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Rare Book Hub: 24 Auctions Archived, another 26 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Friday, 6 September 2019, 24 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; 15 denominated in US dollars, 4 in British pounds, and 5 in euros.  Turnover was $4,603,482 as 6,472 lots were offered and 5,723 sold for an 88% success rate.  Rising prices suggest demand is outstripping supply.

 

2 auctions saw total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Heritage AuctionsFall Signature Auction Featuring The Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction on September 5th: $1,437,699 
Heritage AuctionsThe Maurice Car Collection featuring Rare Books and Manuscripts on September 4th: $1,277,320 
 

4 auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered: 

Heritage AuctionsThe Maurice Car Collection featuring Rare Books and Manuscripts on September 4th: 245.37% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 8/16 on August 26th: 206.82% 
Heritage AuctionsFall Signature Auction Featuring The Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction on September 5th: 149.07% 
Keys Fine Arts AuctioneersBook Sale - Day 2 on August 30th: 107.52% 


15 sales saw at least 80% of their lots sell: 

National Book AuctionsBooks and EphemeraTurkish Manuscript, Hunt & Fish, Catholic on September 1st: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Comics - bidstart 8/25 on September 1st: 99.65% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Sports Collectibles Auction - online bidstart 8/4 on September 1st: 99.26% 
Leland Little AuctionsFine Art - Prints on September 2nd: 99.02% 
Heritage AuctionsWorld Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 8/27 on September 3rd: 98.89% 
Heritage AuctionsU.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 8/27 on September 3rd: 98.29% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 8/25 on September 1st: 98.28% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 8/16 on August 26th: 97.56% 
Heritage AuctionsThe Maurice Car Collection featuring Rare Books and Manuscripts on September 4th: 97.53% 
Heritage AuctionsFall Signature Auction Featuring The Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction on September 5th: 97.22% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on August 31st: 88.00% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) bidstart 8/23 on August 30th: 86.05% 
Bruun RasmussenPrints on September 3rd: 83.91% 
Alaska AuctionBooks and Prints on September 4th: 83.58% 
Grays AuctioneersFine Art - Prints on August 28th: 81.11% 
 
 
Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Heritage Auctions Sir Isaac Newton. Autograph Manuscript, Notes on Physics and Solid Geometry, with Two Diagrams. In Latin. [Oxford: 1694]. on September 4th Actual price: USD $399,000.
  2. Heritage Auctions Brighton Rock. A Novel. on September 5th Actual price: USD $93,750.
  3. Heritage Auctions Tristan Tzara. Autograph Manuscripts on Dada. [Paris?]; [circa 1920s]. on September 4th Actual price: USD $68,750.
  4. Heritage Auctions Ulysses. on September 5th Actual price: USD $48,125.
  5. Heritage Auctions Raymond Radiguet. Le diable au corps. Typed Manuscript with Holograph corrections. on September 4th Actual price: USD $40,000.
  6. Heritage Auctions Paul Gauguin. Autograph Manuscript. on September 4th Actual price: USD $37,500.
  7. Heritage Auctions [Francis Picabia]. Marie de la Hire, FRANCIS PICABIA. Paris: La Cible Gallery, [1920]. First edition. on September 4th Actual price: USD $36,250.
  8. Sothebys SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) ORIGINAL ARTWORK, ‘DWARFS OUTSIDE COTTAGE AT NIGHT’, BRITISH on September 5th Actual price: USD $33,550.
  9. Sothebys SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) ORIGINAL ARTWORK, ‘SNOW WHITE AND PRINCE ON HORSE’, BRITISH on September 5th Actual price: USD $33,550.
  10. Heritage Auctions Henri Matisse. Autograph Manuscript Signed. "Henri Matisse." Fifteen pages [rectos only] in French, entitled "Notes d'un peintre", 7.77" x 12.25" [pages 1-8] and 8" x 10.5" [pages 9-15], n.p.; [1908]. on September 4th Actual price: USD $31,250.
  11. Heritage Auctions Pablo Picasso. Original Abstract Ink Drawing. One page, 8.25" x 10.5", n.p. [Paris]; 1942. on September 4th Actual price: USD $30,000.
  12. Heritage Auctions In Did Come the Strangest Figure. on September 5th Actual price: USD $30,000.
  13. Heritage Auctions Paul Gauguin. Tahitian or Polynesian-French Dictionary. AM. Four pages (both sides of two separate sheets), 8" x 12.25"; [Tahiti?]; [ca. 1890s]. Gauguin probably created this manuscript during one of the two periods of time he lived in Tahiti. There are a on September 4th Actual price: USD $27,500.
  14. Sothebys BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) POSTER, US on September 5th Actual price: USD $25,925.
  15. Heritage Auctions Why Didn't They Ask Evans? on September 5th Actual price: USD $22,500.
  16. Heritage Auctions The Mystery of the Blue Train. on September 5th Actual price: USD $22,500.
  17. Heritage Auctions Paul Cezanne. Autograph Letter Signed With Sketches. ALS. "Paul Cezanne." One page in French, with two sketches, 5.5" x 8.75", Aix; October 19, 1906. on September 4th Actual price: USD $21,250.
  18. Sothebys GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) ORIGINAL ARTWORK, US on September 5th Actual price: USD $19,825.
  19. Lark Mason Associates Anno Regni Georgi II. The Intolerable Acts and Other Bills on August 27th Actual price: USD $19,375.
  20. Heritage Auctions Paul Gauguin. Autograph Letter Signed. on September 4th Actual price: USD $18,750.
  21. Heritage Auctions The Mysterious Mr. Quin. on September 5th Actual price: USD $18,750.
  22. Sothebys TOP HAT (1935) POSTER, SWEDISH on September 5th Actual price: USD $18,300.
  23. Lark Mason Associates Common Sense Addressed to The Inhabitants of America, London on August 27th Actual price: USD $18,125.
  24. Heritage Auctions The Murder on the Links. on September 5th Actual price: USD $17,500.
  25. Heritage Auctions [Picasso]. Honoré de Balzac. LE CHEF-D'OEUVRE INCONNU. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931. Limited and extra-illustrated edition based on the 1831 first edition. on September 4th Actual price: USD $16,250.



