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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
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    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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