• High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Book Press 10 1/2× 15 1/4" Platen , 2 1/2" Daylight.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: The Tubbs Mfg Co. wooden-type cabinet 27” w by 37” h by 22” deep.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: G.P.Gordon printing press 7” by 11” with treadle. Needs rollers, trucks, and grippers. Missing roller spring.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wood Type 1 1/4” tall.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Triangles.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Page & Co wood type 1 1/4” tall 1/4” wide.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Awt 578 type hi gauge.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Cents and Pound Signs.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wooden type cabinet 27” w by 19” d by 38” h.
  • ALDE, Dec. 11: ALBINUS (BERNHARD SIEGFIED). Tabulæ Sceleti et Musculorum corporis humanum, Londres, 1749. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BIDLOO (GOVARD). Anatomia humani corporis. Centum et quinque tabulis per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse..., Amsterdam, 1685.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BOURGERY (JEAN-MARC) – JACOB (NICOLAS-HENRI). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire, Paris, 1832. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCANTONIO ET FLORIANO). Icones anatomicae, Venice, 1801-14. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CARSWELL (ROBERT). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, London, 1838. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate, Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ESTIENNE (CHARLES). De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Paris, 1545. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: GAMELIN (JACQUES). Nouveau Recueil d'Ostéologie et de Myologie dessiné d'après nature... pour l’utilité des sciences et des arts, divisé en deux parties, Toulouse, 1779. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ROESSLIN (EUCHER). Des divers travaux et enfantemens des femmes et par quel moyen l'on doit survenir aux accidens…, Paris, 1536. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: RUYSCH (FREDERICK). Thesaurus anatomicus - Anatomisch Cabinet, Amsterdam, 1701-1714. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VALVERDE (JUAN DE). Anatome corporis humani. Nunc primum a Michaele Michaele Columbo latine reddita, et additis novis aliquot tabulis exornata, Venetiis, 1589. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VESALIUS (ANDREAS). De humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem, Venetiis, 1568. €3,000 to €4,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
  • Doyle, Dec. 5: Minas Avetisian (1928-1975). Rest, 1973. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973). Yawning Tiger, conceived 1917. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007). Full-Blown Red and White Roses in a Glass Vase, 1982. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). L’ATELIER DE CANNES (Bloch 794; Mourlot 279). The cover for Ces Peintres Nos Amis, vol. II. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012). THE BEACH AT CANNES, 1979. $1,200 to $1,800.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Richard Avendon, the suite of eleven signed portraits from the Avedon/Paris portfolio. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Flowers in Vase, 1985. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Nude, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Juniper, High Sierra, 1937.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven J. Levn (b. 1964). Plumage II, 2011. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven Meisel (b. 1954). Madonna, Miami, (from Sex), 1992. $6,000 to $9,000.

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Rare Book Hub: 21 Auctions Archived, another 20 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Friday, 1st January 2021, 21 auctions were archived to Rare Book Hub’s Transactions+ Database; 6 denominated in euros, 1 in British pounds, and 14 in US dollars.

 

Turnover was $4,983,139 as 90% of all lots offered sold.  Four thousand two hundred and sixty-seven were offered and 3,850 changed hands.  The strength in the auction market has been remarkable.  Covid-19 leaves us uncertain but for those who live and breath rare books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera we are living in the golden age.  There’s been nothing like this before.

 

Best wishes for 2021!

 

1 auction saw total proceeds reach a million dollars [it's a late report]: 

ChristiesClassic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century on July 28th: $3,457,331 

 


3 auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered in the sale: 

ChristiesClassic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century on July 28th: 223.96% 
Nadeau's Auction GalleryNew Year's Day Auction on January 1st: 144.69% 
Heritage AuctionsWorld Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 108.73% 


