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
1248 CHEFFONTAINE, Christophe Penfeunteniou

[Philosophy] Response familiere a une epistre escrite contre le liberal arbitre, & les merites des bonnes oeuvres, par laquelle l'on donne une ouverture d'accord [...] entre les Chrestiens [...]

1571 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,600.00
1249 JOHANNES SARISBERIENSIS

[Plantin Press - Politics] Policraticus: sive De nugis curialium, & vestigiis philosophorum, libri octo

1595 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 312.00
1250 CICERO, Marcus Tullius

[Plantin Press] Epistolae; ad T. Pomponium Atticum. Ex fide vetustissimorum codicum emendatae, studio & opera Simeonis Bosii praetoris Lemovicensis

1582 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,040.00
1251 MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius

[Plantin Press] Epigrammaton libri XII. Xeniorum liber I. Apophoretorum liber I. [...]

1579 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 520.00
1252 FILELFO, Francesco

[Postincunable - Badius] Epistolarum D. Francisci Philelphi [...] unius et viginti libri reliqui qui post sedecim sunt reperti

24 September 1503 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 520.00
1253 [USUARDUS SANGERMANENSIS]

[Postincunable - Val Notre-Dame] Martyrologium se[cun]d[u]m morem Romane curie (emendatum per magistrum Belinum de Padua ordinis fratrum eremitarum sancti Augustini)

29 December 1521 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,300.00
1254 SLEIDANUS, Johannes

[Protestantism] Commentariorum de statu religionis & Reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesare, libri XXVI. Una cnm [!] apologia [...]

[c. 1560] EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 468.00
1255 PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS, Aurelius

Opera multo quam antea castigatiora, praetera & Aelii Antonii Nebrissensis commentariis haud poenitendis illustrata quibus insuper adglutinata sunt scholia Ioannis Sichardi, quae omnia nunc primum in philomusorum gratia[m] excusa sunt [...]

1540 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 130.00
1256 MERCURIALE, Girolamo

[Sports - Architecture] De arte gymnastica libri sex [...]

1573 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,800.00
1257

[Theology] 3 important works in 2 vol. printed in Leuven, incl. a very rare early Latin ed. of Bacherius' "Hortulus precationum"

1570 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 442.00
1258

[Theology] 3 theological treatises bound together

1534 and 1536 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 260.00
1259 Sebastian Vrancx

De arbore scientiae boni et mali, ex quo Adamus morte[m] comedit, & adhuc hodie cuncti ho mines mortem comedunt [...]

1561 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 416.00
1260 NAUSEA, Friedrich

[Theology] In catholicum catechismum libri quinque [...]

1551 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 221.00
1261 VIVES, Juan Luis

De ratione studii puerilis epistole due [...]

1537 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,820.00
1262 VAIRO, Leonardo

[Witchcraft - Demonology] De fascino libri tres, in quibus omnes fascini species et causae optima metho describuntur [...]

1583 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,105.00
1263 BINSFELD, Petrus

[Witchcraft] Tractatus de confessionibus maleficorum et sagarum recognitus & auctus [...]

1591 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,210.00
1264

[Witchcraft] Malleorum quorundam maleficarum, tam veterum quam recentiorum authorum, tomi duo

1582 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
1265 XENOPHON Atheniensis

Opera, partim graecorum exemplarium collatione recognita, partim a viris doctissimis iam primum latinitate donata [...]

1534 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 455.00
1266 XENOPHON Atheniensis

Opera, quae quidem extant omnia [...]

1551 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 208.00
1267 XENOPHON Atheniensis

Le opere [...], molto utili capitani di guerra et al viver morale et civile, tradotte dal greco da Marc'Antonio Gandini [...]

1588 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 455.00
1268 DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSEUS

[Antiquity - Prize binding] [Greek] [...] scripta, quae extant, omnia, et historica, et rhetorica [...]. Opera & studio Friderici Sylburgii Veterensis

1691 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 910.00
1269 CASALI, Giambattista

[Antiquity - Religion] Sacrae prophanaeque religionis vetustoria monumenta, hoc est : symbolicus et hieroglyphicus Aegyptiorum cultus [...] et veriores sacratioresque primorum christianorum ritus [...]

1646 (1645) EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,040.00
1270 [MARTIN, David]

[Bible illustration] Historie des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in koper gesneeden

1700 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 520.00
1271

[Bible] La Sainte Bible traduite en francois sur la Vulgate [...]

1700 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 104.00
1272

[Devotion] Hortulus animae, dat is, Der sielen bogaert [...]

1615 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 260.00
  • 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