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(2024) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals Toronto 3 160 93 (58%) 47 (51%) 20 (22%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 2 53 36 (68%) 9 (25%) 12 (33%)
Addison and Sarova Social Circle 7 1372 1362 (99%) 0 (0%) 66 (5%)
Ader PARIS 31 5799 3754 (65%) 321 (9%) 2465 (66%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 6 1394 687 (49%) 106 (15%) 483 (70%)
Ahlers & Ogletree Atlanta 10 1460 1390 (95%) 409 (29%) 475 (34%)
ALDE Paris 18 3387 2293 (68%) 69 (3%) 1240 (54%)
Alex Cooper Towson 1 6 5 (83%) 2 (40%) 1 (20%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 6 4513 3254 (72%) 1370 (42%) 1190 (37%)
Angling Auctions Romsey 2 84 70 (83%) 24 (34%) 24 (34%)
Antikvariat Bryggen AS Skjeberg 10 1104 797 (72%) 110 (14%) 574 (72%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Constantia 8 2311 745 (32%) 495 (66%) 176 (24%)
Arader Galleries New York City 4 705 310 (44%) 215 (69%) 15 (5%)
Arenberg Auctions BRUSSEL 5 2547 2547 (100%) 846 (33%) 1152 (45%)
Artcurial Paris 14 1677 937 (56%) 58 (6%) 515 (55%)
Ashcroft and Moore Hatboro 2 43 23 (53%) 15 (65%) 0 (0%)
Aspire Art Auctions Illovo 4 210 93 (44%) 10 (11%) 19 (20%)
Aspire Auctions Pittsburgh 4 166 128 (77%) 45 (35%) 29 (23%)
Aste Bolaffi London 1 68 33 (49%) 17 (52%) 11 (33%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 7 2671 1772 (66%) 133 (8%) 1440 (81%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 4 645 487 (76%) 45 (9%) 204 (42%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 14 1476 1068 (72%) 184 (17%) 574 (54%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 6 594 485 (82%) 111 (23%) 310 (64%)
Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers Billinghurst, West Sussex 2 241 200 (83%) 54 (27%) 82 (41%)
Bertolami Fine Art Rome 8 1712 539 (31%) 323 (60%) 92 (17%)
Blackwell Auctions Clearwater 10 562 341 (61%) 202 (59%) 31 (9%)
Bogota Auction Bogota 7 1462 1035 (71%) 41 (4%) 828 (80%)
Bonhams Boston 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Bonhams Brockenhurst, Beaulieu, 2 400 378 (95%) 130 (34%) 154 (41%)
Bonhams Brussels 2 369 260 (70%) 28 (11%) 102 (39%)
Bonhams Chichester 2 89 73 (82%) 27 (37%) 27 (37%)
Bonhams Hong Kong 1 21 12 (57%) 4 (33%) 3 (25%)
Bonhams London 2 425 297 (70%) 3 (1%) 207 (70%)
Bonhams London, New Bond Street 18 2025 1487 (73%) 160 (11%) 771 (52%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 10 1210 856 (71%) 200 (23%) 341 (40%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 2 202 162 (80%) 19 (12%) 64 (40%)
Bonhams Marlborough 6 1170 981 (84%) 374 (38%) 364 (37%)
Bonhams New York 20 2498 1731 (69%) 441 (25%) 648 (37%)
Bonhams Paris 9 693 403 (58%) 66 (16%) 168 (42%)
Bonhams Sydney 1 17 17 (100%) 3 (18%) 12 (71%)
Britannic Auctions Phoenix 3 455 318 (70%) 97 (31%) 156 (49%)
Bruneau & Co. Cranston 3 1164 1157 (99%) 144 (12%) 649 (56%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 5 182 167 (92%) 42 (25%) 80 (48%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 36 1923 1541 (80%) 775 (50%) 580 (38%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 2 5811 3861 (66%) 0 (0%) 2517 (65%)
Bukowskis Stockholm 11 539 367 (68%) 121 (33%) 188 (51%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 3 1184 1054 (89%) 0 (0%) 1034 (98%)
Canada Book Auctions Limited Toronto 7 1301 844 (65%) 630 (75%) 31 (4%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 3 72 70 (97%) 22 (31%) 22 (31%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 4 256 248 (97%) 61 (25%) 156 (63%)
Catawiki B. V. LA Assen, 211 12994 9569 (74%) 3583 (37%) 5198 (54%)
Central Mass Auctions Boston, 2 262 260 (99%) 54 (21%) 65 (25%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 2 72 65 (90%) 16 (25%) 28 (43%)
Chiswick Auctions London 21 4694 2604 (55%) 638 (25%) 878 (34%)
Chorley's Gloucestershire 7 973 837 (86%) 154 (18%) 524 (63%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 2 866 518 (60%) 1 (0%) 295 (57%)
Christies London - King Street 10 1062 874 (82%) 135 (15%) 438 (50%)
Christies New York 26 2523 2155 (85%) 293 (14%) 1197 (56%)
Christies Paris 6 707 612 (87%) 129 (21%) 367 (60%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 12 870 563 (65%) 317 (56%) 111 (20%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 4 213 195 (92%) 66 (34%) 28 (14%)
Cotswold Auction Company Cheltenham 4 473 389 (82%) 49 (13%) 239 (61%)
Cotswold Auction Company Cirencester 5 283 235 (83%) 107 (46%) 62 (26%)
Damien Voglaire Brussels 6 2009 1627 (81%) 8 (0%) 972 (60%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 13 2783 2159 (78%) 120 (6%) 1292 (60%)
Desa Unicum Warszawa 3 311 63 (20%) 27 (43%) 9 (14%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 4 383 345 (90%) 105 (30%) 136 (39%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 19 5753 4924 (86%) 529 (11%) 2886 (59%)
Dorotheum Salzburg 1 37 21 (57%) 7 (33%) 10 (48%)
Dorotheum Linz 2 87 75 (86%) 11 (15%) 42 (56%)
Dorotheum Vienna 12 1764 1237 (70%) 92 (7%) 986 (80%)
Doyle New York New York 19 1784 1363 (76%) 389 (29%) 646 (47%)
Dreweatts Newbury 2 15 14 (93%) 6 (43%) 7 (50%)
Du Mouchelles Detroit 14 1052 961 (91%) 326 (34%) 343 (36%)
Duke's Dorchester 8 352 275 (78%) 62 (23%) 104 (38%)
Dunbar Sloane Wellington 6 1202 1048 (87%) 374 (36%) 302 (29%)
Early American Rancho Santa Fe 2 404 330 (82%) 171 (52%) 41 (12%)
EinZwei Prague 1 200 151 (76%) 0 (0%) 151 (100%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 20 957 742 (78%) 351 (47%) 217 (29%)
EV Stamps Richmond 11 2070 1693 (82%) 0 (0%) 1693 (100%)
Everard Auctions Savannah 8 494 272 (55%) 135 (50%) 86 (32%)
Fairhill Auction Elkton 7 3178 1677 (53%) 876 (52%) 312 (19%)
Finarte Milan 9 2010 1052 (52%) 141 (13%) 570 (54%)
Finarte Rome 10 3050 1156 (38%) 2 (0%) 364 (31%)
Fleischer's Auctions Columbus 5 818 786 (96%) 70 (9%) 527 (67%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 6 1611 1211 (75%) 265 (22%) 416 (34%)
Forum Auctions London 40 9377 7179 (77%) 1406 (20%) 3664 (51%)
Freemans Philadelphia 12 774 669 (86%) 174 (26%) 287 (43%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 17 6248 3220 (52%) 1351 (42%) 1869 (58%)
Gallery EinsZwei Prague 1 250 212 (85%) 0 (0%) 212 (100%)
Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers Columbus 1 24 24 (100%) 3 (13%) 11 (46%)
Genazym Monsey 2 191 187 (98%) 28 (15%) 107 (57%)
Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 14 1646 1121 (68%) 294 (26%) 569 (51%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 1 221 142 (64%) 99 (70%) 23 (16%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 14 2701 1973 (73%) 0 (0%) 1973 (100%)
Gorringes Lewes 7 814 690 (85%) 194 (28%) 310 (45%)
Grant Zahajko Auctions DAVENPORT 9 3298 3093 (94%) 1560 (50%) 969 (31%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 2 133 132 (99%) 3 (2%) 106 (80%)
Grogan and Company Boston 2 108 55 (51%) 2 (4%) 42 (76%)
Gros & Delettrez PARIS 1 145 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Guernseys New York, NY 2 35 13 (37%) 10 (77%) 1 (8%)
Hake's Auctions York 6 5642 5497 (97%) 2669 (49%) 458 (8%)
Hansons Etwall, Derbyshire 11 881 620 (70%) 195 (31%) 267 (43%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 500 193630 184765 (95%) 12410 (7%) 154911 (84%)
Holabird Western Americana Collections Reno 26 11192 8274 (74%) 6925 (84%) 464 (6%)
Il Ponte Milan (Italy) 7 1224 1164 (95%) 205 (18%) 806 (69%)
Il Ponte Milan 4 754 663 (88%) 2 (0%) 464 (70%)