24 total sales reported this week:

Alaska Auction. Books and Prints on September 4th: 83.58%
Cowans Auctions. Books and Manuscripts: Timed Auction launch 8/22 on September 3rd: 74.69%
Lark Mason Associates. Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Stamps - online bidstart 8/8 on August 27th: 55.80%
PBA Galleries. Rare Books and Manuscripts on September 5th: 73.42%
Heritage Auctions. Fall Signature Auction Featuring The Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction on September 5th: 97.22%
Grays Auctioneers. Fine Art - Prints on August 28th: 81.11%
Leland Little Auctions. Fine Art - Prints on September 2nd: 99.02%
Sothebys. Original Film Posters - Online bidstart 8/23 on September 5th: 76.84%
National Book Auctions. Books and EphemeraTurkish Manuscript, Hunt & Fish, Catholic on September 1st: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. The Maurice Car Collection featuring Rare Books and Manuscripts on September 4th: 97.53%
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Book Sale - Day 2 on August 30th: 64.75%
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Book Sale - Day 1 on August 29th: 69.83%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on September 3rd: 83.91%
Forum Auctions. Online Sale: Maps and Atlases on August 29th: 67.63%
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 8/27 on September 3rd: 98.89%
Heritage Auctions. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 8/27 on September 3rd: 98.29%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 8/25 on September 1st: 99.65%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles Auction - online bidstart 8/4 on September 1st: 99.26%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) bidstart 8/23 on August 30th: 86.05%
Catawiki B. V.. Cartography - Bidstart 8/23 on August 29th: 40.00%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 8/16 on August 25th: 71.43%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 8/16 on August 26th: 97.56%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 8/25 on September 1st: 98.28%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on August 31st: 88.00%


For the week ahead 26 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Sep. 9th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Long Beach Expo U.S. Currency - Session 5. 1463 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Long Beach Expo World Currency - Session 3. 601 lots
Winter Associates. Plainville, CT . Prints. 8 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 8/30. 78 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 57 lots

Tue. Sep. 10th
Sothebys. London. Made in Britain. 112 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 9/3. 474 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 9/3. 197 lots
Dorotheum . Vienna. Antiques and Art: Books. 19 lots

Wed. Sep. 11th
Old World Auctions. Richmond. Maps and Atlases - Internet bidstart 8/28. 827 lots
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Printed Books, Maps and Documents. 410 lots
Freemans. Philadelphia. Photography and Photobooks. 253 lots
Bonhams. New York. Fine Japanese and Korean Art - Prints. 149 lots

Thu. Sep. 12th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. The Glynn and Suzanne Crain Science Fiction Collection Online Auction. 472 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction - online bidstart 8/16. 825 lots
Morton Subastas. México DF CP 11000. Graphic Work and Photography. 281 lots

Fri. Sep. 13th
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Lancaster. Book Auction. 397 lots
Brunk Auctions. Asheville, NC . Emporium Auction. 55 lots

Sat. Sep. 14th
Neal Auction Company. New Orleans. Important Estates Auction. 87 lots
Clars Auction Gallery. Oakland. Prints and Photographs. 129 lots
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper. 200 lots
Brunk Auctions. Asheville, NC . Premier Auction - Books, Prints. 78 lots

Sun. Sep. 15th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 9/8. 211 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 9/8.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 9/8.
Clars Auction Gallery. Oakland. Prints and Photographs. 68 lots

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.