Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700), 22025, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 20, 2025 - February 20, 2025
Page Size: 39 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
84204001 Politi

In Omnes Divi Pauli Apostoli Epistolas... Commentaria

 1566 EUR 220.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
84417317 Newton / Castiglione

Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica

 1744 EUR 850.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,471.50
86195549 Ovidius

Opera Omnia: Metamorphoseon, Amores, Heroides...

 1702 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 272.50
88159693 Geoffroy

Tractatus de Materia Medica [De Fossilibus et de Vegetabilibus Exoticis et Indigenis]

 1742 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
90827197 Cicero / Fausto da Longiano

Orationi Di Latine Fatte Italiane

 1556 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 249.61
91999619 Tasso / Gravelot

Jerusalem Delivree. Poeme

 1774 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
92001937 Boccaccio / Betussi

Della Geneologia de gli Dei

 1564 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 327.00
92023075 Ovidius / Dell'Anguillara

Le Metamorfosi

 1563 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
92044531 Botero

Detti Memorabili di Personaggi Illustri

 1608 EUR 220.00 - 400.00 EUR 261.60
92048117 Iustinus / Porcacchi

Giustino Historico nelle Historie di Trogo Pompeo

 1561 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
92055887 Manzotti

La Notte Saggia

 1775 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 152.60
92085261 Giraldi Cinthio

Hecatommithi, overo Cento Novelle

 1580 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
92289603 Zuffi

Institutiones Criminales

 1667 EUR 220.00 - 400.00 EUR 207.10
92295487 Aristoteles / L'Aretino

Ethica et Politica et Oeconomica

 1530 EUR 550.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
92312421 Vergilius Maro / Lucius

Opera Omnia

 1613 EUR 220.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
92321527 Aristoteles / Casaubon

Operum Aristotelis Stagiritae

 1590 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,202.27
92405603 Musso

Delle Prediche Quadragesimali

 1588 EUR 300.00 - 375.00 EUR 132.98
92481551 Tasso

Il Messaggiero / Discorso della Virtu Heroica et della Charita / Discorso della Virtu Feminile e

 1582 EUR 550.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 545.00
92488637 Homerus

Odyssea, Batrachomiomachia et Hymni Deorum

 1540 EUR 200.00 - 350.00 EUR 174.40
92568825 De Loyola

Esercitii Spirituali di S. Ignatio [24 Tavole]

 1673 EUR 210.00 - 400.00 EUR 257.24
92582711 Dolce / Ovidius

Le Trasformationi [Metamorfosi]

 1561 EUR 550.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 545.00
92691509 Vergilius Maro / Schrevel

Opera Omnia

 1657 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 92.65
92758163 Galea

Predicabili Discorsi sopra il Santissimo Rosario

 1628 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 61.04
93007351 Piccolomini / Aristotele

