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Catawiki B. V.: Science & Nature Books Auction

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Auction Name Science & Nature Books Auction Total Sales (EUR) 4,933.34
Auction Date April 26, 2026 - April 26, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 9,600.00
Sale Number #42626a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 11,200.00
Total Lots 25
Sold Lots 10.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 28,975.00
% of Lots Sold 40.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 34,350.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 14.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102774290 Jean Breton de la Martiniere

Le Japon ou mœurs, usages et costumes des habitans de cet empire [Suivi] Le Japon ou Voyage de Paul

1818/1822 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,199.00
102977947 Francesco Redi

Opere di Francesco Redi gentiluomo aretino

1712 EUR 650.00 - 800.00 EUR 545.00
103072316 Henricus Niderndorff [Heinrich Niederndorf]

Generalis Geographia Cosmica, Mathematica, Naturalis, Politica, Cum Speciali

1739 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,250.00 EUR 534.10
102332746 Societa di naturalisti sotto la direzione di F.-E. Guerin

Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phenomenes de la nature

1835/1857 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 523.20
103038260 Mrs Lasenby Liberty

Japan. A pictorial record by Mrs. Lasenby Liberty

1910 EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 501.40
103113645 J.J. Rousseau

Recueil de plantes coloriees, pour servir a l'intelligence des lettres elementaires sur la botanique

1789 EUR 500.00 - 550.00 EUR 441.45
102819704 Carl Linnaeus

Fauna Svecica

1761 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 385.86
102821500 Salvatore Marroni

Album. Costumi di Roma e suoi contorni

1840 EUR 1,300.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 370.60
102934242 M. F*** D.D.F.D.B.

Traite des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle

1747 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 223.45
103077783 Johann Gottlieb Walpurger

Cosmotheologische Betrachtungen derer wichtigsten Wunder und Wahrheiten im Reiche der Natur und

1754/1748 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 209.28
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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