International Autograph Auctions Europe SL Malaga 7 5425 4903 (90%) 318 (6%) 1967 (40%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 1 658 546 (83%) 0 (0%) 435 (80%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 2 82 81 (99%) 3 (4%) 71 (88%)
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Harrisonburg 13 1080 1038 (96%) 187 (18%) 614 (59%)
Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin GmbH Berlin 5 4619 1429 (31%) 508 (36%) 561 (39%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 20 1204 1149 (95%) 96 (8%) 980 (85%)
KC Auction Company Kansas City 2 279 279 (100%) 0 (0%) 279 (100%)
Kedem Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem 9 2348 1920 (82%) 39 (2%) 1846 (96%)
Kestenbaum and Company Brooklyn 5 828 506 (61%) 167 (33%) 159 (31%)
Ketterer Kunst Munich 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 1 345 184 (53%) 35 (19%) 133 (72%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 12 2697 2430 (90%) 745 (31%) 1188 (49%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 12 14034 6208 (44%) 2681 (43%) 2735 (44%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 6 3186 2251 (71%) 251 (11%) 1990 (88%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 11 1442 909 (63%) 129 (14%) 393 (43%)
L'Autographe Auctions London 2 1358 505 (37%) 356 (71%) 78 (15%)
Lang's Auction, Inc. Bouckville 2 56 41 (73%) 2 (5%) 31 (76%)
Lark Mason Associates New Braunfels 4 237 138 (58%) 72 (52%) 25 (18%)
Lark Mason Associates New York 1 63 56 (89%) 9 (16%) 39 (70%)
Lay's Auctioneers Cornwall 11 1965 1300 (66%) 425 (33%) 442 (34%)
Leland Little Auctions Hillsborough, NC 13 1020 1014 (99%) 0 (0%) 1014 (100%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 17 1874 1698 (91%) 371 (22%) 820 (48%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Cincinnati 4 1071 850 (79%) 299 (35%) 290 (34%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers New York 1 25 25 (100%) 1 (4%) 19 (76%)
Lion Heart Autographs New York, NY 1 209 143 (68%) 24 (17%) 83 (58%)
Litchfield County Auctions Litchfield 8 634 349 (55%) 197 (56%) 89 (26%)
Loon Estates Saint Paul 1 287 255 (89%) 186 (73%) 1 (0%)
Los Angeles Estate Auction Glendale 18 4742 3109 (66%) 2669 (86%) 97 (3%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 11 1769 1143 (65%) 69 (6%) 622 (54%)
Maison Bibelot Firenze 6 1179 865 (73%) 0 (0%) 591 (68%)
Mallams Oxford, 1 277 263 (95%) 23 (9%) 198 (75%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 2816 2021 (72%) 47 (2%) 1272 (63%)
Mennonite Life Lancaster 3 792 374 (47%) 0 (0%) 374 (100%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 9 414 328 (79%) 148 (45%) 94 (29%)
Michael Treloar Adelaide SA 1 64 19 (30%) 0 (0%) 3 (16%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 8 1137 805 (71%) 0 (0%) 805 (100%)
Morphy Auctions Denver 11 3077 2956 (96%) 852 (29%) 927 (31%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 57 6689 2473 (37%) 1336 (54%) 329 (13%)
Nadeau's Auction Gallery Windsor 12 779 647 (83%) 260 (40%) 210 (32%)
Nate D. Sanders Auctions Los Angeles 9 1463 466 (32%) 0 (0%) 466 (100%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 12 403 397 (99%) 133 (34%) 189 (48%)
New England Auctions Branford 5 249 246 (99%) 66 (27%) 113 (46%)
New England Book Auctions South Deerfield 24 4844 4373 (90%) 94 (2%) 4225 (97%)
North American Auction Company Bozeman 9 1008 610 (61%) 476 (78%) 48 (8%)
Northrow Gallery Auctions Ltd. Erin 3 57 57 (100%) 57 (100%) 0 (0%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 11 3796 1108 (29%) 470 (42%) 785 (71%)
Nye & Company Auctioneers Bloomfield 16 1120 659 (59%) 362 (55%) 126 (19%)
Old World Auctions Richmond 6 3110 2463 (79%) 1935 (79%) 323 (13%)
Olympia Auctions London 1 70 66 (94%) 30 (45%) 24 (36%)
One Of A Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 3 487 400 (82%) 0 (0%) 400 (100%)
One Source Auctions Canandaigua 15 2471 2180 (88%) 12 (1%) 2168 (99%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 6 321 236 (74%) 25 (11%) 150 (64%)
OSENAT PARIS 4 708 333 (47%) 17 (5%) 261 (78%)
OSENAT VERSAILLES 5 341 210 (62%) 35 (17%) 115 (55%)
Pandolfini Florence 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Pandolfini Milano 2 35 30 (86%) 19 (63%) 6 (20%)
PBA Galleries Berkeley 32 11195 8055 (72%) 3612 (45%) 1532 (19%)
Peter Arnold Prahran VIC 2 204 167 (82%) 0 (0%) 103 (62%)
PIASA Paris 6 89 60 (67%) 0 (0%) 44 (73%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 3 86 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Poster Auctions International, Inc. New York 5 1377 511 (37%) 112 (22%) 199 (39%)
PosterConnection Inc. Clayton 4 1549 871 (56%) 713 (82%) 70 (8%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 17 837 586 (70%) 273 (47%) 179 (31%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 22 8098 6209 (77%) 2394 (39%) 1879 (30%)
Propstore Hertfordshire 2 414 338 (82%) 0 (0%) 125 (37%)
Propstore Valencia 6 2551 2133 (84%) 557 (26%) 636 (30%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 11 4933 3655 (74%) 1340 (37%) 1206 (33%)
Quinn's Auction Galleries Falls Church 10 1477 1360 (92%) 257 (19%) 982 (72%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 8 1572 1384 (88%) 522 (38%) 317 (23%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Chicago 12 1619 1408 (87%) 479 (34%) 499 (35%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 14 2249 1714 (76%) 493 (29%) 558 (33%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Van Nuys, CA 5 1062 920 (87%) 314 (34%) 320 (35%)
Revere Auctions St. Paul 13 920 737 (80%) 334 (45%) 203 (28%)
Ripley Auctions Indianapolis 17 2623 1708 (65%) 742 (43%) 636 (37%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 14 3376 3207 (95%) 959 (30%) 1595 (50%)
Rossini Paris 28 6865 3072 (45%) 226 (7%) 1231 (40%)
RR Auction Amherst 21 8658 6031 (70%) 696 (12%) 2725 (45%)
Saffronart Mumbai 1 93 90 (97%) 0 (0%) 64 (71%)
Santa Fe Art Auction Santa Fe 6 802 601 (75%) 252 (42%) 180 (30%)
Sarasota Estate Auction Sarasota 9 1862 957 (51%) 613 (64%) 163 (17%)
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting Regina 6 614 439 (72%) 290 (66%) 101 (23%)
Schilb Antiquarian Columbia 16 1533 1524 (99%) 1491 (98%) 7 (0%)
Setdart BARCELONA 10 627 285 (45%) 160 (56%) 72 (25%)
Shapiro Auctioneers Chippendale 1 30 19 (63%) 1 (5%) 8 (42%)
Sloane Street Auctions London 4 150 86 (57%) 13 (15%) 41 (48%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 3 2099 397 (19%) 0 (0%) 397 (100%)
Sothebys Cologne 1 48 24 (50%) 4 (17%) 10 (42%)
Sothebys Hong Kong 3 47 37 (79%) 0 (0%) 18 (49%)
Sothebys London 15 1137 811 (71%) 149 (18%) 334 (41%)
Sothebys Milan 1 12 12 (100%) 3 (25%) 3 (25%)
Sothebys New York 27 1861 1509 (81%) 399 (26%) 590 (39%)
Sothebys Paris 6 397 356 (90%) 50 (14%) 213 (60%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 12 404 380 (94%) 136 (36%) 173 (46%)
Stephan Welz & Co. Constantia 7 462 246 (53%) 36 (15%) 83 (34%)
Stephenson's Auctioneers & Appraisers Southampton 2 248 189 (76%) 130 (69%) 23 (12%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Hamburg 1 49 49 (100%) 31 (63%) 18 (37%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 5 510 383 (75%) 83 (22%) 240 (63%)
Sunstone Auction House EUGENE 1 100 69 (69%) 0 (0%) 32 (46%)
Swann Galleries New York 25 6836 5048 (74%) 2003 (40%) 1502 (30%)
Sworders Essex 9 1708 1140 (67%) 112 (10%) 470 (41%)
Sydney Rare Book Auctions Ultimo 19 6743 4109 (61%) 2708 (66%) 683 (17%)
Tajan Paris 8 674 491 (73%) 46 (9%) 391 (80%)
Tennants Auctioneers Leyburn 11 626 539 (86%) 43 (8%) 332 (62%)
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Paris 22 8891 6990 (79%) 900 (13%) 5542 (79%)
