Arenberg Auctions: December Auction Day 2, 121225, BRUSSEL

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 12, 2025 - December 12, 2025
Page Size: 347 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
871 HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Compiled by Jane Quinby.

1958-1961 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 130.00
872 NISSEN, Claus

Die botanische Buchillustration. Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. Zweite auflage [...].

1966 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 104.00
873 COLAS, Rene

Bibliographie generale du costume et de la mode [...].

1963 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 104.00
874 PHILLIPS, Philip Lee

A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress.

1971 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 104.00
875 POLAIN, Louis

Catalogue des livres imprimes au quinzieme siecle des bibliotheques de Belgique [- Supplement].

1932 [-1978] EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 104.00
876 NISSEN, Claus

Die illustrierten Vogelbucher. Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie.

#NAME? EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 104.00
877 NISSEN, Claus

Die zoologische Buchillustration. Ihre Bibliographie und Geschichte.

1969 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 195.00
878

Bibliotheca Belgica. Bibliographie generale des Pays-Bas.

1964 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 234.00
879 Jacques-Charles Brunet

Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres [...].

1966 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 104.00
880 GRAESSE, Johann Georg Theodor

Tresor de livres rares et precieux, ou Nouveau dictionnaire bibliographique contenant plus de cent mille articles de livres rares, curieux et recherches.

1950 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 117.00
881 MULLER, Frederik

Beredeneerde beschrijving van Nederlandse historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten.

1970 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 130.00
886 [ROOSES, Max (ed.)]

Titels en portretten gesneden ... P.P. Rubens.

1877 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 520.00
887 RENOUARD, Antoine-Augustin

Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages des trois Manuce.

[an] XII - 1803 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 5,850.00
888 MEERMAN, Gerardus

Origines typographicae.

1765 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 585.00
889

12 volumes on Gheeraerts, Sadeler, Stradanus and animal prints.

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 104.00
890 Jean de Brunhoff

Babar. 5 albums.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 208.00
891 HERGE

7 albums

EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 1,170.00
892 HERGE

Les aventures de Tintin. 2 albums.

EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,560.00
893 HERGE

Les aventures de Tintin. Le crabe aux pinces d'or.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,600.00
894 JACOBS, Edgard P.

Blake et Mortimer. Le piege diabolique, pl. 48.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 520.00
895 Raoul Servais

Taxandria.

EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 91.00
896 Francois Schuiten

Bearded man near a stone structure.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 650.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000