Arenberg Auctions: December Auction Day 2, 121225, BRUSSEL

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 12, 2025 - December 12, 2025

Page Size: 347 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
645	[Iran] BAKHT, A	Family album from Iranian high society.	early 20th c	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 585.00
646		Press photo reportage on Israel.	1965-1967	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 234.00
647	SOMMER, Georgio	Pittoresque views of South in Italia.	C. 1870	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 260.00
648		4 views of Venice.	C. 1870-1880	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 195.00
649	Michele Ficarelli	85 photographs of Italy.	C. 1930	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 208.00
650	VASCONI, Piero	31 photographs of Italy: Venezia and Como Lake.	C. 1920-1930	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 65.00
651	Adolfo Farsari	"Sumo Fighters - Wrestlers. Japon".	C. 1886	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 91.00
652	Man Ray	La photographie n'est pas l'art. 12 photographies. Avant-propos de Andre Breton.	1937	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,040.00
653	Willy Maywald	Bettina.	c. 1950	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 156.00
654	Willy Maywald	Tamara de Lempicka.	1951	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 390.00
655	Peter (1900) David	The metallic plate: the art of photography.	1994	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,235.00
656		Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.	Early 20th c	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 351.00
657		North America, Native Americans and Inuit.	Late 19th c	EUR 170.00 - 200.00	EUR 312.00
658		Souvenir album of a Belgian family's trip to North America.	May - June 1912	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 390.00
659		Studio portraits of Native Americans in traditional costumes.	1860-1890	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,105.00
660		Album of charming nude models posing in nature.	C. 1900	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 195.00
661	RIEBICKE, Gerhard (attributed to)	Nude woman jumping in a field.	C. 1930-1935	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 208.00
662		Papua New Guinea: travel album.	1910	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 65.00
663	Jean Clemmer	Dali et Ginesta, la coupe de champagne.	1964	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 715.00
664	Armand Rassenfosse	Armand Rassenfosse dans son atelier.		EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 312.00
665		49 portraits of families, children, couples, groups and houses in the Dutch East Indies.	Late 19th c.-early 20th c	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 156.00
666	Sarah Bernhardt	5 portraits of women.	C. 1890-1910	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 195.00
667		Belgian family album.	Late 19th c.	EUR 70.00 - 90.00	EUR 39.00
668		C. 1000 cartes-de-visite.	C. 1870-1900	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 416.00
669		C. 500 cartes-de-visite.	1850-1900	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 286.00

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
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.