The Book Merchant Jenkins West End 3 887 635 (72%) 271 (43%) 178 (28%)
The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust Brooklyn 1 20 20 (100%) 0 (0%) 20 (100%)
The Ross Art Group Inc Boca Raton 3 1131 322 (28%) 245 (76%) 10 (3%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 13 782 538 (69%) 282 (52%) 165 (31%)
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Carlisle 10 2481 2281 (92%) 658 (29%) 853 (37%)
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Edinburgh 1 28 22 (79%) 0 (0%) 22 (100%)
Tooveys West Sussex 11 1778 1439 (81%) 160 (11%) 819 (57%)
Toronto Book Auctions Toronto 1 364 226 (62%) 204 (90%) 4 (2%)
Trafford Books Manchester 7 1468 985 (67%) 313 (32%) 369 (37%)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Franklin 48 7289 6714 (92%) 5915 (88%) 120 (2%)
Turner Auctions & Appraisals South San Francisco 1 13 10 (77%) 5 (50%) 1 (10%)
University Archives Wilton 8 3542 2951 (83%) 1083 (37%) 1272 (43%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 4 2488 1480 (59%) 861 (58%) 619 (42%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 35 11469 3439 (30%) 316 (9%) 1680 (49%)
Vogt Auction San Antonio 17 1059 1052 (99%) 322 (31%) 376 (36%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 20 969 902 (93%) 369 (41%) 217 (24%)
William Parkinson Hinesburg 1 475 404 (85%) 0 (0%) 404 (100%)
Winner's Auctions Ltd Jerusalem 4 647 481 (74%) 248 (52%) 143 (30%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 8 726 696 (96%) 187 (27%) 236 (34%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 2 1665 623 (37%) 206 (33%) 285 (46%)
Zwiggelaar Auctions Amsterdam 5 2472 1889 (76%) 1 (0%) 978 (52%)
Total 2658 589346 459578 (78%) 97305 (21%) 276060 (60%)

(2023) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals Toronto 3 187 137 (73%) 69 (50%) 29 (21%)
Addison and Sarova Social Circle 8 2638 2616 (99%) 1 (0%) 140 (5%)
Ader PARIS 28 6668 4271 (64%) 525 (12%) 2529 (59%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 5 1288 838 (65%) 167 (20%) 523 (62%)
ALDE Paris 14 4170 2743 (66%) 98 (4%) 1748 (64%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 8 4238 3086 (73%) 1081 (35%) 1158 (38%)
Angling Auctions Romsey 2 62 53 (85%) 17 (32%) 13 (25%)
Antikvariat Bryggen AS Skjeberg 3 630 532 (84%) 114 (21%) 330 (62%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Constantia 8 3002 758 (25%) 487 (64%) 168 (22%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Lakeville 2 469 96 (20%) 76 (79%) 6 (6%)
Arader Galleries New York City 5 900 391 (43%) 306 (78%) 12 (3%)
Arenberg Auctions BRUSSEL 9 4232 3378 (80%) 686 (20%) 1627 (48%)
Artcurial Paris 14 2405 1661 (69%) 46 (3%) 1005 (61%)
Ashcroft and Moore Hatboro 1 48 24 (50%) 18 (75%) 3 (13%)
Aspire Art Auctions Illovo 5 280 148 (53%) 22 (15%) 43 (29%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 1 50 47 (94%) 16 (34%) 11 (23%)
Aspire Auctions Pittsburgh 4 232 222 (96%) 96 (43%) 47 (21%)
Aste Bolaffi Milan 3 1181 715 (61%) 0 (0%) 715 (100%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 6 2803 2094 (75%) 32 (2%) 1610 (77%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 3 724 559 (77%) 67 (12%) 215 (38%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 7 1201 831 (69%) 143 (17%) 360 (43%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 5 688 540 (78%) 105 (19%) 372 (69%)
Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers Billinghurst, West Sussex 2 338 269 (80%) 69 (26%) 120 (45%)
Bertolami Fine Art Rome 1 497 171 (34%) 0 (0%) 171 (100%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 15 2562 1559 (61%) 168 (11%) 902 (58%)
Blackwell Auctions Clearwater 6 512 469 (92%) 158 (34%) 46 (10%)
Bogota Auction Bogota 7 1481 978 (66%) 0 (0%) 825 (84%)
Bonhams Brussels 2 304 172 (57%) 6 (3%) 64 (37%)
Bonhams Dublin, 1 21 11 (52%) 0 (0%) 4 (36%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 1 56 54 (96%) 20 (37%) 23 (43%)
Bonhams Hong Kong 1 33 33 (100%) 33 (100%) 0 (0%)
Bonhams London 2 246 197 (80%) 11 (6%) 118 (60%)
Bonhams London, New Bond Street 22 2954 2267 (77%) 161 (7%) 1291 (57%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 6 1078 809 (75%) 151 (19%) 313 (39%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 3 379 306 (81%) 71 (23%) 155 (51%)
Bonhams Marlborough 7 1433 1223 (85%) 393 (32%) 495 (40%)
Bonhams New York 17 3178 2147 (68%) 466 (22%) 745 (35%)
Bonhams Paris 4 805 572 (71%) 37 (6%) 328 (57%)
Bonhams Sydney 1 48 29 (60%) 21 (72%) 3 (10%)
Bruneau & Co. Cranston 6 2282 2276 (100%) 282 (12%) 1292 (57%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 12 551 478 (87%) 175 (37%) 181 (38%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 50 3572 2657 (74%) 1312 (49%) 959 (36%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 2 10714 6681 (62%) 0 (0%) 4541 (68%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 3 2416 1949 (81%) 0 (0%) 1895 (97%)
Canada Book Auctions Limited Toronto 8 1179 624 (53%) 431 (69%) 83 (13%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 3 48 45 (94%) 15 (33%) 13 (29%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 3 296 278 (94%) 74 (27%) 160 (58%)
Catawiki B. V. LA Assen, 260 11153 8823 (79%) 2269 (26%) 5825 (66%)
Central Mass Auctions Boston, 2 132 127 (96%) 37 (29%) 22 (17%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 2 457 452 (99%) 83 (18%) 268 (59%)
Chiswick Auctions London 16 4845 3169 (65%) 628 (20%) 1164 (37%)
Chorley's Gloucestershire 5 604 475 (79%) 132 (28%) 237 (50%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 2 1156 740 (64%) 1 (0%) 402 (54%)
Christies London - King Street 14 2484 2022 (81%) 386 (19%) 898 (44%)
Christies New York 22 3018 2552 (85%) 420 (16%) 1297 (51%)
Christies Paris 6 836 704 (84%) 78 (11%) 409 (58%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 8 502 325 (65%) 178 (55%) 74 (23%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 3 182 160 (88%) 35 (22%) 22 (14%)
Cotswold Auction Company Cheltenham 3 336 244 (73%) 70 (29%) 90 (37%)
Cotswold Auction Company Cirencester 2 206 143 (69%) 28 (20%) 64 (45%)
Damien Voglaire Brussels 7 2761 2333 (85%) 35 (2%) 1474 (63%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 10 3148 2207 (70%) 183 (8%) 1370 (62%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 8 1006 968 (96%) 122 (13%) 751 (78%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 16 7027 6219 (89%) 699 (11%) 3771 (61%)
Dorotheum Linz 1 82 76 (93%) 5 (7%) 49 (64%)
Dorotheum Vienna 11 2603 2031 (78%) 109 (5%) 1795 (88%)
Doyle New York New York 13 2147 1804 (84%) 530 (29%) 779 (43%)
Dreweatts Newbury 1 333 211 (63%) 182 (86%) 9 (4%)
Du Mouchelles Detroit 15 990 832 (84%) 324 (39%) 245 (29%)
Duke's Dorchester 4 159 94 (59%) 14 (15%) 34 (36%)
Dunbar Sloane Wellington 2 785 650 (83%) 121 (19%) 398 (61%)
Early American Rancho Santa Fe 7 1201 986 (82%) 432 (44%) 270 (27%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 27 1318 956 (73%) 494 (52%) 237 (25%)
EV Stamps Richmond 11 2694 2234 (83%) 0 (0%) 2234 (100%)
Everard Auctions Savannah 1 410 365 (89%) 119 (33%) 173 (47%)
Fairhill Auction Elkton 7 2532 1461 (58%) 720 (49%) 306 (21%)
Finarte Milan 9 2237 1380 (62%) 267 (19%) 554 (40%)
Finarte Rome 11 4398 2464 (56%) 23 (1%) 1151 (47%)
Fleischer's Auctions Columbus 3 897 537 (60%) 130 (24%) 231 (43%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 4 3063 2319 (76%) 601 (26%) 937 (40%)
Forum Auctions London 48 13128 10575 (81%) 2305 (22%) 5271 (50%)
Freemans Philadelphia 8 959 893 (93%) 200 (22%) 417 (47%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 13 5954 1848 (31%) 861 (47%) 987 (53%)
Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers Columbus 5 293 261 (89%) 177 (68%) 32 (12%)
Genazym Monsey 3 216 214 (99%) 33 (15%) 117 (55%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 3 694 454 (65%) 282 (62%) 99 (22%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 11 2812 2250 (80%) 0 (0%) 2250 (100%)
Gorringes Lewes 7 656 594 (91%) 174 (29%) 283 (48%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 3 107 103 (96%) 26 (25%) 41 (40%)
Grogan and Company Boston 2 107 99 (93%) 22 (22%) 54 (55%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 1 39 37 (95%) 3 (8%) 24 (65%)
Guernseys New York, NY 1 24 6 (25%) 3 (50%) 0 (0%)
Hake's Auctions York 6 6772 6599 (97%) 2930 (44%) 992 (15%)
Hansons Etwall, Derbyshire 3 447 302 (68%) 108 (36%) 105 (35%)
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills 1 455 455 (100%) 0 (0%) 455 (100%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 518 223135 216661 (97%) 11856 (5%) 187150 (86%)
Holabird Western Americana Collections Reno 36 10850 7802 (72%) 6452 (83%) 374 (5%)
Il Ponte Milan (Italy) 2 502 469 (93%) 28 (6%) 350 (75%)
Il Ponte Milan 3 702 622 (89%) 0 (0%) 430 (69%)
Il Ponte Milan 4 798 761 (95%) 123 (16%) 549 (72%)
International Autograph Auctions Europe SL Malaga 11 5837 5051 (87%) 80 (2%) 1921 (38%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 1 695 567 (82%) 0 (0%) 451 (80%)
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Harrisonburg 9 689 663 (96%) 81 (12%) 443 (67%)
Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 3 3772 1377 (37%) 531 (39%) 513 (37%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 11 841 813 (97%) 128 (16%) 557 (69%)
Kedem Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem 22 4153 3553 (86%) 159 (4%) 3270 (92%)
Kestenbaum and Company Brooklyn 4 710 405 (57%) 177 (44%) 108 (27%)
Ketterer Kunst Munich 1 63 53 (84%) 0 (0%) 41 (77%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 2 947 649 (69%) 113 (17%) 432 (67%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 8 2141 1587 (74%) 382 (24%) 886 (56%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 15 20881 10078 (48%) 4152 (41%) 3909 (39%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 3 1492 1257 (84%) 256 (20%) 986 (78%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 14 1807 1279 (71%) 181 (14%) 539 (42%)
L'Autographe Auctions London 1 181 83 (46%) 44 (53%) 18 (22%)
Lang's Auction, Inc. Bouckville 2 38 38 (100%) 9 (24%) 24 (63%)
Lark Mason Associates New Braunfels 3 153 112 (73%) 84 (75%) 9 (8%)
Lay's Auctioneers Cornwall 3 1787 1454 (81%) 283 (19%) 936 (64%)
Leland Little Auctions Hillsborough, NC 20 840 835 (99%) 2 (0%) 829 (99%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 16 3036 2574 (85%) 899 (35%) 909 (35%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Cincinnati 7 2267 1985 (88%) 740 (37%) 787 (40%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Denver, 1 69 56 (81%) 30 (54%) 17 (30%)
Librairie des Elephants Ixelles 1 163 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Librairie Loeb Larocque Paris 1 1 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Lion Heart Autographs New York, NY 2 395 238 (60%) 44 (18%) 111 (47%)
Litchfield County Auctions Litchfield 4 475 429 (90%) 123 (29%) 222 (52%)
Loon Estates Saint Paul 1 144 132 (92%) 0 (0%) 132 (100%)
Los Angeles Estate Auction Glendale 13 3637 2161 (59%) 1766 (82%) 314 (15%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 10 1406 1157 (82%) 90 (8%) 636 (55%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 1944 1494 (77%) 27 (2%) 861 (58%)
Mennonite Life Lancaster 3 1199 737 (61%) 0 (0%) 737 (100%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 13 801 537 (67%) 327 (61%) 91 (17%)
Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers PARIS 1 1501 23 (2%) 18 (78%) 1 (4%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 9 1417 971 (69%) 0 (0%) 971 (100%)
Morphy Auctions Denver 11 3886 3645 (94%) 835 (23%) 1197 (33%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 55 7274 3029 (42%) 1676 (55%) 530 (18%)
Nadeau's Auction Gallery Windsor 4 162 141 (87%) 65 (46%) 32 (23%)
Nate D. Sanders Auctions Los Angeles 11 2000 745 (37%) 0 (0%) 745 (100%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 11 449 430 (96%) 175 (41%) 157 (37%)
New England Auctions Branford 3 125 124 (99%) 27 (22%) 80 (65%)
New England Book Auctions South Deerfield 24 5070 4810 (95%) 190 (4%) 4540 (94%)
North American Auction Company Bozeman 12 1229 802 (65%) 635 (79%) 51 (6%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 9 3727 2118 (57%) 925 (44%) 1279 (60%)
Nye & Company Auctioneers Bloomfield 10 628 351 (56%) 204 (58%) 78 (22%)
Old World Auctions Richmond 6 4283 3333 (78%) 2638 (79%) 451 (14%)
One Of A Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 3 597 498 (83%) 0 (0%) 498 (100%)
One Source Auctions Canandaigua 14 2385 2038 (85%) 4 (0%) 2034 (100%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 2 391 170 (43%) 7 (4%) 148 (87%)
OSENAT VERSAILLES 1 137 86 (63%) 8 (9%) 40 (47%)
Pandolfini Florence 3 471 350 (74%) 7 (2%) 179 (51%)
PBA Galleries Berkeley 31 12151 9094 (75%) 4471 (49%) 2685 (30%)
Peter Arnold Prahran VIC 1 394 290 (74%) 0 (0%) 174 (60%)
PIASA Paris 4 834 517 (62%) 9 (2%) 250 (48%)
Poster Auctions International, Inc. New York 5 1821 437 (24%) 106 (24%) 150 (34%)
PosterConnection Inc. Clayton 4 1439 891 (62%) 777 (87%) 32 (4%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 9 623 501 (80%) 204 (41%) 167 (33%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 20 6663 6044 (91%) 1873 (31%) 2366 (39%)
Propstore Hertfordshire 2 903 709 (79%) 1 (0%) 296 (42%)
Propstore Valencia 2 1740 1465 (84%) 718 (49%) 154 (11%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 9 5601 4886 (87%) 1677 (34%) 1716 (35%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 8 1494 1321 (88%) 510 (39%) 374 (28%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 15 3449 2820 (82%) 802 (28%) 1097 (39%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Van Nuys, CA 3 649 467 (72%) 172 (37%) 148 (32%)
Revere Auctions St. Paul 7 732 625 (85%) 220 (35%) 174 (28%)
Ripley Auctions Indianapolis 5 670 620 (93%) 369 (60%) 88 (14%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 12 3829 3593 (94%) 1244 (35%) 1763 (49%)
Rossini Paris 17 5738 1864 (32%) 97 (5%) 680 (36%)
RR Auction Amherst 24 12056 8422 (70%) 908 (11%) 2979 (35%)
Santa Fe Art Auction Santa Fe 7 644 500 (78%) 255 (51%) 115 (23%)
Sarasota Estate Auction Sarasota 4 711 456 (64%) 268 (59%) 103 (23%)
Schilb Antiquarian Columbia 18 1850 1840 (99%) 1804 (98%) 110 (6%)
Sloane Street Auctions London 5 256 140 (55%) 14 (10%) 53 (38%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 5 2691 1047 (39%) 0 (0%) 1047 (100%)
Sothebys Cologne 1 35 32 (91%) 2 (6%) 16 (50%)
Sothebys London 22 2448 1894 (77%) 298 (16%) 963 (51%)
Sothebys Milan 1 24 15 (63%) 4 (27%) 6 (40%)
Sothebys New York 29 2754 2178 (79%) 454 (21%) 911 (42%)
Sothebys Paris 6 810 635 (78%) 43 (7%) 417 (66%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 12 556 509 (92%) 175 (34%) 205 (40%)
Stephan Welz & Co. Constantia 5 657 434 (66%) 148 (34%) 138 (32%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 2 646 306 (47%) 168 (55%) 90 (29%)
Sunstone Auction House EUGENE 3 260 143 (55%) 32 (22%) 52 (36%)
Swann Galleries New York 22 6785 5223 (77%) 1817 (35%) 1735 (33%)
Sworders Essex 2 467 386 (83%) 37 (10%) 212 (55%)
Sydney Rare Book Auctions Ultimo 14 8960 5907 (66%) 3469 (59%) 714 (12%)
