Auction Update Review

Click slideshow for more
info.

Click slideshow for more
info.

WAU: 54 Auctions Archived, 33 More This Week

For the week ended Saturday 16 June 2018, 54 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; 17 denominated in euros, 5 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, and 31 in US dollars.  Turnover was $29,127,781 as 14,567 lots were offered and 10,534 sold for a 72% success rate.  These results include some auctions that were deferred from the previous week.

 

7 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: 


ChristiesThe Portland Audubon on June 14th: $9,650,000 
ChristiesFine Printed Books and Manuscripts - Including Americana on June 14th: $3,203,250 
Arenberg AuctionsBooks, Maps, Prints on May 26th: $2,141,626 
ChristiesArts of India - Prints, Illustrations, Manuscripts on June 12th: $1,791,344 
BonhamsFine Books and Manuscripts on June 12th: $1,410,900 
Arader GalleriesJune 2018 Auction on June 2nd: $1,117,151 
Heritage AuctionsDavid and Janice Frent Collection of Presidential and Political Americana on June 3rd: $1,069,808 


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

Grogan and CompanyThe Spring Auction - Prints and Books on June 3rd: 224.74% 
ChristiesSouth Asian Modern and Contemporary Art - Prints on June 12th: 137.27% 
Il PonteModern and Contemporary Art - Prints and Photographs on June 13th: 133.22% 
FerratonBooks on May 26th: 121.51% 
Arenberg AuctionsBooks, Maps, Prints on May 26th: 119.63% 
De Baecque and AssociesOld and Modern Books on May 31st: 118.13% 
Stair Auctioneers and AppraisersFine Auction - Books and Prints on June 2nd: 117.04% 
TajanPrints on May 29th: 107.61% 
ChristiesArts of India - Prints, Illustrations, Manuscripts on June 12th: 103.34% 
Potomack CompanyFine Art and Antiques - Books, Prints on June 2nd: 101.56% 


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

Grogan and CompanyThe Spring Auction - Prints and Books on June 3rd: 100.00% 
National Book AuctionsBooks on June 2nd: 100.00% 
William H. Bunch Auctions and AppraisalsMay Premier Auction - Books, Prints on May 15th: 100.00% 
Potomack CompanyFine Art and Antiques - Books, Prints on June 2nd: 100.00% 
ChristiesThe Portland Audubon on June 14th: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Comics - bidstart 6/3 on June 10th: 98.97% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on June 2nd: 98.89% 
Heritage AuctionsTuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 6/6 on June 12th: 98.57% 
Stair Auctioneers and AppraisersFine Auction - Books and Prints on June 2nd: 97.22% 
Alaska AuctionPrints and Books - online only on May 30th: 94.25% 
Aspire AuctionsPrints - Internet bidstart 5/25 on June 2nd: 94.03% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 6/3 on June 10th: 92.86% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 5/13 on June 10th: 92.18% 
ChristiesSouth Asian Modern and Contemporary Art - Prints on June 12th: 88.89% 
Heritage AuctionsDavid and Janice Frent Collection of Presidential and Political Americana on June 3rd: 88.36% 
Alaska AuctionPrints and Books on May 31st: 86.49% 
De Baecque and AssociesOld and Modern Books on May 31st: 84.17% 
Charlton Hall89th Anniversary Sale on June 1st: 83.33% 
Il PonteModern and Contemporary Art - Prints and Photographs on June 13th: 83.33% 
Swann GalleriesMaps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books on June 7th: 82.87% 
Forum AuctionsOnline Sale: Books and Works on Paper on June 7th: 81.65% 
FerratonBooks on May 26th: 81.52% 
Doyle New YorkPhotographs on June 14th: 81.08% 
Rago Arts and AuctionsCollectibles on June 9th: 80.56% 