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

ChristiesClassic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century on July 28th: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsSports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 12/13 on December 27th: 99.59% 
Heritage AuctionsComics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online - bidstart 12/20 on December 28th: 99.25% 
Heritage AuctionsWorld Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 99.25% 
Heritage AuctionsUS Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 98.45% 
Leland Little AuctionsNew Years Day Sale on January 1st: 97.83% 
Heritage AuctionsMovie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 12/20 on December 27th: 97.25% 
Nadeau's Auction GalleryNew Year's Day Auction on January 1st: 96.43% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 26th: 96.00% 
Heritage AuctionsThe Conway Collection of Error Notes, Part I Currency Online Auction on December 30th: 95.65% 
William H. Bunch Auctions and AppraisalsEclectic Variety on December 29th: 93.33% 
Stephenson's Auctioneers & AppraisersRock Concert Posters Session 2. From The Estate of Perry Pfeffer, founder of Postercade. on January 1st: 93.10% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - bidstart 12/11 on December 22nd: 89.58% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 12/11 on December 23rd: 86.67% 
William H. Bunch Auctions and AppraisalsOnline Only Variety Auction on December 28th: 85.71% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - bidstart 12/11 on December 21st: 84.44% 

 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Christies Master of the Monypenny Breviary and associates The Almanac Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Bourges, c. 1490s] on July 28th Actual price: USD $2,228,498.
  2. Christies Joachim Wtewael (Utrecht 1566-1638) The Dutch maiden leading the Prince of Orange to battle on July 28th Actual price: USD $769,472.
  3. Christies Master of Francois de Rohan (active c.1525-1546) The Prayerbook of Mary Queen of Scots, use of Fontevraud, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1535-1540 (after 1534)] on July 28th Actual price: USD $425,208.
  4. Christies Giovanni di Paolo (Siena c.1399-1482) Easter Lamb, in a historiated initial "V" on a leaf from an illuminated Sequentiary on vellum [Siena, c.1435-40] on July 28th Actual price: USD $34,153.
  5. Soler Y Llach LIBROS DE ESTATUTOS DE LA ORDEN DEL CÍSTER. on December 22nd Actual price: USD $17,634.
  6. Heritage Auctions Loose Cylinder Error Double Face Printing Fr. 2027-B $10 1985 Federal Reserve Note. PMG About Uncirculated 55 EPQ. on December 30th Actual price: USD $13,200.
  7. Soler Y Llach ORATIO DOMINICA IN CLV LINGUAS VERSO ET EXOTICIS CHARACTERIBUS PLERUMQUE EXPRESSA on December 22nd Actual price: USD $11,756.
  8. Soler Y Llach IN PRIMUM AVICENNE CANONEM EXPOSITIO CUM QUESTIONIBUS EIUSDEM AB INDICE DICTI CUIUS Q[EM] IN MARGINIBUS APPOSITI. HUIC ETIAM NOUE IMPRESSINI SCITO ADDITAM FORE EXPOSITIONEM PRECLARI JACOBI... on December 22nd Actual price: USD $11,756.
  9. One Of A Kind Collectibles Thomas Jefferson (wants to bring his private French chef to Monticello ) on December 17th Actual price: USD $10,950.
  10. Heritage Auctions Showcase #4 The Flash (DC, 1956) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Cream to off-white pages. on December 28th Actual price: USD $10,500.
  11. Soler Y Llach BOETII VIRI CELEBERRIMI DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIE LIBER CUM OPTIMO CO[M]MENTO BEATI THOME COLONIA. on December 22nd Actual price: USD $10,287.
  12. Soler Y Llach SEDULII PASCHALE CUM COMMENTO ANTONII NEBRISSENSIS. on December 22nd Actual price: USD $9,552.
  13. Heritage Auctions The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (Marvel, 1963) CGC VG+ 4.5 Off-white to white pages. on December 28th Actual price: USD $9,000.
  14. Heritage Auctions GoldenEye 007 - Wata 9.2 A++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1997 USA. on December 28th Actual price: USD $8,700.
  15. Heritage Auctions Bruce Springsteen by Annie Leibovitz (1984). Very Fine. Signed Framed Photo (Approximately 18" X 22"). Rock and Roll. on December 27th Actual price: USD $7,800.
  16. Soler Y Llach COMENCIA LA VITA DEL FLORIOSO SANCTO HIERONIMO DOCTORE EXCELLENTISSIMO. on December 22nd Actual price: USD $7,053.
  17. Catawiki B. V. Mechanica: sive, de Motu, Tractatus Geometricus on December 21st Actual price: USD $6,664.
  18. Catawiki B. V. Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae commentarii, ubi quam plurima loca on December 22nd Actual price: USD $6,658.
  19. Soler Y Llach RERUM A FERNANDO ET ELISABE HISPANIA[RUM] FELICISSIMIS REGIBUS GESTARU[M] DECADES DUAE, NECNO[N] BELLI VAVARIE[N]SIS LIBRI DUO, NU[N]C SECU[N]DO EDITI... on December 22nd Actual price: USD $6,613.
  20. Heritage Auctions The Avengers #1 (Marvel, 1963) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white pages. on December 28th Actual price: USD $6,600.
  21. Stephenson's Auctioneers & Appraisers Original Woodstock Music Festival concert poster on January 1st Actual price: USD $6,250.
  22. Soler Y Llach EXPLICATION DES PLANCHES COMPOSANT L´ATLAS DES VOYAGES D´ALI BEY on December 22nd Actual price: USD $6,172.
  23. Nadeau's Auction Gallery Love, from "Book of Love", 1996 on January 1st Actual price: USD $6,150.
  24. Heritage Auctions Fantastic Four #5 (Marvel, 1962) CBCS VG- 3.5 Cream to off-white pages. on December 28th Actual price: USD $5,640.
  25. Nadeau's Auction Gallery Botanical Celeberrimo Eystettensis, campanula minor sylvestris flore caeruleo consolida regalis arvensis flore on January 1st Actual price: USD $5,535.

