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2019: We are off to the races

For the week ended Saturday 5 January 6 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; one in Swedish krona, and 5 in US dollars.  The sell-through rate was as rare as a Gutenberg Bible:  95% while turnover was slim:  $627,597.30.  Even bibliophiles have to take some time away. 

 

Personally, I found the thin market attractive as I brought about 25 lots of mid-Hudson ephemera as well as a 20th century impressionist painting of Rondout. 

 

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


Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Comics - bidstart 12/23 on December 30th: 99.16% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Sports Collectibles Auction - online bidstart 12/2 on December 30th: 98.33% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 12/23 on December 30th: 98.17% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 29th: 97.42% 
Heritage AuctionsTuesday Internet Currency Auction - Internet bidstart 12/25 on January 1st: 97.07% 


6 total sales reported this week: 

Heritage AuctionsTuesday Internet Currency Auction - Internet bidstart 12/25 on January 1st: 97.07% 
Stockholms AuktionsverkRare Books, Maps and Manuscripts on December 7th: 68.72% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Sports Collectibles Auction - online bidstart 12/2 on December 30th: 98.33% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 12/23 on December 30th: 98.17% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Comics - bidstart 12/23 on December 30th: 99.16% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 29th: 97.42% 
 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Stockholms Auktionsverk First edition of Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae 1627 on December 7th Actual price: USD $47,163.
  2. Stockholms Auktionsverk Första upplagan av Wrights berömda fågelverk 1828 on December 7th Actual price: USD $20,213.
  3. Stockholms Auktionsverk 18th century composite atlas with 54 maps on December 7th Actual price: USD $10,780.
  4. Stockholms Auktionsverk Printed by Zainer in Augsburg 1471 on December 7th Actual price: USD $9,433.
  5. Heritage Auctions Amazing Fantasy #15 (Marvel, 1962) CGC Apparent VG 4.0 Extensive (B-5) Off-white pages. on December 30th Actual price: USD $9,000.
  6. Stockholms Auktionsverk Plinius Secundus Historia naturalis 1473 on December 7th Actual price: USD $8,759.
  7. Heritage Auctions Fantastic Four #1 (Marvel, 1961) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Cream to off-white pages. on December 30th Actual price: USD $7,800.
  8. Stockholms Auktionsverk Sparrman's Museum Carlsonianum with 80 plates 1786 on December 7th Actual price: USD $7,411.
  9. Stockholms Auktionsverk Noël's translations of Confucius and more on December 7th Actual price: USD $6,199.
  10. Heritage Auctions Showcase #4 The Flash (DC, 1956) CGC GD- 1.8 Cream to off-white pages. on December 30th Actual price: USD $6,000.
  11. Stockholms Auktionsverk First ed. Kepler's Astronomiae pars optica... 1604 on December 7th Actual price: USD $5,390.
  12. Stockholms Auktionsverk Hyllningsplansch till Erik Dahlberg sent 1600-tal on December 7th Actual price: USD $5,121.
  13. Stockholms Auktionsverk Jordglob av Anders Åkerman diameter 30 cm on December 7th Actual price: USD $4,851.
  14. Heritage Auctions Frank Godwin Connie Sunday Comic Strip Original Art (Ledger Syndicate, c. 1935-40). on December 30th Actual price: USD $4,560.
  15. Stockholms Auktionsverk Bromelius tidiga flora från 1694 on December 7th Actual price: USD $4,043.
  16. Stockholms Auktionsverk Renieris tabulae Mediceae 1639 on December 7th Actual price: USD $4,043.
  17. Stockholms Auktionsverk Lochmaier's Sermones de sanctis perutiles 1490-91 on December 7th Actual price: USD $3,369.
  18. Heritage Auctions Bill Rechin and Richard Thompson Smithsonian Museum "Chalk Talk" Sketches Original Art Group of 10 (undated). on December 30th Actual price: USD $3,360.
  19. Stockholms Auktionsverk Darwin's On the Origin of Species 3rd ed. 1861 on December 7th Actual price: USD $3,234.
  20. Heritage Auctions 1989 Perez-Steele "Celebration" Complete Set (45) - Includes 40 Signed Cards! on December 30th Actual price: USD $3,000.
  21. Stockholms Auktionsverk Manuscript leaf 14th c. Saint-Jacques' bible on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,965.
  22. Stockholms Auktionsverk Dagbok från Vegaexpeditionen 1878 on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,965.
  23. Stockholms Auktionsverk Henri Matisse Verve 1958 on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,965.
  24. Stockholms Auktionsverk Russian school atlas 1790 part I on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,830.
  25. Stockholms Auktionsverk Northcote mezzotinta engraving A Tyger 1790 on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,695.



For the week ahead 15 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jan. 7th
Cowans Auctions. Cincinnati. Historic Photography: Timed Auction - Internet bidstart 12/20. 237 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 83 lots

Tue. Jan. 8th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 1/1. 204 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - Internet bidstart 1/1. 280 lots

Wed. Jan. 9th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando and Dallas. 2924 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando and Dallas. 1391 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. January Auction - Featuring Art and Animation - Online bidstart 12/14. 987 lots
Trafford Books. Manchester. Stamps & postal history, Photographs, Books, Postcards, and Ephemera.. 252 lots

Thu. Jan. 10th
Forum Auctions. London. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper.
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the Glenn Todd Collection of Arion Press. 433 lots

Sat. Jan. 12th
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper.
North American Auction Company. Bozeman. Old West and Firearms Sale: Prints, Books. 90 lots

Sun. Jan. 13th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles Auction - online bidstart 12/16/18. 235 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 1/6.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 1/6.

Bruce McKinney

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  • 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
  • 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.