 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Christies The Birds of America; from Original Drawings. London: Published by the Author, 1827-1838. on June 14th Actual price: USD $9,650,000.
  2. Arenberg Auctions [Atlas maior, sive cosmographia blaviana, qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur]. Geographia, quae est cosmographiae Blaviana pars prima [...]. on May 26th Actual price: USD $708,000.
  3. Christies The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. on June 14th Actual price: USD $348,500.
  4. Christies AN IMPORTANT ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT OF THE RAMAYANA OF TULSI DAS on June 12th Actual price: USD $282,625.
  5. Bonhams Autograph Musical Manuscript, 2 pp, oblong 4to (233 x 307 mm), [Vienna, early 1809,] ruled with 14-staves per page, on June 12th Actual price: USD $250,000.
  6. Bonhams Wetterkurzschlussel. [WKS. Weather short Signal Book]. Berlin: Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine, 1942. on June 12th Actual price: USD $225,000.
  7. Christies Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. on June 14th Actual price: USD $175,000.
  8. Bonhams The Tragedie of Julius Caesar [Extracted from the First Folio]. [London: Isaac Jaggard..., 1623.] on June 12th Actual price: USD $175,000.
  9. Arenberg Auctions Horae. Use of Rome. Latin (and a few French rubrics). on May 26th Actual price: USD $162,250.
  10. Tajan RECUEIL DE QUATRE–VINGT CINQ ESTAMPES ORIGINALES on May 29th Actual price: USD $145,730.
  11. Arenberg Auctions "Les avantures de Telemaque fils d'Ulÿsse &c.". on May 26th Actual price: USD $128,325.
  12. Christies IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CHANCERY DIVISION [...] BETWEEN JAMES PAUL McCARTNEY Plaintiff and JOHN ONO LENNON, GEORGE HARRISON[,] RICHARD STARKEY and APPLE CORPS LIMITED Defendants. on June 14th Actual price: USD $125,000.
  13. Christies BASKETBALL – An Olympic Gold Medal awarded for Basketball to George Louis Redlein (1885-1968), on June 14th Actual price: USD $125,000.
  14. Arader Galleries The First Part of the North American Pilot, for Newfoundland, Labradore, and the Gulf and River St. Laurence... [with] A New Edition, much enlarged, of the Second Part of the North American Pilot, for New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,... on June 2nd Actual price: USD $124,440.
  15. Christies BIBLE, in English – The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. on June 14th Actual price: USD $118,750.
  16. Arader Galleries Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent Thereto. on June 2nd Actual price: USD $115,900.
  17. Christies Autograph manuscript signed ("Ch. Darwin"), titled "The Descent of Man," being a working draft in 12 lines with autograph cancellations and emendations on June 14th Actual price: USD $112,500.
  18. Bonhams [Vita et Fabulae], Latin prose version of Romulus, Franciscus Rinucius Aretinus, translator, et Fabulae, Lib. I-IV, with the metrical version of Anonymous Neveletti (i.e., Aesopus Moralisatus). [Basel: Jacob Wolff von Pforzheim, c.1489.] on June 12th Actual price: USD $106,250.
  19. Arader Galleries Louisiana Heron, Plate 217. on June 2nd Actual price: USD $103,700.
  20. Christies AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE 'LARGE' GULER-BASOHLI BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES: KRISHNA ATTACKED BY DHENUKASURA AS HIS COMPANIONS GATHER FRUIT on June 12th Actual price: USD $99,750.
  21. Christies A PRINCE AND A PRINCESS HOLDING FIREWORKS on June 12th Actual price: USD $99,750.
  22. Arader Galleries Map of the State of Georgia, Prepared from actual Surveys and other Documents for Eleazer Early. on June 2nd Actual price: USD $97,600.
  23. Christies Autograph manuscript signed ("Thomas Paine"), "Letter of Thomas Paine to Camille Jourdan," on June 14th Actual price: USD $93,750.
  24. Heritage Auctions William Henry Harrison: A Spectacular Large 1840 Silk Campaign Flag. on June 3rd Actual price: USD $87,500.
  25. Christies El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. on June 14th Actual price: USD $81,250.



54 total sales reported this week:

