR 436.00
97569941 Omero / Elvio Marchionni

Iliade. Saggio introduttivo e commento di Louis Godart. Illustrazioni di Elvio Marchionni

2002 EUR 700.00 - 850.00 EUR 122.08
97587353 Serafi Pitarra, Valenti Castanys

El castell dels tres dragons, El Castillo de los tres dragones

1948 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
97592122 Giovanni Paolo Marana

Letters writ by a Turkish spy

1770 EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 158.05
97595195 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Traduccion: T. Smollett; Grabados disenados por Francis Hayman

The History and Adventures of Don Quixote [in Folio Minor]

1755 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,100.00 EUR 981.00
97611282 Francesco Petrarca/Apollonio di Giovanni

I Trionfi (Petrarch's Triumphs)

2012 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
97624064 Amelia Alderson Opie, J. M.

Cecilia o sea el padre y la hija novela

1822 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
97629470 Franco Maria Ricci

Genio D'Italia [37/150 di 975]

2008 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
97629497 Anton Francesco Doni

Genio d'Italia Dante Petrarca Boccaccio "prototipo"

2008 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
97661835 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Oeuvres Complettes de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1798 EUR 700.00 - 850.00 EUR 545.00
97663729 Signed; Edgar Allan Poe / Alois Bilek (ill)

Shadow - Silence (limited edition, no 67/150, signed by illustrator)

1926 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 171.13
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.