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Catawiki B. V.: Literature & Illustrated Books Auction

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Auction Name Literature & Illustrated Books Auction Total Sales (EUR) 5,888.18
Auction Date April 03, 2026 - April 03, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 6,975.00
Sale Number #40326b High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 8,325.00
Total Lots 18
Sold Lots 10.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 18,900.00
% of Lots Sold 55.56% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 21,675.00
Unsold Lots 8 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 27.17%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102197157 Dante / Salvador Dali

La Divina Commedia

1964/1963 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,270.00
102241594 Ernest Hemingway

Complete works – Easton Press Collector’s Edition

1990 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 708.50
102408272 Mariano Jose de Larra

El doncel de Don Enrique el Doliente: historia caballeresca del siglo XV - Primera edicion muy rara

1834 EUR 400.00 - 450.00 EUR 381.50
102173273 Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener / Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (illustrations)

Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabeners Satiren- 8 volumes complete

1765/1766 EUR 600.00 - 750.00 EUR 301.93
102290352 Dante Alighieri / A. Razzolini

La Divina Commedia

1902 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 283.40
102024220 J. R. R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion. First Edition, First Impression.

1977 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 277.95
102358212 Daniel Defoe

The Whole Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner …

1785 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 253.97
102238426 JRR Tolkien

The Return of the King: RARE First US Edition/First Impression

1956 EUR 225.00 - 275.00 EUR 203.83
102237416 Jacobus Masenius [Jakob Masen]

Ars Nova Argutiarum Eruditae & Honestae Recreationis: In duas partes divisa, Prima Est Epigrammatum,

1711 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 EUR 109.00
102275855 Karl Reinhardt

Der Bar und der Mond (satire op de Krimoorlog)

1855 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 98.10
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
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    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
    Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000