Piena et Larga Parafrase nel Secondo Libro della Retorica

 1569 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
93104641 Cartari

Praxis et Theoricae Interrogandorum Reorum

 1618 EUR 210.00 - 350.00 EUR 207.10
  • <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>27th March 2025</center></b> <b>Forum, Mar. 27:</b> Dürer (Albrecht) <i>Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion,</i> 4 parts in 1, first edition, Nuremberg, Hieronymus Andreae for Agnes Dürer, 1528. £30,000 to £40,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 27:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 26 fine hand-painted miniatures, 17th century dark brown morocco, [Lyon], [c. 1475 and later c. 1490-1500]. £25,000 to £35,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 27:</b> Brontë (Emily) <i>The North Wind,</i> watercolour, [1842]. £15,000 to £20,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 27:</b> Titanic.- Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother, April 11th 1912. £20,000 to £30,000. <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>27th March 2025</center></b> <b>Forum, Mar. 27:</b> [Austen (Jane)] <i>Emma: A Novel,</i> 3 vol., first edition, for John Murray, 1816. £10,000 to £15,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 27:</b> Picasso (Pablo).- Ovid. <i>Les Metamorphoses,</i> one of 95 copies, signed by the artist, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1931. £10,000 to £15,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 27:</b> America.- Ogilby (John) <i>America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World...,</i> all maps with vibrant hand-colouring in outline, probably by an early hand, 1671. £15,000 to £25,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 27:</b> Iceland.- Geological exploration.- Bright (Dr. Richard )and Edward Bird. Collection of twenty original drawings from travels in Iceland with Henry Holland and George Mackenzie, watercolours, [1810]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    27th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 27: Dürer (Albrecht) Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, 4 parts in 1, first edition, Nuremberg, Hieronymus Andreae for Agnes Dürer, 1528. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 26 fine hand-painted miniatures, 17th century dark brown morocco, [Lyon], [c. 1475 and later c. 1490-1500]. £25,000 to £35,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Brontë (Emily) The North Wind, watercolour, [1842]. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Titanic.- Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother, April 11th 1912. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    27th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 27: [Austen (Jane)] Emma: A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, for John Murray, 1816. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Picasso (Pablo).- Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, one of 95 copies, signed by the artist, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1931. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: America.- Ogilby (John) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World..., all maps with vibrant hand-colouring in outline, probably by an early hand, 1671. £15,000 to £25,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Iceland.- Geological exploration.- Bright (Dr. Richard )and Edward Bird. Collection of twenty original drawings from travels in Iceland with Henry Holland and George Mackenzie, watercolours, [1810]. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>The Library of Barry Humphries<br>26th March 2025</center></b> <b>Forum, Mar. 26:</b> Beckford (William) [Vathek] <i>An Arabian Tale,</i> first (but unauthorised) edition, Lady Caroline Lamb's copy with her signature and notes, 1786. £2,000 to £3,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 26:</b> Baudelaire (Charles) <i>Les Fleurs du Mal,</i> first edition containing the 6 suppressed poems, first issue, contemporary half black morocco, Paris, 1857. £4,000 to £6,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 26:</b> Beardsley (Aubrey).- Pope (Alexander) <i>The Rape of the Lock,</i> one of 25 copies on Japanese vellum, Leonard Smithers, 1896. £4,000 to £6,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 26:</b> Douglas (Lord Alfred) <i>Sonnets,</i> first edition, the dedication copy, with signed presentation inscription from the author to his wife Olive Custance, The Academy, 1909. £2,000 to £3,000. <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>The Library of Barry Humphries<br>26th March 2025</center></b> <b>Forum, Mar. 26:</b> Crowley (Aleister) <i>The Works...,</i> 3 vol. in 1 (as issued)"Essay Competition" issue on India paper, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1905-07. £1,500 to £2,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 26:</b> Rodin (Auguste).- Mirbeau (Octave) <i>Le Jardin des Supplices,</i> one of 30 copies on chine with an additional suite, bound in dark purple goatskin, Paris, 1902. £3,000 to £4,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 26:</b> Pellar (Hans) Eight original book illustrations for 'Der verliebte Flamingo' [together with] a published copy of the first edition of the book, 1923. £6,000 to £8,000. <b>Forum, Mar. 26:</b> Cretté (Georges, binder).- Louÿs (Pierre) <i>Les Aventures du Roi Pausole,</i> 2 vol., one of 99 copies, with 2 original drawings, superbly bound in blue goatskin, gilt, Paris, 1930. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum Auctions
    The Library of Barry Humphries
    26th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 26: Beckford (William) [Vathek] An Arabian Tale, first (but unauthorised) edition, Lady Caroline Lamb's copy with her signature and notes, 1786. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, first edition containing the 6 suppressed poems, first issue, contemporary half black morocco, Paris, 1857. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Beardsley (Aubrey).- Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japanese vellum, Leonard Smithers, 1896. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Douglas (Lord Alfred) Sonnets, first edition, the dedication copy, with signed presentation inscription from the author to his wife Olive Custance, The Academy, 1909. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum Auctions
    The Library of Barry Humphries
    26th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 26: Crowley (Aleister) The Works..., 3 vol. in 1 (as issued)"Essay Competition" issue on India paper, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1905-07. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Rodin (Auguste).- Mirbeau (Octave) Le Jardin des Supplices, one of 30 copies on chine with an additional suite, bound in dark purple goatskin, Paris, 1902. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Pellar (Hans) Eight original book illustrations for 'Der verliebte Flamingo' [together with] a published copy of the first edition of the book, 1923. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Cretté (Georges, binder).- Louÿs (Pierre) Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 2 vol., one of 99 copies, with 2 original drawings, superbly bound in blue goatskin, gilt, Paris, 1930. £3,000 to £4,000.
  • <b><center>Sotheby's<BR>Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> William Blake | <i>Songs of Innocence and of Experience.</i> Sold: 4,320,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD <b><center>Sotheby's<BR>Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for <i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.</i> Sold: 1,920,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Machiavelli | <i>Il Principe,</i> a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Leonardo da Vinci | <i>Trattato della pittura,</i> ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Henri Matisse | <i>Jazz,</i> Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • <b><center>Swann<br>Printed & Manuscript African Americana<br>March 20, 2025</center></b> <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, <i>The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism,</i> London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 78: Victor H. Green, <i>The Negro Travelers' Green Book,</i> New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, <i>What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas,</i> Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000. <b><center>Swann<br>Printed & Manuscript African Americana<br>March 20, 2025</center></b> <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 263: Susan Paul, <i>Memoir of James Jackson,</i> Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 267: Langston Hughes, <i>Gypsy Ballads,</i> signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 367: Solomon Northup, <i>Twelve Years a Slave,</i> Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, <i>A Voice from the South,</i> Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
  • <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000 <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000 <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000 <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000. <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000 <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
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