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
696	GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von	Reineke Fuchs. In zwolf Gesangen.	1832	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 286.00
697	HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl	A rebours. Pointes seches de Coussens.	1927)	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 195.00
698	LARBAUD, Valery	Beaute, mon beau souci... Roman. Illustre de trente-sept gravures par J.E. Laboureur.	1920	EUR 700.00 - 900.00	EUR 1,105.00
699	LAUTREAMONT	Les chants de Maldoror. Illustrations de Rene Magritte.	#NAME?	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 390.00
700	LESAGE, Alain-Rene	Gil Blas de Santillane. Edition reduite et revisee par Leo Claretie. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir.	[1899]	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 585.00
701	[LOUYS, Pierre]	Le crepuscule des nymphes. [Lithographies de Pierre Bonnard.	1946]	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,250.00
702	MARDRUS, Joseph-Charles	Le cantique des cantiques. Pointes seches de Mariette Lydis.	1950	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 143.00
703	MONTHERLANT, Henry de	Le cardinal d'Espagne. Gravures de Tremois.	1960)	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 104.00
704	MONTHERLANT, Henry de	La guerre civile. Illustree par Pierre-Yves Tremois.	1964)	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 78.00
705	NELLENS, Gustave	Fleurs de trottoir. Lithographies et dessins de Felix Labisse.	1971	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 260.00
706	RONSARD, Pierre de	Discours des miseres de ce temps. [Illustrations de Decaris].	1930	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 325.00
707	[SAINT-JOHN PERSE. Pseud.] SAINTLEGER LEGER	Eloges.	6 juillet 1911)	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,430.00
708	Edgard Tytgat	Le lendemain de la Saint-Nicolas. Conte et grave par Edgard Tijtgat. Preface de Louis Delattre.	#NAME?	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 10,660.00
709	Paul Valery	Cimetiere marin.	1945	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 260.00
710	VERHAEREN, Emile	Helene de Sparte. Tragedie en quatre actes.	1912	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 195.00
711	VERHAEREN, Emile	Les villes a pignons. Illustrations de H. Cassiers.	1922	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 650.00
712	Maurice de Vlaminck	Haute folie. Lithographies originales en couleurs de l'auteur.	1964	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 195.00
713	Paul Eluard	En avril 1944 : Paris respirait encore ! Poeme de Paul Eluard illustrant sept gouaches de Jean Hugo.	1945	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 195.00
714	HERACLITE	Fragments. Traduction, illustrations originales Youl.	1989	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 195.00
715	ANTONIDES VAN DER GOES, Joannes	Alle de gedichten. Hierby komt het leven des dichters. Vyfde druk.	1735	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 169.00
716	Guillaume Apollinaire	Le guetteur melancolique. Preface d'Andre Salmon. Frontispice de Picasso. Poemes inedits.	1952	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 442.00
717	[BALZAC, Honore de]	Physiologie du mariage ou Meditations de philosophie eclectique, sur le bonheur et le malheur conjugal. Publiees par un jeune celibataire.	1830	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,560.00
718	BALZAC, Honore de	3 prefacons bruxelloises.		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 442.00
719	BARBEY d'AUREVILLY, Jules	Rhythmes oublies. [- Poussieres].	1897	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 286.00
720	Maurice Barres	Un jardin sur l'Oronte.	1922	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 715.00

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.