 


21 total sales reported this week:

Stephenson's Auctioneers & Appraisers. Rock Concert Posters Session 2. From The Estate of Perry Pfeffer, founder of Postercade. on January 1st: 93.10%
Nadeau's Auction Gallery. New Year's Day Auction on January 1st: 96.43%
Leland Little Auctions. New Years Day Sale on January 1st: 97.83%
Christies. Classic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century on July 28th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. The Conway Collection of Error Notes, Part I Currency Online Auction on December 30th: 95.65%
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals. Eclectic Variety on December 29th: 93.33%
Heritage Auctions. US Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 98.45%
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 99.25%
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals. Online Only Variety Auction on December 28th: 85.71%
Soler Y Llach. Rare and Valuable Books on December 22nd: 24.86%
Heritage Auctions. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 12/13 on December 27th: 99.59%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 12/20 on December 27th: 97.25%
Heritage Auctions. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online - bidstart 12/20 on December 28th: 99.25%
One Of A Kind Collectibles. Rare Autographs and Books on December 17th: 79.84%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 12/18 on December 25th: 79.35%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 12/11 on December 23rd: 86.67%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - bidstart 12/11 on December 22nd: 89.58%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - bidstart 12/11 on December 21st: 84.44%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 12/11 on December 20th: 77.50%
Kedem Auctions Ltd.. Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture on December 22nd: 77.72%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 26th: 96.00%


For the week ahead 20 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jan. 4th
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 85 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - bidstart 12/25. 88 lots

Tue. Jan. 5th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. US Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 12/29. 557 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 12/29. 152 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - bidstart 12/25. 38 lots

Wed. Jan. 6th
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Stamps and Postcards. 131 lots
University Archives. Westport. Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, and Books. 440 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 12/25. 114 lots
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. Online Only Auction. 57 lots

Thu. Jan. 7th
Forum Auctions. London. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper. 266 lots
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Fine Literature - Science Fiction and Mystery. 455 lots

Fri. Jan. 8th
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Chicago. Chicago Collections. 26 lots
Eldreds. East Dennis,. Online Only: Winter Market. 25 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 1/1. 67 lots

Sat. Jan. 9th
Guernseys. New York, NY. Collector's Odyssey - Online. 240 lots
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper. 200 lots

Sun. Jan. 10th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online - bidstart 1/3.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 12/27. 251 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 1/3.
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 1/1. 32 lots

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 8,000
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 55
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    November 26st 2024
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€
    Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€
    Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€
    Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€
    Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€
  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: RAND, AYN. Single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her influential final novel Atlas Shrugged. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Ernest Hemingway’s first book with interesting provenance. Three Stories & Ten Poems. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Hemingway’s second book, one of 170 copies. In Our Time. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A finely colored example of Visscher’s double hemisphere world map, with a figured border. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Antonio Ordóñez's “Suit of Lights” owned by Ernest Hemingway. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House construction. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: The fourth edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: The original typed manuscript for Chandler’s only opera. The Princess and the Pedlar: An Entirely Original Comic Opera. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A superb copy of Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis from Longleat House. $5,000 to $8,000.