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Rare Book Hub: 35 Auctions Archived, another 24 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Friday 31 January 2020 35 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; 9 denominated in euros, 6 in British pounds, 2 in Mexican pesos, and 18 in US dollars.  Turnover was $12,266,490 as 14,366 lots were offered and 11,543 sold for an 80% success rate.  It was another strong week.

  

For the week upcoming 24 auctions are scheduled.

 

3 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Sothebys. Fine Manuscripts and Printed Americana on January 27th: $3,208,750 
Arader Galleries. Fine Art - Prints on January 25th: $2,618,047 
Bubb Kuyper. Books on November 29th: $1,619,137 

 

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

Case Antiques, Inc.. Winter Auction on January 26th: 170.23% 
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 1/10 on January 21st: 147.01% 
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps, Documents on January 29th: 145.09% 
Chorley's. Spetchley Park - The Attic Sale - Books on January 28th: 137.72% 
Grays Auctioneers. Fine Art - Prints on January 29th: 131.04% 
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates. Antiquarian Books on January 24th: 123.56% 
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 1/10 on January 20th: 114.14% 
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 1/17 on January 24th: 104.92% 


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

Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly on January 28th: 100.00% 
Leland Little Auctions. the Winter Gallery Auction on January 25th: 100.00% 
Heritage Auctions. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 1/12 on January 26th: 100.00% 
Heritage Auctions. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online on January 27th: 99.91% 
Heritage Auctions. The 1952 Topps & 1953 Topps PSA Set Registry Auction on January 30th: 99.87% 
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates. Antiquarian Books on January 24th: 99.67% 
Heritage Auctions. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online on January 28th: 99.16% 
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 1/19 on January 26th: 98.35% 
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 1/10 on January 21st: 97.22% 
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 1/10 on January 20th: 96.72% 
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps, Documents on January 29th: 92.81% 
Potter and Potter Auctions. Vintage Posters on January 25th: 92.33% 
Case Antiques, Inc.. Winter Auction on January 26th: 91.40% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on January 25th: 88.00% 
Chorley's. Spetchley Park - The Attic Sale - Books on January 28th: 87.12% 
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 1/17 on January 24th: 85.37% 
Grays Auctioneers. Fine Art - Prints on January 29th: 85.19% 
Freemans. Books and Manuscripts on January 30th: 85.02% 
Forum Auctions. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper on January 30th: 83.66% 
OSENAT. Automobilia - Books and Prints on January 25th: 81.02% 
Chiswick Auctions. Printed Books and Manuscripts on January 28th: 80.85% 

 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Sothebys John Hancock, manuscript letter signed, announcing the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, 6 July 1776 on January 27th Actual price: USD $1,040,000.
  2. Arader Galleries [World Map] Cosmographia Universalis ab Orontio olim descripta. on January 25th Actual price: USD $378,200.
  3. Sothebys The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles...London: 1627 on January 27th Actual price: USD $275,000.
  4. Arader Galleries [World Map] Universalior cogniti orbis tabula ex recentibus confecta observationi (A Universal Map of the Known World, Constructed by Means of Recent Observations) on January 25th Actual price: USD $268,400.
  5. Sothebys Autograph letter signed, to Joshua Reed Giddings, 21 May 1860 on January 27th Actual price: USD $175,000.
  6. Arader Galleries Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. - Parergon in quo Veteris Geographiae aliquot tabulae. - Nomenclator Ptolemaicus. on January 25th Actual price: USD $173,240.
  7. Sothebys AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN (PLATE CCCXI) on January 26th Actual price: USD $137,500.
  8. Sothebys Autograph manuscript fragment from his undelivered first Inaugural Address on January 27th Actual price: USD $137,500.
  9. Arader Galleries Iceland or Jer Falcon, Plate 366. on January 25th Actual price: USD $134,200.
  10. Sothebys GREAT BLUE HERON (PLATE CCXI) on January 26th Actual price: USD $118,750.
  11. Heritage Auctions 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 PSA NM 7. on January 30th Actual price: USD $111,000.
  12. Arader Galleries [Americas Map] Il Disegno Del Discoperto Della Nova Franza, il quale s'e hauuto ultimamente dalla nouissima nauigatione de' Franzesi in quel luogo. on January 25th Actual price: USD $103,700.
  13. Sothebys Manuscript letter signed, to the Citizens of New York, [26-27 November 1783] on January 27th Actual price: USD $100,000.
  14. Arader Galleries [World Map] . Untitled double-hemisphere map constructed on a polar projections, with each hemisphere cut into thirty-six gores, in the manner of printed globes. on January 25th Actual price: USD $91,500.
  15. Arader Galleries Common American Swan, Plate 411. on January 25th Actual price: USD $85,400.
  16. Sothebys The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke. Wilmington: Printed by James Adams, 1784 on January 27th Actual price: USD $68,750.
  17. Arader Galleries Reddish Egret or Purple Heron, Plate 256. on January 25th Actual price: USD $68,320.
  18. Arader Galleries NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORTFOLIO; HUNTING SCENES AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND PRAIRIES OF AMERICA. on January 25th Actual price: USD $67,100.
  19. Arader Galleries A New Mapp of the Whole World. on January 25th Actual price: USD $66,040.
  20. Sothebys SNOWY OWL (PLATE CXXI) on January 26th Actual price: USD $62,500.
  21. Sothebys HOOPING CRANE (PLATE CCXXVI) on January 26th Actual price: USD $62,500.
  22. Freemans American White Pelican on January 30th Actual price: USD $62,500.
  23. Sothebys New-York: Hugh Gaine, ca. 1763–66 on January 27th Actual price: USD $62,500.
  24. Sothebys One autograph letter signed & 3 letters signed to General Alexander McDougall, September 1777 on January 27th Actual price: USD $62,500.
  25. Sothebys Six Nations document signed with the holograph totems of fourteen chiefs of the Six Nations, [Lancaster?], 28 July 1769 on January 27th Actual price: USD $62,500.



