# Desiderius Erasmus - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T21:21:28.408Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 39
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2013-04-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-17
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $70 to $40,000

## Market Takeaway
Desiderius Erasmus shows developing auction liquidity with 39 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-17.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $180 and $2,600.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 60% (15 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 32% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 8% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $220
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-17
- Days since latest sale: 124
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bassenge Auctions: 15 lots
- Arenberg Auctions: 5 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 2 lots
- Bonanova Subastas: 2 lots
- Koller Auctions: 2 lots
- Kunst\-und Auktionshaus Schloss Hagenburg: 2 lots
- Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver: 1 lots
- Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG: 1 lots
- Dusseldorfer Auktionshaus: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-17 | Familiarium colloquiorum opus \[…\]. Brevis ejusdem auctoris vita \[…\]. | Arenberg Auctions | €450
2. 2025-10-07 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Paraphrasis oder Postilla Teütsch. Zürich, Froschauer, 1552 | Bassenge Auctions | N/A
3. 2025-10-07 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Lingua | Bassenge Auctions | €180
4. 2025-10-07 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Familiarium colloquiorum opus | Bassenge Auctions | €220
5. 2025-09-17 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius. | Koller Auctions | CHF 3,000
6. 2025-04-04 | Éloge de la folie. Nouvellement traduit du latin \[...\] par M. de La Veaux. Avec les figures de Jean Holbein \[...\]. | Arenberg Auctions | €220
7. 2025-03-13 | Desiderius Erasmus, Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc emendatiora. Amstelodami: apud Jodocum Jansonium, 1644. | Gonnelli Casa d'Aste | €150
8. 2024-10-12 | De utraq\[ue\] verborum ac rerum copia lib. II. | Arenberg Auctions | €100
9. 2024-10-12 | Colloquiorum familiarium opus. | Arenberg Auctions | €170
10. 2024-10-12 | De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarii duo \[...\]. | Arenberg Auctions | €700
11. 2024-09-18 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius. | Koller Auctions | CHF 1,500
12. 2024-04-17 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Colloquia | Bassenge Auctions | N/A
13. 2024-04-17 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Epitome Adagiorum | Bassenge Auctions | N/A
14. 2024-04-17 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Adagiorum chilidades quatuor | Bassenge Auctions | €500
15. 2023-10-11 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Encomio della pazzia | Bassenge Auctions | N/A
16. 2023-10-10 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Epistolae ad diversos | Bassenge Auctions | €2,600
17. 2022-10-11 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Erasmi Roterodami paraphrasis in servatoris et domini nostri Jesu Christi Novum Testamentum | Bassenge Auctions | €200
18. 2022-10-11 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Omnia Opera | Bassenge Auctions | €7,500
19. 2022-08-23 | EARLY PRINTING: | Sworders | £650
20. 2021-04-13 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: In evangelium Lucae paraphrasis. | Bassenge Auctions | €1,300
21. 2021-04-13 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Paraphrasis oder Erklärung | Bassenge Auctions | €3,400
22. 2021-04-13 | Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius: Erasmi Roterodami paraphrasis in servatoris et domini nostri Jesu Christi Novum Testamentum | Bassenge Auctions | N/A
23. 2020-12-12 | Desiderius ERASMUS \- Colloquia cum notis ... accurante | Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver | €70
24. 2020-12-09 | Desiderius Erasmus \(1466\-1536\) L'ELOGE DE LA FOLIE. 1751 | Christie's | £5,250

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