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No Sale Number Auction House Sale Name Date of Auction Archived Date Total Lots Lots Sold % Lots Sold CURR Exch. Rate Low Est. Lots Sold High Est. Lots Sold High Est. All Lots Total Sales Total Sales In $ % Total Sales / High Est.
1 #757 Dominic Winter Book Auctions Fine Art, etc. - Old Master Prints July 30, 2020 July 31, 2020 133 103 77.44% GBP 1.256 22,620.00 34,050.00 45,500.00 55,602.00 72,765.29 122.20%
2 #18887 Christies Valuable Books and Manuscripts - bidstart 7/9 July 30, 2020 July 31, 2020 201 133 66.17% USD 1.0 817,500.00 1,217,000.00 2,434,400.00 1,530,000.00 1,530,000.00 62.85%
3 #2166 Forum Auctions Online only: Books and Works on Paper July 30, 2020 July 31, 2020 296 263 88.85% GBP 1.256 44,460.00 63,410.00 75,540.00 91,344.50 119,540.96 120.92%
4 #18857 Christies Contemporary Edition - Online bidstart 7/16 July 30, 2020 July 31, 2020 134 118 88.06% USD 1.0 554,400.00 822,500.00 910,000.00 1,028,000.00 1,028,000.00 112.97%
5 #2036 PBA Galleries Literature & Books in All Fields: Timed Online Auction - No Reserve - bidstart 7/20 July 30, 2020 July 31, 2020 201 188 93.53% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 11,970.00 11,970.00
6 #73020 Leland Little Auctions The Mid-Summer Estates Auction - Prints July 30, 2020 July 31, 2020 28 28 100.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 8,673.00 8,673.00
7 #2543 Swann Galleries Fine Books and Manuscripts July 30, 2020 July 31, 2020 451 351 77.83% USD 1.0 435,000.00 635,600.00 803,050.00 736,799.00 736,799.00 91.75%
8 #749 Dominic Winter Book Auctions Travel, Atlases and Maps, Autographs and Documents July 29, 2020 July 31, 2020 428 405 94.63% GBP 1.256 120,950.00 180,650.00 216,000.00 305,334.00 399,585.11 141.36%
9 #72920 Dirk Soulis Auctions Online Only: Railroad Travel Ephemera, China and Books July 29, 2020 July 31, 2020 335 329 98.21% USD 1.0 18,450.00 71,550.00 73,050.00 54,940.60 54,940.60 75.21%
10 #72920 Rago Arts and Auctions Living Contemporary - Fine Art Prints July 29, 2020 July 30, 2020 41 29 70.73% USD 1.0 32,300.00 49,700.00 79,500.00 58,990.00 58,990.00 74.20%
11 #72920 Purcell Auctioneers Auction Of Irish Interest Books, Maps, Posters, Interesting Ephemera Etc. To Include An Entire Collection Of Irish Historical Interest Books from the Late Peter O'Keeffe July 29, 2020 July 30, 2020 614 515 83.88% EUR 1.13 25,465.00 41,216.00 56,953.00 47,372.40 55,885.26 83.18%
12 #L20422 Sothebys The Library of a Greek Bibliophile: Travel Books, Aldines and an Important Qur’an July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 119 95 79.83% GBP 1.256 519,850.00 758,350.00 1,009,550.00 776,744.00 1,004,659.32 76.94%
13 #L20401 Sothebys Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 236 191 80.93% GBP 1.256 1,066,700.00 1,587,900.00 2,024,400.00 1,871,934.00 2,421,204.31 92.47%
14 #142030 Heritage Auctions US Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 7/21 July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 493 492 99.80% USD 1.0 81,645.00 117,005.00 117,105.00 101,896.40 101,896.40 87.01%
15 #282030 Heritage Auctions World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 7/21 July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 145 145 100.00% USD 1.0 24,108.00 36,162.00 36,162.00 36,388.00 36,388.00 100.62%
16 #72820 William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Eclectic Variety - Books, Prints July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 46 44 95.65% USD 1.0 7,890.00 14,980.00 15,580.00 10,661.30 10,661.30 68.43%
17 #N10514 Sothebys Legends, Landscapes, and Lovelies - bidstart 7/22 July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 58 58 100.00% USD 1.0 413,000.00 623,000.00 623,000.00 420,250.00 420,250.00 67.46%
18 #N10433 Sothebys Contemporary Prints and Multiples - bidstart 7/1/ July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 80 76 95.00% USD 1.0 757,900.00 1,178,900.00 1,260,900.00 1,555,250.00 1,555,250.00 123.34%
19 #2031 Bruun Rasmussen Prints July 27, 2020 July 29, 2020 79 73 92.41% DKK 0.165 315,000.00 378,500.00 406,500.00 547,437.50 86,215.42 134.67%