35 total sales reported this week:

Heritage Auctions. The 1952 Topps & 1953 Topps PSA Set Registry Auction on January 30th: 99.87%
Forum Auctions. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper on January 30th: 83.66%
Forum Auctions. Online Only - Select and Modern and Contemporary Editions and Works on Paper on January 28th: 45.16%
Rossini. Lithographs, Engravings on January 30th: 51.54%
Morton Subastas. Graphic Work and Photography on January 30th: 39.92%
Freemans. The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer - Part III on January 30th: 71.92%
Freemans. Books and Manuscripts on January 30th: 85.02%
Winner's Auctions Ltd. Chabad, Seforim, Hassidut, Glosses & Signatures, Postcards and Photo's, Holocaust and Antisemitism, on January 28th: 73.09%
Grays Auctioneers. Fine Art - Prints on January 29th: 85.19%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps, Documents on January 29th: 92.81%
Heritage Auctions. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online on January 28th: 99.16%
Morton Subastas. Book Auction of Explorers, Travelers, Maps, Views, Science and Religion on January 28th: 45.22%
Chorley's. Spetchley Park - The Attic Sale - Books on January 28th: 87.12%
Chiswick Auctions. Autographs and Memorabilia on January 28th: 57.19%
Chiswick Auctions. Printed Books and Manuscripts on January 28th: 80.85%
Bubb Kuyper. Books on November 29th: 70.44%
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly on January 28th: 100.00%
Potter and Potter Auctions. Vintage Posters on January 25th: 92.33%
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates. Antiquarian Books on January 24th: 99.67%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on January 28th: 75.25%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 1/19 on January 26th: 98.35%
Heritage Auctions. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 1/12 on January 26th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online on January 27th: 99.91%
Sothebys. Important Americana on January 26th: 67.86%
Sothebys. Fine Manuscripts and Printed Americana on January 27th: 72.78%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on January 25th: 88.00%
OSENAT. Automobilia - Books and Prints on January 25th: 81.02%
Leland Little Auctions. the Winter Gallery Auction on January 25th: 100.00%
Arader Galleries. Fine Art - Prints on January 25th: 63.16%
Case Antiques, Inc.. Winter Auction on January 26th: 91.40%
Eldreds. Annual "Cabin Fever" Auction on January 25th: 72.94%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 1/17 on January 24th: 85.37%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 1/10 on January 21st: 97.22%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 1/10 on January 20th: 96.72%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 1/10 on January 19th: 79.55%

 


For the week ahead 24 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Feb. 3rd
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 60 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 1/24. 51 lots

Tue. Feb. 4th
Christies. Paris. Paul Distribats - Avant Garde Library. 276 lots
Doyle New York. New York. Sporting & Travel Books From the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson - bidstart 1/23. 350 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 1/24. 42 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 1/28. 155 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. US Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 1/28. 686 lots

Wed. Feb. 5th
RR Auction. Amherst. Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction - online bidstart 1/24. 887 lots

Thu. Feb. 6th
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Pasadena Book Fair. 168 lots
Ader. PARIS. Letters and Autograph Manuscripts. 413 lots

Fri. Feb. 7th
Brunk Auctions. Asheville, NC . Emporium Auction. 32 lots
Eldreds. East Dennis,. Winter Market Auction. 59 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 1/31. 164 lots

Sat. Feb. 8th
Michaans Auctions. Alameda, CA . February Gallery Auction. 25 lots
Neal Auction Company. New Orleans. Important Winter Estates Auction. 74 lots
Potter and Potter Auctions. Chicago. Disney. 25 lots
Rachel Davis Fine Arts. Cleveland. Works on Paper - Prints. 433 lots
Artcurial. Paris. Racing, Flying and Yachting. 40 lots
Brunk Auctions. Asheville, NC . Premier Auction - Prints, Books. 12 lots
North American Auction Company. Bozeman. February Collectors Sale. 107 lots
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper. 200 lots

Sun. Feb. 9th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 1/26. 177 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 1/31. 55 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
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.