Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (pre-1800) - bidstart 10/1

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Old and Rare Books (pre-1800) - bidstart 10/1	Total Sales (EUR)	15,082.12
Auction Date	October 13, 2021 - October 13, 2021	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	6,191.00
Sale Number	#101321	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	7,563.00
Total Lots	113
Sold Lots	105	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	7,341.00
% of Lots Sold	92.92%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	8,983.00
Unsold Lots	8	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	167.90%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51297377	Jean-Baptiste Christyn	Les Délices des Pays-Bas, ou description géographique et historique des XVII provinces Belgiques	1769	EUR 660.00 - 750.00	EUR 664.90
51704221	Collectif	Franc-maçonnerie. État du G.. O.. de France	1777	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 635.47
51780603	Montesquieu	Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence	1734	Not Available	EUR 458.89
51665115	Voltaire	Oeuvres	1775	EUR 440.00 - 490.00	EUR 457.80
51704337	Bruzen de La Martinière	Le grand dictionnaire géographie, historique et critique	1768	EUR 310.00 - 350.00	EUR 430.55
51818309	Plutarque / Dacier	?Les Vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, traduites en françois, avec des remarques historiques..	1734	Not Available	EUR 394.58
51669069	Laurentii Heisteri	Institutiones Chirurgicae	1750	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 382.59
51710063	Abbé Larudan	Les Francs-Maçons Ecrasés	1766	EUR 253.00 - 278.00	EUR 373.87
51770069	Louis XIV	Contre le luxe portant règlement pour les étoffes, galons, ameublemens, vaisselles, & autres	1700	Not Available	EUR 370.60
51666083	J. Le Roux	Recueil De La Noblesse de Bourgogne, Limbourg, Luxembourg, Gueldres, Flandres, Artois, Haynau...	1715	Not Available	EUR 354.25
51657335	Godonnesche; Fleurimont	Médailles du règne de Louis XV	1749	Not Available	EUR 283.40
51812125	Polybe, Folard, Thuillier	Histoire de Polybe, traduit du grec par Dom Thuillier, (...) commentaire Folard	1729	Not Available	EUR 283.40
51816367	LUC, J.A, de	Recherches sur les modifications de l'atmosphere	1772	EUR 275.00 - 375.00	EUR 283.40
51786851	J.J Rousseau	Du Contrat social ou principes du droit politique	1791	Not Available	EUR 273.59
51832417	Vincent Houdry	La Bibliothèque des prédicateurs	1716	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 272.50
51791943	Noël Antoine Pluche	Le Spectacle de la Nature	1739	Not Available	EUR 250.70
51717913	Racine	Oeuvres de Racine complete in 3 Quarto Volumes	1760	Not Available	EUR 239.80
51747919	Erasme / Holbein	Éloge de la Folie	1780	Not Available	EUR 239.80
51851679	Mr l'Abbé de Vallemont	Curiositez de la Nature et de l'Art sur la Végétation	1705	Not Available	EUR 214.73
51712981	Philippe Carteret	Relation des Voyages	1774	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 212.55
51833023	Jean-Paul Marat	Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale	1784	EUR 220.00 - 250.00	EUR 209.28
51845145	Jean Antoine, dit l'Abbé Nollet	?Lettres sur l'électricité	1767/1753	Not Available	EUR 209.28
51770807	Gabriel Daniel	Voyage du Monde de Descartes. Nouvelle édition	1702	Not Available	EUR 207.10
51810107	Joseph d' Orle?ans	Histoire des revolutions d'Espagne : depuis la destruction de l'empire des Goths, jusqu'a? l'entie?r	1763	Not Available	EUR 207.10
51848183	[Abbé Claude Richer]	La Gnomonique universelle ou la science de tracer les cadrans solaires	1701	EUR 198.00 - 220.00	EUR 207.10

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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.