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Rare Book Hub: 31 Auctions Archived, another 42 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Friday 11 October 2019 31 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database, 10 denominated in euros, 4 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, and 16 in US dollars.  Turnover was $8,052,210 as 9,940 lots were offered and 8,084 sold for an 81% success rate.  The high sell-through rate suggests that there are more bidders than there are lots to buy.  The norm over the past twenty years has been a 75% sell-through.

 

2 auctions saw total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Morphy AuctionsAutomobilia and Petroliana on October 7th: $2,254,511 
Swann GalleriesFine Books and Manuscripts on October 10th: $1,007,600 


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

TooveysPost Cards, Cigarette and Trade Cards, Photographs and Ephemera on October 8th: 181.32% 
Lyon and TurnbullRare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs on October 9th: 139.13% 
PandolfiniWorks on Paper - Prints on October 1st: 120.55% 
John McInnis AuctioneersA Collection of Maritime Antiques - Session 2 on October 6th: 115.77% 
Forum AuctionsOnline Sale: Books and Works on Paper on October 3rd: 114.01% 


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

Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 9/20 on September 30th: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsU.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 10/1 on October 8th: 99.68% 
Heritage AuctionsWorld Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 10/1 on October 8th: 99.52% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Comics - bidstart 9/29 on October 6th: 99.23% 
Morphy AuctionsAutomobilia and Petroliana on October 7th: 98.03% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 9/8 on October 6th: 97.99% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 9/29 on October 6th: 97.17% 
TooveysPost Cards, Cigarette and Trade Cards, Photographs and Ephemera on October 8th: 94.59% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 9/27 on October 4th: 91.23% 
TooveysDecorative Pictures - Prints on October 9th: 90.00% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on October 5th: 88.50% 
Forum AuctionsOnline Sale: Books and Works on Paper on October 3rd: 87.96% 
Bruun RasmussenPrints on October 8th: 82.86% 
PBA GalleriesFine Literature on October 10th: 82.42% 
Swann GalleriesFine Books and Manuscripts on October 10th: 82.22% 

 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Lyon and Turnbull ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION on October 9th Actual price: USD $198,250.
  2. Christies The Picture of Dorian Gray. on October 7th Actual price: USD $110,000.
  3. Swann Galleries Two volumes - Juvenal and Persius. The Satires * Euripides. The Tragedies, vol. III. on October 10th Actual price: USD $106,250.
  4. Christies La Conqueste de la Hollande en 1672, par Louis XIV Dieu-donné, surnommé Le Grand, Roi de France et de Navarre. on October 7th Actual price: USD $93,500.
  5. Christies Exemplaire d'épreuves sur Chine, tel que paru, bien complet de ses deux couvertures en peau de vélin avec titre à froid et chaque serpente conservée. on October 7th Actual price: USD $68,750.
  6. Lyon and Turnbull CASINO ROYALE on October 9th Actual price: USD $67,100.
  7. Christies La Chèvre-Feuille. on October 7th Actual price: USD $66,000.
  8. Christies De umbris idearum – Ars memoriae. on October 7th Actual price: USD $57,750.
  9. Ader L.A.S., [Pont-Aven septembre 1894], à William Molard on October 3rd Actual price: USD $54,912.
  10. Swann Galleries Illustrations of the Book of Job. on October 10th Actual price: USD $52,500.
  11. Christies Champfleury, au quel est contenu lart & science de la deue & vraye proportion des lettres attiques… selon le Corps & Visage humain. on October 7th Actual price: USD $49,500.
  12. Tessier & Sarrou and Associates LA FEMME DU BOULANGER Marcel Pagnol. 1938 on October 4th Actual price: USD $44,000.
  13. Ader Manuscrit autographe signé, Le Champ d’oliviers on October 3rd Actual price: USD $43,648.
  14. Morphy Auctions Complete Coors Dairy Die Cut Porcelain Cow Neon Sign W/ Bullnose. on October 7th Actual price: USD $43,520.
  15. Morphy Auctions Extremely Rare Buffalo Brand Gasoline Oils & Grease Embossed Tin Sign W/ Wood Frame. on October 7th Actual price: USD $43,050.
  16. Christies Paris sans fin. on October 7th Actual price: USD $41,250.
  17. Morphy Auctions Outstanding Bengal Pep & Power Gasoline Porcelain Sign W/ Tiger Graphic. on October 7th Actual price: USD $40,590.
  18. Ader Manuscrit autographe signé, Voyage en Orient. I. La Cange, février 1850 on October 3rd Actual price: USD $36,608.
  19. Lyon and Turnbull LIVE AND LET DIE on October 9th Actual price: USD $36,600.
  20. Tessier & Sarrou and Associates ANGÈLE Marcel Pagnol. 1934 on October 4th Actual price: USD $34,375.
  21. RR Auction Bruce Lee ALS on October 10th Actual price: USD $30,215.
  22. Swann Galleries Autograph album containing 30 items on October 10th Actual price: USD $30,000.
  23. Heritage Auctions Raising the Flag on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo Jima on October 4th Actual price: USD $30,000.
  24. Heritage Auctions Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico on October 4th Actual price: USD $27,500.
  25. Ader Manuscrit autographe signé, Le Livre ouvert I (1938-1940) on October 3rd Actual price: USD $25,344.



