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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700)

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700)	Total Sales (EUR)	61,224.21
Auction Date	August 31, 2025 - August 31, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	60,370.00
Sale Number	#83125e	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	118,400.00
Total Lots	50
Sold Lots	27.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	128,620.00
% of Lots Sold	54.00%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	209,600.00
Unsold Lots	23	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	29.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
97248369	Antonius Florentinus	Summa theologica	1486/1487	EUR 14,000.00 - 25,000.00	EUR 13,080.00
97215670	Galileo Galilei	Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa e filosofo e	1632	EUR 5,500.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 8,720.00
97283790	Jean Cousin	Livre de Perspective [First edition- 58 woodcuts]	1560	EUR 4,300.00 - 11,000.00	EUR 5,234.18
97280178	Johannes STOFFLER- Gorgeous Astronomical book	Calendarium Romanum	1518	EUR 5,500.00 - 13,000.00	EUR 4,905.00
97279347	TITUS LIVIUS- Magnificent illuminated Incunable	La Quarta Deca	1481	EUR 4,900.00 - 11,000.00	EUR 4,796.00
97260615	Sebastian Munster	Cosmographia Universalis	1559	EUR 3,200.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 3,597.00
97284002	Alessandro Piccolomini	La Sfera Del Mondo (The Sphere of the World)	1566	EUR 1,000.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 2,289.00
96943396	Ulisse Aldrovandi	De Animalibus Insectis	1602	EUR 1,600.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 1,744.00
97047389	R. P. Jean Baptiste Du Tertre	Histoire generale des Antilles habitees par les Francois	1671/1667	EUR 1,400.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 1,744.00
97043272	Jacob Theodor Tabernaemontanus (Jacobi Theodori Tabernaemontani)	Neu Vollkommen Krauter Buch	1687	EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 1,636.09
97082255	Anonyme	(Incunable ou debut XVIeme) Grant Kalendrier et Compost des Bergiers.	1490/1510	EUR 2,200.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 1,635.00
97112982		Biblia, Das ist Die gantze Heilige Schrifft	1720	EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,635.00
97278566	Bovelles (Charles de).	Geometrie practique composee par le Noble Philosophe Maistre Charles de Bouelles et par luy reveue	1555	EUR 1,100.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,309.09
97042466	Bardassar Castiglione	Il libro del Cortegiano	1531	EUR 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,308.00
97055260	Pieter Christiaensz Bor	Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden	1684/1679	EUR 650.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 981.00
97279664	Johannes de Ulloa	Physica speculativa + Philosophiae naturalis-Gorgeous binding	1712/1713	EUR 550.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 893.80
97065945	Ludolphus De Saxonia	Vita Christi Domini Salvatoris Nostri (mit zahlreichen Textholzschnitten)	1581	EUR 1,600.00 - 1,900.00	EUR 828.40
97154692		Anno 1671 Augsburg Simon Utzschneider, Bauernkalender, Astronomie, Weissagungen	1671	EUR 1,100.00 - 1,400.00	EUR 739.02
97139550	Jehan Cousin	Jean cousin - Livre de perspective et Pourtraicture Maistre Jean Cousin	1647/1560	EUR 900.00 - 1,400.00	EUR 697.60
97277849	Du Bellay (Guillaume)	Epitome de l'antiquite des Gaules et de France. Exemplaire de Claude Rabot	1556	EUR 1,100.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 654.00
97017546	R. P. F. Jacques Du Breuil	Le Theatre des Antiquitez de Paris	1612	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 525.38
97109608	Jean Jacques de Walthausen	Art militaire a cheval. Instruction des principes et fondements de la cavallerie et de ses quatre	1621	EUR 450.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 490.50
97066390	Aloysii Lipomani	De Probatis Sanctorvm Historiis Partim Ex Tomis Aloysii Lipomani Doctissimi Episcopi, ...	1578	EUR 1,300.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 468.70
97064355	D.Dionysii Carthvsiani	D.Dionysii Carthvsiani Liber Vtilissimvs De Qvatvor Hominis Novissimis Nempe	1591	EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 414.20
97104896	Ovid / Lodovico Dolce (translation)	Le trasformationi di M. Lodovico Dolce, tratte da Ovidio: con gli argomenti et allegorie al	1570	EUR 220.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 392.40

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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.
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.