Tajan Paris 2 589 343 (58%) 2 (1%) 226 (66%)
Tennants Auctioneers Leyburn 7 936 875 (93%) 49 (6%) 613 (70%)
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Paris 29 12871 10232 (80%) 873 (9%) 8260 (81%)
The Book Merchant Jenkins West End 5 1178 962 (82%) 464 (48%) 221 (23%)
The Ohio Company Marietta 1 89 71 (80%) 27 (38%) 13 (18%)
The Ross Art Group Inc Boca Raton 3 1080 334 (31%) 248 (74%) 14 (4%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 12 629 396 (63%) 266 (67%) 64 (16%)
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Carlisle 11 3179 2887 (91%) 751 (26%) 1217 (42%)
Tooveys West Sussex 12 2089 1637 (78%) 195 (12%) 910 (56%)
Trafford Books Manchester 8 1059 729 (69%) 210 (29%) 332 (46%)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Franklin 52 9749 8991 (92%) 7791 (87%) 233 (3%)
University Archives Wilton 8 3246 3028 (93%) 1209 (40%) 1194 (39%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 4 1886 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 26 9046 3474 (38%) 349 (10%) 1749 (50%)
Vogt Auction San Antonio 3 383 383 (100%) 98 (26%) 206 (54%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 5 970 835 (86%) 374 (45%) 359 (43%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 19 846 764 (90%) 376 (49%) 176 (23%)
Winner's Auctions Ltd Jerusalem 4 826 616 (75%) 260 (42%) 209 (34%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 4 498 461 (93%) 99 (21%) 182 (39%)
Withington Auctions, Inc. Goffstown 1 28 28 (100%) 0 (0%) 28 (100%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 5 3659 814 (22%) 0 (0%) 392 (48%)
Zwiggelaar Auctions Amsterdam 6 4530 3513 (78%) 0 (0%) 1998 (57%)
Total 2480 658433 525664 (80%) 98173 (19%) 329387 (63%)

(2022) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals Toronto 3 462 315 (68%) 119 (38%) 103 (33%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 3 214 168 (79%) 61 (36%) 59 (35%)
Addison and Sarova Social Circle 6 1790 1766 (99%) 1 (0%) 169 (10%)
Ader PARIS 25 6156 3971 (65%) 330 (8%) 2492 (63%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 9 1743 1489 (85%) 236 (16%) 1012 (68%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 4 210 204 (97%) 0 (0%) 204 (100%)
ALDE Paris 20 4502 2580 (57%) 86 (3%) 1593 (62%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 9 5293 3635 (69%) 1485 (41%) 1251 (34%)
Angling Auctions Romsey 1 34 29 (85%) 8 (28%) 9 (31%)
Antikvariat Bryggen AS Skjeberg 4 1657 1244 (75%) 327 (26%) 647 (52%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Constantia 8 4181 1214 (29%) 793 (65%) 230 (19%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Lakeville 4 1107 289 (26%) 243 (84%) 21 (7%)
Arader Galleries New York City 5 846 452 (53%) 272 (60%) 34 (8%)
Arenberg Auctions BRUSSEL 5 5582 4475 (80%) 849 (19%) 2088 (47%)
Artcurial Paris 17 3336 2374 (71%) 549 (23%) 1157 (49%)
Ashcroft and Moore Hatboro 1 349 301 (86%) 82 (27%) 64 (21%)
Aspire Art Auctions Illovo 3 251 122 (49%) 26 (21%) 25 (20%)
Aspire Art Auctions Cape Town, 1 13 5 (38%) 0 (0%) 1 (20%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 5 290 271 (93%) 114 (42%) 64 (24%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 5 2587 1806 (70%) 301 (17%) 1100 (61%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 4 813 720 (89%) 128 (18%) 289 (40%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 5 1277 962 (75%) 131 (14%) 483 (50%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 2 66 20 (30%) 3 (15%) 15 (75%)
Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers Billinghurst, West Sussex 4 261 230 (88%) 56 (24%) 132 (57%)
Bertolami Fine Art Rome 3 1160 328 (28%) 1 (0%) 234 (71%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 11 2113 1472 (70%) 247 (17%) 759 (52%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 1 132 86 (65%) 1 (1%) 32 (37%)
Bogota Auction Bogota 5 829 654 (79%) 8 (1%) 554 (85%)
Bonhams London 24 3131 2537 (81%) 196 (8%) 1502 (59%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 7 1108 982 (89%) 188 (19%) 536 (55%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 1 220 189 (86%) 16 (8%) 108 (57%)
Bonhams Marlborough 1 474 254 (54%) 118 (46%) 101 (40%)
Bonhams New York 24 3624 2688 (74%) 370 (14%) 1293 (48%)
Bonhams Paris 1 145 113 (78%) 6 (5%) 69 (61%)
Bruneau & Co. Cranston 10 1967 1945 (99%) 316 (16%) 954 (49%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 10 687 579 (84%) 176 (30%) 259 (45%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 54 4382 3702 (84%) 1569 (42%) 1500 (41%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 2 9887 6793 (69%) 0 (0%) 4651 (68%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 2 1991 1625 (82%) 0 (0%) 1582 (97%)
Canada Book Auctions Limited Toronto 3 525 244 (46%) 177 (73%) 25 (10%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 2 31 31 (100%) 16 (52%) 4 (13%)
Casco Bay Auctions Freeport 1 64 49 (77%) 30 (61%) 8 (16%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 3 185 169 (91%) 50 (30%) 106 (63%)
Catawiki B. V. LA Assen, 258 15982 12783 (80%) 2434 (19%) 9724 (76%)
Central Mass Auctions Boston, 2 404 401 (99%) 118 (29%) 109 (27%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 2 95 87 (92%) 24 (28%) 49 (56%)
Chiswick Auctions London 15 3826 2335 (61%) 519 (22%) 852 (36%)
Chorley's Gloucestershire 5 305 264 (87%) 78 (30%) 127 (48%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 3 1776 1337 (75%) 255 (19%) 903 (68%)
Christies London - King Street 12 1421 1197 (84%) 370 (31%) 506 (42%)
Christies London -South Kensington 1 250 176 (70%) 4 (2%) 82 (47%)
Christies New York 24 2661 2250 (85%) 248 (11%) 1261 (56%)
Christies Paris 8 1419 938 (66%) 98 (10%) 576 (61%)
Christies Rome 1 52 52 (100%) 8 (15%) 35 (67%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 6 444 311 (70%) 162 (52%) 52 (17%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 93 91 (98%) 10 (11%) 4 (4%)
Cotswold Auction Company Cheltenham 3 512 428 (84%) 82 (19%) 229 (54%)
Cotswold Auction Company Cirencester 4 116 81 (70%) 33 (41%) 20 (25%)
Damien Voglaire Brussels 5 1855 1560 (84%) 21 (1%) 900 (58%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 16 3686 2463 (67%) 328 (13%) 1184 (48%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 6 541 518 (96%) 101 (20%) 281 (54%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 19 7088 6221 (88%) 691 (11%) 3940 (63%)
Dorotheum Linz 1 122 102 (84%) 0 (0%) 102 (100%)
Dorotheum Vienna 7 1863 1362 (73%) 31 (2%) 1261 (93%)
Doyle New York New York 11 2197 1945 (89%) 569 (29%) 903 (46%)
Dreweatts Newbury 1 433 265 (61%) 176 (66%) 36 (14%)
Du Mouchelles Detroit 9 586 500 (85%) 200 (40%) 159 (32%)
Duke's Dorchester 3 171 115 (67%) 20 (17%) 52 (45%)
Early American Rancho Santa Fe 8 1916 1682 (88%) 756 (45%) 164 (10%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 19 1127 900 (80%) 415 (46%) 277 (31%)
EV Stamps Richmond 5 593 457 (77%) 0 (0%) 457 (100%)
Fairhill Auction Elkton 1 375 246 (66%) 122 (50%) 26 (11%)
Finarte Milan 8 1966 1010 (51%) 53 (5%) 510 (51%)
Finarte Rome 7 3270 1838 (56%) 5 (0%) 881 (48%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 3 1830 1237 (68%) 272 (22%) 583 (47%)
Forum Auctions London 45 11053 9446 (85%) 2131 (23%) 4774 (51%)
Freemans Philadelphia 5 404 380 (94%) 61 (16%) 220 (58%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 14 6565 3631 (55%) 1780 (49%) 1851 (51%)
Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers Columbus 11 583 471 (81%) 208 (44%) 105 (22%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 2 769 500 (65%) 153 (31%) 114 (23%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 8 3162 2213 (70%) 0 (0%) 2213 (100%)