31 total sales reported this week:

Morton Subastas. MEXICAN HISTORY BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS, FROM PRE-HISPANIC TIMES TO THE FIRST REPUBLIC on October 9th: 36.33%
RR Auction. Fine Autographs and Artifacts - Bidstart 9/20 on October 10th: 55.98%
PBA Galleries. Fine Literature on October 10th: 82.42%
Swann Galleries. Fine Books and Manuscripts on October 10th: 82.22%
Lyon and Turnbull. Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs on October 9th: 76.96%
Tooveys. Decorative Pictures - Prints on October 9th: 90.00%
Tooveys. Post Cards, Cigarette and Trade Cards, Photographs and Ephemera on October 8th: 94.59%
Morphy Auctions. Automobilia and Petroliana on October 7th: 98.03%
John McInnis Auctioneers. A Collection of Maritime Antiques - Session 2 on October 6th: 64.52%
John McInnis Auctioneers. A Collection of Maritime Antiques - Session 1 on October 5th: 64.08%
Vermot de Pas. Books and Bindings, Posters and Old Paper on October 8th: 53.41%
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 10/1 on October 8th: 99.52%
Heritage Auctions. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 10/1 on October 8th: 99.68%
Grays Auctioneers. Prints and Books on October 2nd: 57.14%
Christies. Books and Rare Manuscripts on October 7th: 77.78%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on October 8th: 82.86%
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates. Posters on October 4th: 27.94%
Potomack Company. Online Auction: Robert McNamara Estate, and Diana Byfield McNamara Book Collection on October 4th: 51.25%
Potomack Company. Online Auction - Books, Prints on October 3rd: 62.18%
Forum Auctions. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper on October 3rd: 87.96%
Purcell Auctioneers. Irish Interest Book & Ephemera Auction on October 2nd: 74.17%
Pandolfini. Works on Paper - Prints on October 1st: 72.73%
Ader. Letters, Manuscripts and Autographs on October 3rd: 61.79%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 9/29 on October 6th: 99.23%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 9/29 on October 6th: 97.17%
Heritage Auctions. Photographs on October 4th: 75.56%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 9/8 on October 6th: 97.99%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 9/27 on October 4th: 91.23%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 9/20 on September 30th: 100.00%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 9/20 on September 29th: 65.71%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on October 5th: 88.50%


For the week ahead 42 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Oct. 14th
Winter Associates. Plainville, CT . Black Americana, Nautical, etc.. 47 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 10/4. 61 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 58 lots

Tue. Oct. 15th
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Book Auction.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 10/8. 700 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 10/8. 194 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Illustration Art. 493 lots
Artoria S.A.. Genève. Autographs, Manuscripts and Books. 368 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 9/27. 20 lots
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Valuable Books (Varia). 305 lots
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Manuscripts and Old Prints.
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Literature and Book Illustrations.

Wed. Oct. 16th
Chiswick Auctions. London. Autographs and Memorabilia. 425 lots
Binoche et Giquello. rue La Boetie, Paris. ALEXANDRE TRAUNER (1906-1993) AND HIS ENTOURAGE: PHOTOGRAPHS, DECORATIONS, DOCUMENTS. 276 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Monthly Photographs Online - bidstart 9/26. 124 lots
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Autographs. 448 lots
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. Prints, Books. 67 lots

Thu. Oct. 17th
ALDE. Paris. Autographs, Letters and Manuscripts. 151 lots
Swann Galleries. New York. Classic and Contemporary Photographs. 429 lots
AntiquarianAuctions.com. Cape Town. Rare Books - Internet Bidstart 10/10. 603 lots
Morphy Auctions. Denver. The John Yarbrough Coca Cola Collection. 266 lots
Forum Auctions. London. Online sale: Modern Literature, Children’s and Illustrated Books, Private Press and Limited Editions. 181 lots
Eldreds. East Dennis,. Fine and Decorative Arts - Prints, Books, etc.. 28 lots
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Ancient and Modern Books. 204 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Space and Aviation - Internet bidstart 10/10. 684 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. The MAD Collection of Annie Gaines Ashton Online Auction. 145 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Fall Sports Memorabilia Collectibles. 1231 lots
Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers. Columbus. The Collection of Jim Richards, Duck Creek Books -Online bidstart 10/7. 352 lots
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Modern Literature and Art Documentation. 607 lots
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. Books, Prints. 74 lots

Fri. Oct. 18th
Potter and Potter Auctions. Chicago. Fine Books and Manuscripts. 640 lots
ALDE. Paris. French Classics. 284 lots
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Autographs and Documents.
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 10/11. 110 lots

Sat. Oct. 19th
Arenberg Auctions. BRUSSEL. Prints and Drawings (old and modern). 620 lots
Rachel Davis Fine Arts. Cleveland. Fine Art - Prints. 140 lots
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper. 200 lots
Nadeau's Auction Gallery. Windsor. Mars and Neptune Sale. 45 lots

Sun. Oct. 20th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 9/22. 155 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 10/13.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 10/13.
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 10/11. 45 lots

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • 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.
  • 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