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Arenberg Auctions: December Auction Day 3

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Auction Name December Auction Day 3 Total Sales (EUR) 827,931.00
Auction Date December 13, 2025 - December 13, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 524,690.00
Sale Number #121325 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 674,560.00
Total Lots 450
Sold Lots 447.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 530,990.00
% of Lots Sold 99.33% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 682,960.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 121.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
945 CAUS, Salomon de

[Manuscript map - Europe] "Les Paiis Bas ou La Basse Alemainge

En ceste annee 1624. 15eme mars EUR 120,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 156,000.00
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
1030 LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van

[World] Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert [...] naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, inhoudende een corte beschrijvinghe der selver Landen ende Zee-custen [...]

[1596; 1595] EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 41,600.00
988 MERCATOR, Gerard; HONDIUS, Jodocus

[Atlas - World] Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura

1619 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 33,800.00
1315 LA FONTAINE, Jean de

Fables choisies, mises en vers [...]

1755 [- 1759] EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 26,000.00
1125

[Devotion - Book of hours] Illuminated book of hours, in Latin

[c. 1500/1520] EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 23,400.00
1339 Antonio Cavalli

Antonio Canova. L'invenzione della bellezza

2009 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 19,500.00
984 SMALLEGANGE, Mattheus

[Netherlands - Zeeland] Nieuwe cronyk van Zeeland, eerste deel, vervattende de voor dezen uitgegeven cronyken van de heeren, Jacobus Eyndius, en Johan Reygersberg, veel vermeerdert ontrent deses landschaps oudheden en herkomsten, wateren en stroomen, eila

1696 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 13,000.00
986 Joan Blaeu

Negende stuck der aerdrycks-beschryving, welck vervat Asia, en Sina in 't selve gelegen

1664 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 12,740.00
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
1042 GLEUNS, Willem Jr.; DEUTGEN, Hendrik

[Astronomy - Instrument] Mundomotorium

1854 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
924 LA LANDE, Jerome de

[Globe - Celestial] Globe celeste ou toutes les etoiles observees jusqu'a present sont reduites a l'an[n]ee 1800

1774 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,050.00
913 VAN LANGREN, Hendrik Floris. AITSINGER, Michael (after)

[Belgium] Leo Belgicus

[1617] EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 10,660.00
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
1213 NIDER, Johannes

[Germany - Augsburg] Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive Expositio decalogi

about 24 May 1475 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,400.00
1212 BERENGARIUS de LANDORA

[Germany - Augsburg] Lumen animae

3 Sept. 1477 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
989 LEO AFRICANUS, Joannes

[Africa - America] Description de l'Afrique, tierce partie du monde [...]

1556 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 8,450.00
1256 MERCURIALE, Girolamo

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

1573 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,800.00
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
1029 HAWKESWORTH, John ; COOK, James

[World] Complete collection of the 3 "Voyages" by James Cook (1728-1779)

1773 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,540.00
968 Matthaus (1678) Seutter

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

[c. 1740?] EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 7,150.00
1214 NICOLAUS DE LYRA

[Italy - Venice] Biblia latina (cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering)

31 July 1481 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,850.00
1190

[Judaica - Paris] Recueil factice de documents notaries relatifs au Ndeg 25 rue des Rosiers a Paris, siege d'une "shoul" ou synagogue "cachee"

1778-1866 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
1264

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

1582 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
975 [SAUMERY, Pierre-Lambert ; CRASSIER, Guillaume Pascal de]

[Belgium - Liege] Les delices du pais de Liege, ou Description geographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacres et profanes [...]

1738-1744 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
  • 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