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 Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
645 [Iran] BAKHT, A

Family album from Iranian high society.

early 20th c EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
646

Press photo reportage on Israel.

1965-1967 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
647 SOMMER, Georgio

Pittoresque views of South in Italia.

C. 1870 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
648

4 views of Venice.

C. 1870-1880 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
649 Michele Ficarelli

85 photographs of Italy.

C. 1930 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
650 VASCONI, Piero

31 photographs of Italy: Venezia and Como Lake.

C. 1920-1930 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
651 Adolfo Farsari

"Sumo Fighters - Wrestlers. Japon".

C. 1886 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
652 Man Ray

La photographie n'est pas l'art. 12 photographies. Avant-propos de Andre Breton.

1937 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
653 Willy Maywald

Bettina.

c. 1950 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
654 Willy Maywald

Tamara de Lempicka.

1951 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
655 Peter (1900) David

The metallic plate: the art of photography.

1994 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
656

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.

Early 20th c EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
657

North America, Native Americans and Inuit.

Late 19th c EUR 170.00 - 200.00 Unknown
658

Souvenir album of a Belgian family's trip to North America.

May - June 1912 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
659

Studio portraits of Native Americans in traditional costumes.

1860-1890 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
660

Album of charming nude models posing in nature.

C. 1900 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
661 RIEBICKE, Gerhard (attributed to)

Nude woman jumping in a field.

C. 1930-1935 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
662

Papua New Guinea: travel album.

1910 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
663 Jean Clemmer

Dali et Ginesta, la coupe de champagne.

1964 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Unknown
664 Armand Rassenfosse

Armand Rassenfosse dans son atelier.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
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 Unknown
666 Sarah Bernhardt

5 portraits of women.

C. 1890-1910 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Unknown
667

Belgian family album.

Late 19th c. EUR 70.00 - 90.00 Unknown
668

C. 1000 cartes-de-visite.

C. 1870-1900 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
669

C. 500 cartes-de-visite.

1850-1900 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
  • 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.