Doyle New York. Photographs on June 14th: 81.08%
PBA Galleries. Rare Books and Manuscripts on June 14th: 68.78%
Rachel Davis Fine Arts. Prints and Drawings on June 9th: 77.32%
Rago Arts and Auctions. Collectibles on June 9th: 80.56%
Forum Auctions. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper on June 14th: 76.47%
Potomack Company. Postmaster General Collection & Other Estates Online Auction on June 7th: 49.15%
RR Auction. Fine Autographs & Artifacts - Internet bidstart 5/18 on June 13th: 56.32%
Il Ponte. Modern and Contemporary Art - Prints and Photographs on June 13th: 83.33%
ALDE. First Editions of the 19th and 20th Century on June 13th: 53.45%
Minerva Auctions Roma. Books, Autographs and Prints on June 12th: 47.33%
Bonhams. Fine Books and Manuscripts on June 12th: 62.94%
Christies. The Portland Audubon on June 14th: 100.00%
Christies. Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts - Including Americana on June 14th: 74.06%
Christies. Arts of India - Prints, Illustrations, Manuscripts on June 12th: 74.36%
Christies. South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art - Prints on June 12th: 88.89%
ALDE. Antiquarian and 19th Century Books - Natural History on June 11th: 55.92%
Michaans Auctions. Gallery Auction - Books, Prints, Photographs on June 9th: 69.05%
Forum Auctions. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper on June 7th: 81.65%
Grays Auctioneers. Fine Art - Prints on June 6th: 58.33%
Nye & Company Auctioneers. June Estate Treasures: Printes on June 7th: 41.38%
PIASA. Editions: Prints, Illustrated Books, Multiples on June 6th: 54.90%
Grogan and Company. The Spring Auction - Prints and Books on June 3rd: 100.00%
De Baecque and Associes. Old and Modern Books on May 31st: 84.17%
Rossini. Online Book Auction - Internet bidstart 5/17 on May 30th: 38.21%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on June 12th: 77.38%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on June 5th: 79.25%
Adams Amsterdam Auctions. Fine Art 17th-20th Century - Prints, Photographs, Autographs on June 12th: 79.67%
Ferraton. Books on May 26th: 81.52%
National Book Auctions. Books on June 2nd: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 6/6 on June 12th: 98.57%
Aspire Auctions. Prints - Internet bidstart 5/25 on June 2nd: 94.03%
Alaska Auction. Prints and Books on May 31st: 86.49%
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers. Fine Auction - Books and Prints on June 2nd: 97.22%
Alaska Auction. Prints and Books - online only on May 30th: 94.25%
Chiswick Auctions. Modern First Editions, Illustrated Books & Limited Editions on May 30th: 76.55%
Charlton Hall. 89th Anniversary Sale on June 1st: 83.33%
Dorotheum . Graphic Prints on June 5th: 64.10%
Dorotheum . Art Photography on June 5th: 53.00%
Dorotheum . Autographs, Manuscripts and Certificates on June 4th: 66.08%
Morton Subastas. Prints & Multiples from United States, Latin America and Europe on June 4th: 14.58%
Swann Galleries. Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books on June 7th: 82.87%
Swann Galleries. Illustration Art on June 5th: 77.25%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 6/3 on June 10th: 98.97%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 5/13 on June 10th: 92.18%
Potomack Company. Fine Art and Antiques - Books, Prints on June 2nd: 100.00%
Minerva Auctions Roma. Photographs on May 30th: 38.65%
Arader Galleries. June 2018 Auction on June 2nd: 57.71%
Heritage Auctions. David and Janice Frent Collection of Presidential and Political Americana on June 3rd: 88.36%
Arenberg Auctions. Books, Maps, Prints on May 26th: 63.83%
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals. May Premier Auction - Books, Prints on May 15th: 100.00%
Tajan. Prints on May 29th: 67.52%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on June 2nd: 98.89%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 6/3 on June 10th: 92.86%

 


For the week ahead 33 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jun. 18th
Aguttes. Neuilly-sur-Seine . 4 * Free Arts * Works and Correspondence. 323 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 97 lots

Tue. Jun. 19th
Lyon and Turnbull. Edinburgh. Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photography. 434 lots
Stockholms Auktionsverk. Stockholm. Books, Maps and Manuscripts. 296 lots
Aguttes. Neuilly-sur-Seine . 6 • LITERATURE • WRITERS & POETS OF XIX TH -XX TH BY AGUTTES. 116 lots
Drouot Estimations. Paris. Aristophil 5 • Literature • Writers and Poets of the 19th and 20th Centuries. 96 lots
Winner's Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem. Letters by A. Einstein and Other Illustrious Personalities. 342 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 6/12. 424 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Books and Manuscripts. 175 lots

Wed. Jun. 20th
Bonhams. London. Fine Books and Manuscripts. 296 lots
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Printed Books, Maps and Documents. 505 lots
Aguttes. Neuilly-sur-Seine . 8 • MUSIC • FROM LULLY TO STRAVINSKY BY AGUTTES. 176 lots
Ader. PARIS. Music - The Aristophil Collection. 151 lots
University Archives. Westport. Fabulous Autographs, Rare Books and Relics. 266 lots

Thu. Jun. 21st
Swann Galleries. New York. Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler III. 229 lots
Eldreds. East Dennis,. Fine and Decorative Arts - Prints, Books, etc..
RR Auction. Amherst. Sports - Internet Bidstart 6/14. 654 lots
Ader. PARIS. Photographs. 345 lots
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, PRIVATE PRESS, TOYS & GAMES, ORIGINAL ILLUSTR. 366 lots

Fri. Jun. 22nd
Aguttes. Neuilly-sur-Seine . Ancient Books and Manuscripts.
Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH. Berlin-Schoneberg. Modern Contemporary Art, Modern Photography. 431 lots
Cowans Auctions. Cincinnati. American History: Live Salesroom Auction. 502 lots
Nosbüsch & Stucke. Berlin. Rare Books. 619 lots
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. Treasures from Pacific Shores - Numismatic, Mining, Americana, etc..

Sat. Jun. 23rd
Nosbüsch & Stucke. Berlin. Rare Books - Day 2. 798 lots
John McInnis Auctioneers. Amesbury. Unreserved Estate Sale.
National Book Auctions. Ithaca. Books.
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana - Day 2.

Sun. Jun. 24th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 5/27. 223 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 6/17.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 6/17.
Carlsen Gallery. Greenville, NY. Summer Sizzler Sale - Books and Prints.
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana - Day 3.

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • 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.
  • 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