Arenberg Auctions: October Auction, 101625, BRUSSEL

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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Sacha Guitry

Des gouts et des couleurs. Aquarelles de Dignimont.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 130.00
177 Theo Hannon

Rimes de joie. Avec une preface de J.-K. Huysmans. Un frontispice et trois gravures a l'eau-forte de Felicien Rops.

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 416.00
178 Georges Hugnet

Le droit de Varech. Precede par Le muet ou Les secrets de la vie. Illustre de cinq lithographies par Eugene Berman.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 338.00
179 HUGO, Victor

2 editions originales en reliures similaires.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,040.00
180 HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl

Croquis parisiens. Eaux-fortes de Forain et Raffaelli.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,105.00
181 Eugene Ionesco

Journal en miettes.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 195.00
182 KARR, Alphonse

Voyage autour de mon jardin.

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 585.00
183 Joseph Rudyard Kipling

An almanac of twelve sports. By William Nicholson. Words by Rudyard Kipling.

EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 260.00
184 LA BOETIE, Etienne de

De la servitude volontaire ou Le Contre'un.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,690.00
185 LA FONTAINE, Jean de

Les fables [...]. Eaux-fortes originales de T. Polat.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 650.00
186 LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.

Le chercheur d'or.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 234.00
187 LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.

La quarantaine.

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 234.00
188 LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.

La ronde et autres faits divers.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 130.00
189 (LE ROY, Gregoire)

[A moi-meme]. (Image par Stan Van Offel).

EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 208.00
190 Maurice Leloir

Une femme de qualite au siecle passe. Paris 1778.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 455.00
191 LESAGE, Alain-Rene

Gil Blas de Santillane. Edition reduite et revisee par Leo Claretie. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir.

EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 182.00
192 LOTI, Pierre

3 ouvrages en edition originale.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 910.00
193 MAETERLINCK, Maurice

Pelleas et Melisande. Illustrations de Carlos Schwab.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 234.00
194 MAETERLINCK, Maurice

La sagesse et la destinee.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 780.00
195 MALLARME, Stephane

Vers et prose. Morceaux choisis. Avec un portrait par James M. N. Whistler.

EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 780.00
196 MAROT, Clement

Ballades, rondeaux & chansons. Eaux-fortes en couleurs et bois dessines et graves par Georges Bruyer.

EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 130.00
197 MARTIN, Louis-Aime

Le langage des fleurs. Douzieme edition, orne de 16 nouvelles planches.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 195.00
198 MASEFIELD, John

Reynard the Fox or The Great Heath Run.

EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 182.00
199 Frans Masereel

Idee. Sa naissance, sa vie, sa mort. 83 images, dessinees et gravees sur bois [...].

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,300.00
200 MAURIAC, Francois

Ce qui etait perdu. Roman.

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 195.00
  • 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.
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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.