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Arenberg Auctions: Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism & Belgian Royal Family

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Auction Name	Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism & Belgian Royal Family	Total Sales (EUR)	977,782.00
Auction Date	December 12, 2024 - December 14, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	626,115.00
Sale Number	#121224	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	793,710.00
Total Lots	991
Sold Lots	986	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	629,065.00
% of Lots Sold	99.50%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	797,810.00
Unsold Lots	5	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	122.56%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
908	BLAEU, Willem & Joan	Toonneel des Aerdrycs, oft Nieuwe atlas.	1642-1646	EUR 80,000.00 - 90,000.00	EUR 71,500.00
1067	[BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc de]	Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.	1770-1786	EUR 70,000.00 - 80,000.00	EUR 65,000.00
499	MAGRITTE, Rene	Lettre autographe signee a [Louis Scutenaire].	2 mars 1949	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 44,200.00
1091		Antonio Canova. L'invenzione della bellezza. Fotografie di Mimmo Jodice. Con Pensieri di Antonio Canova su le Belle Arti raccolti da Melchior Missirini. Biografia artistica contemporanea de Antonio Canova, esculto Hercules Cavalli. An Address to t...	-2009	EUR 50,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 32,500.00
933		Illuminated book of hours, in Latin.	[c. 1500/1520]	EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	EUR 31,200.00
934		Illuminated prayerbook, in Flemish.	c. 1545/1550]	EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 29,900.00
357	Hugo Claus	Genesis.	S.d	EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 27,300.00
112	Franz Hogenberg	Album with 101 news prints on the Eighty Years' War.	late 16th c	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 16,900.00
984		La Saincte Bible, en Francoys, translatee selon la pure et entiere traduction de sainct Hierome, conferee et entierement revisitee selon les plus anciens et plus correctz exemplaires [...].	10 December 1530	EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 15,600.00
1173	DEGRELLE, Leon	"La cohue de 1940". [Manuscrit original].	c. 1949]	EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 14,300.00
338	Francisco de Goya	9 etchings from "Los Caprichos".	[1799]	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 13,000.00
559	MICHAUX, Henri	Peintures. Sept poemes et seize illustrations. Avant-propos de Louis Cheronnet.	1939	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 12,220.00
962	FREDERICK II HOHENSTAUFEN	"Vidimus" in Latin of the "Bulla" of 1221 given by the German Emperor Frederick II confirming the properties and the rights granted to the Teutonic Order.	in octava sci Johannis baptiste [end of June] 1294	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 11,050.00
1018	MAIER, Michael	De circulo physico, quadrato: hoc est, Auro, eiusque virtute medicinali [...].	1616	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 11,050.00
902	DE WIT, Frederick	Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula.	1660	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 9,100.00
1014	MERCURIALE, Girolamo	De arte gymnastica libri sex [...].	1573	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 8,840.00
1128		"Un autre regard sur le roi Albert 1er de Belgique".		EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 8,840.00
623		The construction of a railway, habitation and types in Belgian Congo.	1890-1900	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 8,450.00
56		Album with the "Theatrum biblicum".	1643	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 6,760.00
909	ROBERT de VAUGONDY, [Gilles & Didier]	Atlas universel [...]. Corrige et augmente de la carte de la Republique francaise divisee en departements par C.F. Delamarche [...].	[after 1788]	EUR 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 6,240.00
937		Latin Psalter and Latin-French prayerbook.	15th c.]	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 5,850.00
1012	GRAPHEUS, Cornelius	La tresadmirable, tresmagnificque, et triumphante entree, du treshault et trespyussant Prince Philipes, prince d'Espaignes, fils de Lempereur Charles. Ve., ensemble la vraye description des spectacles, theatres, archz triumphaulx. etc. lesquelz on...	1550)	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,850.00
921	PERELLE, Adam	2 albums with views on castles and historic sites in France and Italy.	17th c	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 5,720.00
944		Armorial de l'ordre de la Toison d'or.	18e s.]	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 5,460.00
1179	[MAGRITTE, Rene]	Le vrai visage de Rex.	[c. 1937]	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 5,460.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD