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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: 

SothebysFine Manuscripts and Printed Americana on January 27th: $3,208,750 
Arader GalleriesFine Art - Prints on January 25th: $2,618,047 
Bubb KuyperBooks 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 AuctionsPrinted Books, Maps, Documents on January 29th: 145.09% 
Chorley'sSpetchley Park - The Attic Sale - Books on January 28th: 137.72% 
Grays AuctioneersFine Art - Prints on January 29th: 131.04% 
Tessier & Sarrou and AssociatesAntiquarian 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 AuctionsWorld Currency Weekly on January 28th: 100.00% 
Leland Little Auctionsthe Winter Gallery Auction on January 25th: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsSports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 1/12 on January 26th: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsComics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online on January 27th: 99.91% 
Heritage AuctionsThe 1952 Topps & 1953 Topps PSA Set Registry Auction on January 30th: 99.87% 
Tessier & Sarrou and AssociatesAntiquarian Books on January 24th: 99.67% 
Heritage AuctionsComics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online on January 28th: 99.16% 
Heritage AuctionsMovie 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 AuctionsPrinted Books, Maps, Documents on January 29th: 92.81% 
Potter and Potter AuctionsVintage Posters on January 25th: 92.33% 
Case Antiques, Inc.Winter Auction on January 26th: 91.40% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on January 25th: 88.00% 
Chorley'sSpetchley 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 AuctioneersFine Art - Prints on January 29th: 85.19% 
FreemansBooks and Manuscripts on January 30th: 85.02% 
Forum AuctionsOnline Sale: Books and Works on Paper on January 30th: 83.66% 
OSENATAutomobilia - Books and Prints on January 25th: 81.02% 
Chiswick AuctionsPrinted 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

  • 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