Gorringes Lewes 7 1379 1221 (89%) 318 (26%) 720 (59%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 4 117 70 (60%) 22 (31%) 28 (40%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 1 60 55 (92%) 6 (11%) 28 (51%)
Guernseys New York, NY 3 81 43 (53%) 32 (74%) 4 (9%)
Hake's Auctions York 5 3986 3907 (98%) 1990 (51%) 360 (9%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 500 211073 207300 (98%) 9452 (5%) 179884 (87%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 27 9315 6736 (72%) 4945 (73%) 598 (9%)
Il Ponte Milan 7 2078 1888 (91%) 325 (17%) 1161 (61%)
Il Ponte Milan 3 698 635 (91%) 3 (0%) 450 (71%)
International Autograph Auctions Europe SL Malaga 10 5564 3966 (71%) 23 (1%) 1675 (42%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 1 577 490 (85%) 0 (0%) 400 (82%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 1 134 132 (99%) 11 (8%) 103 (78%)
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Harrisonburg 9 939 907 (97%) 157 (17%) 581 (64%)
Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 6 4624 1756 (38%) 662 (38%) 786 (45%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 7 1198 1138 (95%) 4 (0%) 1131 (99%)
Kedem Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem 9 1271 1146 (90%) 68 (6%) 975 (85%)
Kestenbaum and Company Brooklyn 4 950 744 (78%) 331 (44%) 220 (30%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 2 717 463 (65%) 101 (22%) 281 (61%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 9 2352 1198 (51%) 462 (39%) 414 (35%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 11 15683 8704 (56%) 4674 (54%) 4028 (46%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 4 1888 1510 (80%) 428 (28%) 1071 (71%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 13 1793 1279 (71%) 189 (15%) 558 (44%)
Lang's Auction, Inc. Bouckville 2 36 36 (100%) 5 (14%) 30 (83%)
Lark Mason Associates New Braunfels 2 114 79 (69%) 58 (73%) 17 (22%)
Leland Little Auctions Hillsborough, NC 16 684 670 (98%) 14 (2%) 606 (90%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 13 2810 2455 (87%) 748 (30%) 1004 (41%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Cincinnati 8 2540 2063 (81%) 885 (43%) 712 (35%)
Lion Heart Autographs New York, NY 2 338 260 (77%) 40 (15%) 159 (61%)
Litchfield County Auctions Litchfield 4 442 374 (85%) 143 (38%) 154 (41%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 8 1601 1349 (84%) 63 (5%) 796 (59%)
Macon Brothers Auctioneers Walla Walla 1 199 144 (72%) 105 (73%) 17 (12%)
Maison Bibelot Firenze 4 1100 759 (69%) 0 (0%) 445 (59%)
Marathon Auction Services Marathon 1 104 104 (100%) 0 (0%) 104 (100%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 2379 1748 (73%) 75 (4%) 1026 (59%)
Mennonite Life Lancaster 2 800 716 (90%) 0 (0%) 716 (100%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 13 632 428 (68%) 246 (57%) 100 (23%)
Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers PARIS 7 6317 504 (8%) 191 (38%) 73 (14%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 8 1676 1072 (64%) 0 (0%) 1072 (100%)
Morphy Auctions Denver 9 3489 3204 (92%) 768 (24%) 1076 (34%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 33 5644 2337 (41%) 1136 (49%) 401 (17%)
Nadeau's Auction Gallery Windsor 4 213 187 (88%) 49 (26%) 81 (43%)
Nate D. Sanders Auctions Los Angeles 11 2150 746 (35%) 0 (0%) 746 (100%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 11 502 473 (94%) 175 (37%) 181 (38%)
New England Auctions South Deerfield 29 4783 4557 (95%) 0 (0%) 4557 (100%)
North American Auction Company Bozeman 9 1181 844 (71%) 713 (84%) 19 (2%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 10 3873 2341 (60%) 931 (40%) 1410 (60%)
Nye & Company Auctioneers Bloomfield 15 1120 782 (70%) 438 (56%) 208 (27%)
Old World Auctions Richmond 6 4124 3270 (79%) 2477 (76%) 494 (15%)
One Of A Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 2 459 390 (85%) 0 (0%) 390 (100%)
One Source Auctions Canandaigua 13 2367 2093 (88%) 6 (0%) 2085 (100%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 6 975 866 (89%) 83 (10%) 662 (76%)
OSENAT VERSAILLES 1 127 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Pandolfini Florence 3 235 149 (63%) 18 (12%) 56 (38%)
PBA Galleries Berkeley 33 12624 9100 (72%) 4429 (49%) 2787 (31%)
Peter Arnold Prahran VIC 1 244 224 (92%) 0 (0%) 159 (71%)
PIASA Paris 5 611 376 (62%) 13 (3%) 181 (48%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 8 1515 1066 (70%) 194 (18%) 619 (58%)
Poster Auctions International, Inc. New York 3 1457 858 (59%) 121 (14%) 329 (38%)
PosterConnection Inc. Clayton 5 1338 865 (65%) 736 (85%) 31 (4%)
Pot of Gold Estate Liquidations DBA AZFirearms.com Avondale 3 80 79 (99%) 0 (0%) 79 (100%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 3 277 245 (88%) 58 (24%) 162 (66%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 19 6967 6473 (93%) 1719 (27%) 2785 (43%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 10 6420 5699 (89%) 2046 (36%) 1721 (30%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 6 1359 1245 (92%) 360 (29%) 252 (20%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 9 2237 1954 (87%) 605 (31%) 744 (38%)
Revere Auctions St. Paul 9 667 605 (91%) 156 (26%) 263 (43%)
Ripley Auctions Indianapolis 8 845 787 (93%) 364 (46%) 196 (25%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 8 2317 2255 (97%) 735 (33%) 1032 (46%)
Rossini Paris 16 6584 1555 (24%) 116 (7%) 542 (35%)
RR Auction Amherst 24 13817 9379 (68%) 1729 (18%) 3212 (34%)
Saffronart Mumbai 1 100 48 (48%) 6 (13%) 4 (8%)
Santa Fe Art Auction Santa Fe 6 585 450 (77%) 228 (51%) 109 (24%)
Schilb Antiquarian Columbia 17 1815 1804 (99%) 1711 (95%) 17 (1%)
Second Story Books Rockville 1 105 58 (55%) 32 (55%) 18 (31%)
Skinner Marlborough 7 940 828 (88%) 251 (30%) 409 (49%)
Sloane Street Auctions London 1 245 210 (86%) 71 (34%) 88 (42%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 6 2944 1355 (46%) 0 (0%) 1355 (100%)
Sothebys Cologne 3 156 151 (97%) 0 (0%) 145 (96%)
Sothebys London 29 3243 2536 (78%) 228 (9%) 1441 (57%)
Sothebys Milan 1 283 208 (74%) 14 (7%) 113 (54%)
Sothebys New York 24 1690 1257 (74%) 215 (17%) 575 (46%)
Sothebys Paris 10 936 707 (76%) 89 (13%) 398 (56%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 8 508 468 (92%) 111 (24%) 269 (57%)
Stephan Welz & Co. Constantia 4 306 187 (61%) 27 (14%) 75 (40%)
Stephenson's Auctioneers & Appraisers Southampton 2 511 486 (95%) 353 (73%) 45 (9%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 2 452 427 (94%) 181 (42%) 176 (41%)
Swann Galleries New York 24 8199 6498 (79%) 2073 (32%) 2388 (37%)
Sydney Rare Book Auctions Ultimo 14 8364 6451 (77%) 3902 (60%) 898 (14%)
Tajan Paris 6 1147 314 (27%) 13 (4%) 140 (45%)
Tennants Auctioneers Leyburn 10 825 760 (92%) 51 (7%) 474 (62%)
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Paris 19 8604 6624 (77%) 473 (7%) 5034 (76%)
The Ross Art Group Inc Boca Raton 3 1046 422 (40%) 316 (75%) 28 (7%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 9 649 435 (67%) 237 (54%) 104 (24%)
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Carlisle 9 2573 2451 (95%) 760 (31%) 1074 (44%)
Tooveys West Sussex 11 2331 2007 (86%) 195 (10%) 1192 (59%)
Trafford Books Manchester 9 1303 899 (69%) 314 (35%) 404 (45%)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Franklin 53 10600 10076 (95%) 8222 (82%) 568 (6%)
