Arenberg Auctions: December Auction Day 3, 121325, BRUSSEL

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 13, 2025 - December 13, 2025
Page Size: 450 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
897 Franz Joseph Heinrich Braun

Alexandria, vetustissimum Aegypti emporium [...]

Late 16th c EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 520.00
898 COMMELIN, Isaac

[America - Brazil] 't Neemen van de suyker prysen in de Bay de Todo los Santos

[1651] EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 260.00
899

[America - Brazil] Olinda de Phernambuco

[C. 1657] EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 416.00
900 [MERCATOR, Gerard; HONDIUS, Jodocus]

[America] 2 decorative maps of America and the Caribbean

Early 17th c EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 416.00
901 DE WIT, Frederik

[Asia] Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula recens emendata

[c. 1675] EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 494.00
902 VALK, Gerard & Leonard

[Asia] Asia qua nulla beatior ora [...]

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 312.00
903 VISSCHER, Claes Jansz

[Belgium - Antwerp] Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii

[1624 or later] EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 650.00
904 Franz Joseph Heinrich Braun

Brugae, Flandricarum urbium ornamenta

[C. 1572-1574] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 494.00
905 Joan Blaeu

Bruxella

17th c EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 780.00
906 DOSSERAY, E.

[Belgium - Brussels] Nouveau plan panorama de Bruxelles et ses environs

20th c EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 390.00
907 BLAEU, Joan (after)

[Belgium - Damme] Dammum munitissimum Flandriae oppidum, vulgo Damme

Late 17th-early 18th c EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 156.00
908 ORTELIUS, Abraham. MERCATOR, Gerard (after)

[Belgium - Flanders] Flandriae comitatus descriptio

1590 [before 1612] EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 416.00
909 VISSCHER, Nicolaes

[Belgium - Leuven] Lovaniensis tetrarchia una cum Arscotano Ducatu in eiusdem ditiones subiacentes accuratissime divisa

[17th c.] EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 130.00
910 Franz Joseph Heinrich Braun

Mons

Late 16th c EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 130.00
911 DU VAL, Pierre

[Belgium - Netherlands] Les XVII provinces des Pais-Bas

1776 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 182.00
912 Hubert Dumont

Carte geologique de la Belgique d'apres la carte geologique originale a l'echelle du 40.000 dressee par ordre du gouvernement

Early 20th c EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 468.00
913 VAN LANGREN, Hendrik Floris. AITSINGER, Michael (after)

[Belgium] Leo Belgicus

[1617] EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 10,660.00
914 Abraham Ortelius

Geographia sacra

[1608-1612] EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 286.00
915 Vincenzo Coronelli

Planisfero meridionale, corretto, et accresciuto di molte stelle

Late 17th c EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,690.00
916 Vincenzo Coronelli

Planisfero settentrionale, corretto, et accresciuto di molte stelle

Late 17th c EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,950.00
917 [Europe] MERCATOR, Rumold

Europa, ad magnae Europae Gerardi Mercatoris P. imitationem [...]

[1595 or later] EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 650.00
918 Abraham Ortelius

Europae

[C. 1584] EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 845.00
919 Abraham Ortelius

Europae

[1584-1609] EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 845.00
920 Jean (1908) Clerc

L'Isle de France et lieux circo[n]voysins

[1619 or later] EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 260.00
921 Abraham Ortelius

L'Isle de France. Parisiensis Agri descrip

1598 [before 1612] EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 312.00
  • 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