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De Baecque and Associes: Arts From Asia and Oceana

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Auction Name	Arts From Asia and Oceana	Total Sales (EUR)	18,719.80
Auction Date	December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	12,960.00
Sale Number	#166941	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	16,310.00
Total Lots	33
Sold Lots	16.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	15,680.00
% of Lots Sold	48.48%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	20,090.00
Unsold Lots	17	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	93.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
267	Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Utagawa Hiroshige II, Utagawa Sadahide and Utagawa Yoshikazu	Rare album of prints featuring thirteen works depicting Yokohama (i.e. 38 oban tate-e) by various artists		EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 12,700.00
274	Ito Shinsui (1898-1972), 1930	Print in dai oban tate-e format, from the series "Gendai bijin shu dai isshu (First Collection of Modern Beauties)", here "Yoku-go" (After the Bath),	1930	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,524.00
275	Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949)	Print oban yoko-e, titled Banyugawa, kako - Mouth of the Banyu River, signed Kiyoshi and seal,	1936	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,524.00
276	Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950)	Oban tate-e print from the "Tokyo juni dai" (Twelve Scenes of Tokyo) series, here "Kagurazaka-dori, ugo no yoru" (Night after Rain	1929	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 571.50
18		Lot of miscellaneous literature (weapons, Asian art) including "Arts of Asia", "Daruma" and "Apollo" magazines, etc.		EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 508.00
268		Two triptychs of oban tate-e prints framed under glass, "Furyu Genji sono no ume" (The elegant Genji in a garden of cherry blossoms),	19th century	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 508.00
266	Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Katsuchika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japan, 19th century	Four prints:		EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 355.60
271	Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)	Surimono print depicting Kikujido seated among chrysanthemums near a river, his brush in one hand and a leaf in the other, his ink stone at his feet	circa 1800	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 254.00
285	Japan, Meiji era, 1894	Printed Japanese map of Peking, surrounded by smaller maps of other cities in northern China (in squares around): Tianjin, Shenyang/Mukden, Lushunkou/Port Arthur, etc.)	1894	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 254.00
265	Tomioka Eisen, Toshikata Mizuno, etc. - Japan, Meiji era (1868-1912)	Album featuring thirty-five Japanese prints (many kuchi-e) by various artists such as Tomioka Eisen, Toshikata Mizuno, Takeuchi Keishu, Kajita Hanko, Toshimine, etc.,	(20th century).	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 228.60
43		Five bound volumes containing Buddhist religious texts	20th century	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 114.30
12	Kikou YAMATA	Les huit renommees, with 47 unpublished drawings by FOUJITA"	1927	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.80
6	M. CHAMPOUD	Quelques notes sur les Inro	1942	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 38.10
17	Louis GONSE	L'art japonais"	1926	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 38.10
8	Lacadio HEARN	Lettres Japonaises	1928	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.40
11	Paul CLAUDEL	Cent phrases pour eventails", copy Ndeg3127 (hors commerce).	1942	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 25.40

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