University Archives Wilton 9 3998 3820 (96%) 1300 (34%) 1830 (48%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 5 2472 1585 (64%) 609 (38%) 924 (58%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 26 10000 3126 (31%) 348 (11%) 1471 (47%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 4 1083 937 (87%) 308 (33%) 430 (46%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 42 1787 1551 (87%) 910 (59%) 267 (17%)
Winner's Auctions Ltd Jerusalem 9 2019 1617 (80%) 790 (49%) 491 (30%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 9 316 253 (80%) 95 (38%) 88 (35%)
Withington Auctions, Inc. Goffstown 2 65 60 (92%) 28 (47%) 15 (25%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 2 3321 1807 (54%) 1009 (56%) 749 (41%)
Zwiggelaar Auctions Amsterdam 10 4789 3994 (83%) 18 (0%) 2433 (61%)
Total 2354 626346 504795 (81%) 94660 (19%) 319227 (63%)

(2021) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals Toronto 1 360 251 (70%) 108 (43%) 73 (29%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 4 202 160 (79%) 63 (39%) 61 (38%)
Addison and Sarova Social Circle 7 1822 1744 (96%) 15 (1%) 243 (14%)
Ader PARIS 28 6201 3726 (60%) 425 (11%) 2193 (59%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 13 3011 2172 (72%) 282 (13%) 1328 (61%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 14 782 727 (93%) 29 (4%) 695 (96%)
ALDE Paris 24 5578 3874 (69%) 181 (5%) 2624 (68%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 12 8319 6361 (76%) 2131 (34%) 2580 (41%)
Angling Auctions Romsey 1 65 61 (94%) 14 (23%) 19 (31%)
Antikvariat Bryggen AS Skjeberg 7 1182 941 (80%) 69 (7%) 858 (91%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Constantia 8 3817 1308 (34%) 892 (68%) 218 (17%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Lakeville 5 1560 489 (31%) 381 (78%) 44 (9%)
Arader Galleries New York City 5 847 494 (58%) 325 (66%) 35 (7%)
Arenberg Auctions BRUSSEL 6 5368 4027 (75%) 346 (9%) 2459 (61%)
Artcurial Paris 16 3335 2606 (78%) 338 (13%) 1573 (60%)
Aspire Art Auctions Illovo 2 145 58 (40%) 1 (2%) 17 (29%)
Aspire Art Auctions Cape Town, 2 184 98 (53%) 14 (14%) 31 (32%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 6 380 368 (97%) 155 (42%) 95 (26%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 8 2454 1690 (69%) 32 (2%) 1623 (96%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 4 975 822 (84%) 102 (12%) 347 (42%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 7 1433 1137 (79%) 132 (12%) 663 (58%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 2 99 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers Billinghurst, West Sussex 4 528 459 (87%) 175 (38%) 178 (39%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 10 1819 1238 (68%) 143 (12%) 671 (54%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 3 327 264 (81%) 21 (8%) 155 (59%)
Bogota Auction Bogota 3 674 622 (92%) 0 (0%) 592 (95%)
Bonhams London 22 3625 2949 (81%) 234 (8%) 1841 (62%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 6 1207 1053 (87%) 146 (14%) 614 (58%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 6 929 750 (81%) 66 (9%) 437 (58%)
Bonhams New York 20 3421 2538 (74%) 467 (18%) 1156 (46%)
Bonhams Paris 1 37 26 (70%) 1 (4%) 14 (54%)
Bruneau & Co. Cranston 9 2686 2626 (98%) 471 (18%) 1427 (54%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 7 585 516 (88%) 193 (37%) 173 (34%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 53 5790 5023 (87%) 1990 (40%) 2374 (47%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 2 10680 7568 (71%) 102 (1%) 4762 (63%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 2 2381 1981 (83%) 0 (0%) 1845 (93%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 4 68 66 (97%) 25 (38%) 21 (32%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 3 335 315 (94%) 77 (24%) 204 (65%)
Catawiki B. V. LA Assen, 309 20935 17004 (81%) 2968 (17%) 13114 (77%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 1 31 29 (94%) 2 (7%) 18 (62%)
Chiswick Auctions London 16 3954 2430 (61%) 614 (25%) 961 (40%)
Chorley's Gloucestershire 6 690 637 (92%) 123 (19%) 396 (62%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 2 1587 1225 (77%) 2 (0%) 877 (72%)
Christies London - King Street 10 1025 839 (82%) 83 (10%) 444 (53%)
Christies London -South Kensington 3 627 529 (84%) 128 (24%) 196 (37%)
Christies New York 21 3120 2714 (87%) 347 (13%) 1602 (59%)
Christies Paris 10 1503 1316 (88%) 124 (9%) 897 (68%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 21 1482 1057 (71%) 528 (50%) 222 (21%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 81 78 (96%) 11 (14%) 9 (12%)
Cotswold Auction Company Cheltenham 2 443 371 (84%) 63 (17%) 201 (54%)
Cotswold Auction Company Cirencester 1 69 63 (91%) 28 (44%) 15 (24%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 5 1638 1348 (82%) 520 (39%) 448 (33%)
Damien Voglaire Brussels 2 808 665 (82%) 11 (2%) 406 (61%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 21 3880 2774 (71%) 338 (12%) 1498 (54%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 11 1077 920 (85%) 190 (21%) 487 (53%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 21 7577 6807 (90%) 590 (9%) 4608 (68%)
Donald Heald Auctions New York 2 410 152 (37%) 120 (79%) 11 (7%)
Dorotheum Salzburg 1 28 18 (64%) 0 (0%) 18 (100%)
Dorotheum Vienna 9 2067 1571 (76%) 25 (2%) 1493 (95%)
Doyle New York New York 11 2069 1874 (91%) 541 (29%) 914 (49%)
Early American Rancho Santa Fe 5 1341 1125 (84%) 320 (28%) 164 (15%)
Eaton Hudson Boston 1 302 124 (41%) 36 (29%) 28 (23%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 28 1130 994 (88%) 381 (38%) 352 (35%)
EV Stamps Richmond 1 659 626 (95%) 0 (0%) 626 (100%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 4 1986 1700 (86%) 13 (1%) 1087 (64%)
Finarte Milan 7 2055 1173 (57%) 33 (3%) 529 (45%)
Finarte Rome 6 2645 1573 (59%) 8 (1%) 685 (44%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 6 2612 2131 (82%) 519 (24%) 1023 (48%)
Forum Auctions London 49 11576 9949 (86%) 1730 (17%) 5410 (54%)
Freemans Philadelphia 7 523 482 (92%) 102 (21%) 269 (56%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 10 6072 3866 (64%) 1751 (45%) 2115 (55%)
Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers Columbus 13 797 686 (86%) 299 (44%) 196 (29%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 2 794 529 (67%) 322 (61%) 79 (15%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 2 2881 2125 (74%) 0 (0%) 2125 (100%)
Gorringes Lewes 1 315 296 (94%) 88 (30%) 112 (38%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 6 491 414 (84%) 167 (40%) 169 (41%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 2 53 46 (87%) 3 (7%) 29 (63%)
Guernseys New York, NY 2 427 259 (61%) 218 (84%) 16 (6%)
Hake's Auctions York 6 4981 4906 (98%) 1909 (39%) 708 (14%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 429 218619 215184 (98%) 15646 (7%) 174058 (81%)
Heritage Auctions Hong Kong 2 1083 1078 (100%) 91 (8%) 653 (61%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 28 11535 8588 (74%) 6501 (76%) 722 (8%)
Il Ponte Milan 3 1022 927 (91%) 31 (3%) 637 (69%)
Il Ponte Milan 4 1095 994 (91%) 248 (25%) 560 (56%)
International Autograph Auctions Europe SL Malaga 6 2658 2299 (86%) 75 (3%) 834 (36%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 2 737 630 (85%) 93 (15%) 527 (84%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 3 114 111 (97%) 3 (3%) 93 (84%)
Jasper52 New York 16 2297 454 (20%) 358 (79%) 12 (3%)
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Harrisonburg 2 605 604 (100%) 82 (14%) 402 (67%)
Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 4 4545 1989 (44%) 788 (40%) 925 (47%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 7 645 635 (98%) 145 (23%) 331 (52%)
