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
947 BLAEU, Willem Jansz (after)

[Nautical chart - North Sea] Pascaarte van Hollandt Zeelant ende Vlaanderen, van Texel af tot deur de Hoofden [...]. Carte marine de Hollande Zeelande et Flandres [...]

[17th c.] EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 975.00
948 Pieter Jacobsz. Codde

Afbeeldinge vande vermaerde Seehaven ende Stadt van Duynkercken met der omliggende plaetsen, sanden ende droochten [...]. Pourtraict de la fameuse ville et havre de Duynckercke [...]

[17th c.] EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 156.00
949 Pieter Goos

Pascaart van de Noord Zee, van Texel, tot de Hoofden

[17th c.] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 468.00
950 [WAGHENAER, Lucas Jansz (after)]

[Nautical chart - North Sea] A description of the iles of Sealand as they lie upon all ye rivers & chanells with a part of the sea coastes of Holland and Flanders

[1588] EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,560.00
951 Carel Allard

De haven en straat van Gibraltar

[early 18th c.] EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 364.00
952 Wenzel Hollar

2 impressions of the same plate: plan and view of the Battle of the Slaak (1631)

17th c EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 195.00
953 ORTELIUS, Abraham (after)

[Netherlands - Belgium] 4 small, hand-coloured maps from various "Epitome"-editions

17th c EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 442.00
954 GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico

[Netherlands - Vlissingen] Vlissinghe. Dlant van Walcheren

[C. 1581-1582] EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 195.00
955

[Netherlands - Zeeland] 7 leaves from Smallegange's "Nieuwe Cronyk van Zeeland", a map and view from Zeeland

17th-18th c EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 195.00
956 VISSCHER, Claes Jansz

[Netherlands - Zeeland] Comitatus Zelandiae

1657 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 910.00
957 Abraham Ortelius

Hollandiae antiquorum catthorum sedis nova descriptio, auctore Iacobo a Daventria

[1570 or later] EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 390.00
958 RIDDERBOSCH, Bernard Auguste (after)

[Optical view - Belgium] Vue du grand marche a Bruxelles

19th c EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 156.00
959

[Scandinavia - Low Countries]

18th-c. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 156.00
960 Hermanus Franciscus van Loon

Mappemonde ou Carte generale du monde en deux plans hemisphere

1706 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 104.00
961 Matthaus (1678) Seutter

Diversi globi terr-aquei statione variante et visu intercedente, per coluros tropicorum, per ambos polos [...]

[18th c.] EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 312.00
962

[Atlas - Belgium - Netherlands] Atlas portatif de la Flandre, Brabant, Artois, Hainaut, Namur, Limbourg, Liege et des environs [...]

[c. 1710] EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 845.00
963

[Atlas - Europe] Atlas assembled to order containing 92 maps of Europe

17th-18th c EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
964 [GUETTARD, Jean-Etienne; MONNET, Antoine-Grimoald]

[Atlas - France] Atlas geographi-mineralogique de France entrepris par ordre du Roy]

[c. 1780] EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,860.00
965 Covens and Mortier

[Atlas - Low Countries] Atlas assembled to order containing 60 maps, including "Atlas des Pays Bas"

17th-18th c EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 7,540.00
966 [KOHLER, Joannes David]

[Atlas - World] Descriptio Orbis Antiqui in XLIV

[18th c.] EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,690.00
967 Abraham Ortelius

Theatre de l'Univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde. Avec une brieve declaration d'icelles

1598 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 52,000.00
968 Matthaus (1678) Seutter

Atlas novus sive Tabulae geographicae totius orbis [...]

[c. 1740?] EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 7,150.00
969 LUDOLF, Hiob

[Africa - Ethiopia] Nouvelle histoire d'Abissinie, ou d'Ethiopie, tiree de l'histoire latine

1684 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 195.00
970 Romeyn de Hooghe

Les Indes Orientales et Occidentales, et autres lieux; Representes en tres-belles Figures [...] par le Sr Romein de Hooge

[c. 1700] EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 10,660.00
971

[Belgium - Antwerp] 2 illustrated albums on Antwerp

Antwerp 1868 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 169.00
  • 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