20 #72720 John McInnis Auctioneers The Billie and Dottie Haughton Online Auction July 27, 2020 July 28, 2020 26 24 92.31% USD 1.0 4,880.00 12,560.00 16,560.00 5,012.25 5,012.25 30.27%
21 #72720 Winter Associates Prints, Books July 27, 2020 July 28, 2020 11 10 90.91% USD 1.0 1,600.00 2,875.00 3,225.00 1,857.30 1,857.30 57.59%
22 #152030 Heritage Auctions Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 7/12 July 26, 2020 July 28, 2020 186 185 99.46% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 125,821.00 125,821.00
23 #72620 Carlsen Gallery Summer Potpourri - Prints July 26, 2020 July 27, 2020 26 26 100.00% USD 1.0 7,900.00 17,500.00 17,500.00 13,181.25 13,181.25 75.32%
24 #122030 Heritage Auctions Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online July 26, 2020 July 28, 2020 944 937 99.26% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 428,209.80 428,209.80
25 #7223 Heritage Auctions Movie Posters July 25, 2020 July 27, 2020 683 645 94.44% USD 1.0 1,294,150.00 2,585,600.00 2,726,600.00 2,349,548.80 2,349,548.80 86.17%
26 #72520 Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper July 25, 2020 July 27, 2020 200 186 93.00% USD 1.0 66,325.00 129,250.00 144,600.00 37,521.00 37,521.00 25.95%
27 #72520 Arader Galleries Summer Auction July 25, 2020 July 27, 2020 291 135 46.39% USD 1.0 1,091,850.00 1,640,300.00 2,370,800.00 1,095,276.00 1,095,276.00 46.20%
28 #72520 Michaans Auctions July Gallery Auction July 25, 2020 July 27, 2020 44 22 50.00% USD 1.0 20,300.00 33,300.00 65,500.00 22,374.00 22,374.00 34.16%
29 #1048 Morton Subastas Weekly Timed Auction - Books, Prints July 25, 2020 July 27, 2020 76 51 67.11% MXN 0.044 108,900.00 157,100.00 377,100.00 127,680.00 5,707.38 33.86%
30 #5338 Morton Subastas Photography July 25, 2020 July 27, 2020 101 27 26.73% MXN 0.044 239,000.00 366,000.00 1,667,000.00 291,000.00 13,007.98 17.46%
31 #1099 Potter and Potter Auctions The Magic Collection of Jim Rawlins - Part 4 July 25, 2020 July 27, 2020 186 182 97.85% USD 1.0 67,530.00 112,990.00 114,840.00 110,304.00 110,304.00 96.05%
32 #N10401 Sothebys Picasso Prints (and Ceramics) Online - bidstart 7/13 July 24, 2020 July 25, 2020 46 32 69.57% USD 1.0 313,500.00 464,500.00 806,500.00 413,875.00 413,875.00 51.32%
33 #72320 Profiles in History The Howard Hughes Auction July 23, 2020 July 25, 2020 152 144 94.74% USD 1.0 223,900.00 333,700.00 466,600.00 825,468.00 825,468.00 176.91%
34 #72320 Copley Fine Art Auctions The Sporting Sale July 23, 2020 July 25, 2020 42 42 100.00% USD 1.0 23,200.00 332,500.00 332,500.00 73,001.00 73,001.00 21.96%
35 #72220 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 3/20 July 22, 2020 July 27, 2020 140 119 85.00% EUR 1.13 7,320.00 9,510.00 14,650.00 12,077.20 14,109.28 82.44%
36 #72120 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 9/27 July 21, 2020 July 27, 2020 29 24 82.76% EUR 1.13 2,750.00 3,630.00 14,330.00 6,489.86 7,581.82 45.29%
37 #74 Zisska and Lacher Books, Works on Paper July 21, 2020 July 27, 2020 2448 1473 60.17% EUR 1.13 1,030,610.00 1,030,210.00 1,761,730.00 1,105,484.80 1,291,491.97 62.75%
38 #72020 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 1/24 July 20, 2020 July 27, 2020 50 42 84.00% EUR 1.13 3,025.00 4,025.00 7,775.00 8,721.09 10,188.51 112.17%
39 #71920 Catawiki B. V. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 7/10 July 19, 2020 July 27, 2020 35 33 94.29% EUR 1.13 2,130.00 2,620.00 3,520.00 5,308.30 6,201.44 150.80%
40 #62420 University Archives Manuscripts and Autographs - Books June 24, 2020 July 28, 2020 276 259 93.84% USD 1.0 253,490.00 304,325.00 412,325.00 347,570.50 347,570.50 84.30%
41 #61020 University Archives The Kennedys June 10, 2020 July 28, 2020 133 110 82.71% USD 1.0 125,140.00 152,660.00 253,360.00 160,686.00 167,811.00 63.42%
  • 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.
  • 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
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    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
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