Kedem Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem 8 1217 1032 (85%) 24 (2%) 981 (95%)
Kestenbaum and Company Brooklyn 4 1366 869 (64%) 187 (22%) 470 (54%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 2 721 500 (69%) 108 (22%) 324 (65%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 8 1818 1404 (77%) 375 (27%) 708 (50%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 7 13464 7330 (54%) 4150 (57%) 3180 (43%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 3 1453 1323 (91%) 194 (15%) 1115 (84%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 12 1621 1056 (65%) 111 (11%) 568 (54%)
Lang's Auction, Inc. Bouckville 2 243 243 (100%) 31 (13%) 183 (75%)
Lark Mason Associates New Braunfels 2 345 308 (89%) 99 (32%) 125 (41%)
Leland Little Auctions Hillsborough, NC 19 705 696 (99%) 8 (1%) 652 (94%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 14 2907 2577 (89%) 756 (29%) 1187 (46%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Cincinnati 4 979 857 (88%) 323 (38%) 308 (36%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Denver, 1 12 12 (100%) 6 (50%) 2 (17%)
Librairie Loeb Larocque Paris 1 247 202 (82%) 10 (5%) 112 (55%)
Lion Heart Autographs New York, NY 2 329 239 (73%) 56 (23%) 107 (45%)
Litchfield County Auctions Litchfield 4 115 97 (84%) 39 (40%) 26 (27%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 7 1424 1214 (85%) 94 (8%) 684 (56%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 2678 2018 (75%) 83 (4%) 1112 (55%)
Mennonite Life Lancaster 2 799 724 (91%) 0 (0%) 724 (100%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 10 454 306 (67%) 158 (52%) 71 (23%)
Michael Treloar Adelaide SA 3 614 359 (58%) 186 (52%) 76 (21%)
Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers PARIS 14 10951 533 (5%) 144 (27%) 87 (16%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 9 1895 1271 (67%) 0 (0%) 1271 (100%)
Morphy Auctions Denver 5 2138 1977 (92%) 547 (28%) 797 (40%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 30 5450 2033 (37%) 1016 (50%) 340 (17%)
Nadeau's Auction Gallery Windsor 6 175 163 (93%) 34 (21%) 85 (52%)
Nate D. Sanders Auctions Los Angeles 8 946 180 (19%) 0 (0%) 180 (100%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 10 514 504 (98%) 167 (33%) 217 (43%)
New England Auctions South Deerfield 13 2078 1988 (96%) 68 (3%) 1883 (95%)
North American Auction Company Bozeman 9 871 688 (79%) 544 (79%) 22 (3%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 8 4017 2319 (58%) 897 (39%) 1559 (67%)
Nye & Company Auctioneers Bloomfield 17 1353 984 (73%) 353 (36%) 534 (54%)
Old World Auctions Richmond 7 4196 3428 (82%) 2542 (74%) 575 (17%)
One Of A Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 3 726 593 (82%) 82 (14%) 433 (73%)
One Source Auctions Canandaigua 6 1480 1252 (85%) 2 (0%) 1250 (100%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 6 590 484 (82%) 44 (9%) 304 (63%)
Pandolfini Florence 4 398 300 (75%) 1 (0%) 195 (65%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 35 11721 8861 (76%) 4188 (47%) 2924 (33%)
Peter Arnold Prahran VIC 4 454 345 (76%) 0 (0%) 171 (50%)
PIASA Paris 7 1621 409 (25%) 74 (18%) 137 (34%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 7 1391 991 (71%) 144 (15%) 615 (62%)
Poster Auctions International, Inc. New York 1 487 291 (60%) 28 (10%) 128 (44%)
PosterConnection Inc. Clayton 4 1137 851 (75%) 652 (77%) 74 (9%)
Pot of Gold Estate Liquidations DBA AZFirearms.com Avondale 1 404 404 (100%) 0 (0%) 404 (100%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 6 197 129 (65%) 62 (48%) 36 (28%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 15 5713 5323 (93%) 1392 (26%) 2322 (44%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 12 7176 6484 (90%) 1584 (24%) 2588 (40%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 6 1417 1335 (94%) 317 (24%) 579 (43%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 7 1246 1056 (85%) 187 (18%) 478 (45%)
Revere Auctions St. Paul 8 541 482 (89%) 170 (35%) 185 (38%)
Ripley Auctions Indianapolis 6 762 719 (94%) 372 (52%) 183 (25%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 8 1675 1626 (97%) 359 (22%) 916 (56%)
Rossini Paris 12 1994 737 (37%) 96 (13%) 296 (40%)
RR Auction Amherst 25 14990 10553 (70%) 1022 (10%) 4094 (39%)
Santa Fe Art Auction Santa Fe 5 588 502 (85%) 192 (38%) 192 (38%)
Schilb Antiquarian Columbia 10 1053 1046 (99%) 995 (95%) 4 (0%)
Second Story Books Rockville 7 881 231 (26%) 171 (74%) 39 (17%)
Second Story Books Washington, DC 1 118 30 (25%) 23 (77%) 3 (10%)
Sheppards Irish Auction House Durrow 2 889 587 (66%) 70 (12%) 237 (40%)
Skinner Marlborough 25 1892 1635 (86%) 539 (33%) 644 (39%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 5 2716 1357 (50%) 0 (0%) 1357 (100%)
Sothebys Cologne 1 61 41 (67%) 1 (2%) 21 (51%)
Sothebys Hong Kong 1 137 70 (51%) 20 (29%) 11 (16%)
Sothebys London 34 4439 3488 (79%) 341 (10%) 2057 (59%)
Sothebys Milan 1 15 12 (80%) 2 (17%) 9 (75%)
Sothebys New York 23 3038 2700 (89%) 590 (22%) 1371 (51%)
Sothebys Paris 10 1014 861 (85%) 48 (6%) 510 (59%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 11 604 562 (93%) 152 (27%) 286 (51%)
Stephan Welz & Co. Constantia 5 484 271 (56%) 22 (8%) 76 (28%)
Stephenson's Auctioneers & Appraisers Southampton 2 734 705 (96%) 429 (61%) 103 (15%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 2 406 346 (85%) 111 (32%) 187 (54%)
Swann Galleries New York 28 8674 7102 (82%) 1975 (28%) 2895 (41%)
Sydney Rare Book Auctions Ultimo 9 6320 5244 (83%) 3346 (64%) 975 (19%)
Tajan Paris 7 1500 984 (66%) 138 (14%) 379 (39%)
Tennants Auctioneers Leyburn 4 700 682 (97%) 30 (4%) 510 (75%)
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Paris 18 7375 6133 (83%) 476 (8%) 4944 (81%)
The Ohio Company Marietta 1 60 57 (95%) 20 (35%) 26 (46%)
The Ross Art Group Inc Boca Raton 1 330 93 (28%) 76 (82%) 6 (6%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 11 450 314 (70%) 190 (61%) 69 (22%)
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Carlisle 7 2150 2008 (93%) 544 (27%) 988 (49%)
Tooveys West Sussex 8 1512 1377 (91%) 110 (8%) 950 (69%)
Trafford Books Manchester 8 1382 939 (68%) 336 (36%) 345 (37%)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Franklin 52 10400 10008 (96%) 7524 (75%) 417 (4%)
University Archives Wilton 9 3195 2995 (94%) 1144 (38%) 1339 (45%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 4 1538 976 (63%) 376 (39%) 600 (61%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 20 7987 2445 (31%) 295 (12%) 1202 (49%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 4 941 872 (93%) 136 (16%) 633 (73%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 32 1324 1260 (95%) 679 (54%) 243 (19%)
Winner's Auctions Ltd Jerusalem 7 1920 1631 (85%) 708 (43%) 627 (38%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 5 365 240 (66%) 136 (57%) 34 (14%)
Withington Auctions, Inc. Goffstown 2 62 49 (79%) 17 (35%) 20 (41%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 3 5706 2991 (52%) 1 (0%) 1198 (40%)
Zwiggelaar Auctions Amsterdam 9 4771 3932 (82%) 1 (0%) 2571 (65%)
Total 2319 636853 521461 (82%) 95512 (18%) 325209 (62%)

(2020) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals Toronto 1 279 188 (67%) 90 (48%) 40 (21%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 3 202 171 (85%) 60 (35%) 73 (43%)
Addison and Sarova Social Circle 3 781 710 (91%) 145 (20%) 223 (31%)
Ader PARIS 16 4106 2891 (70%) 335 (12%) 1776 (61%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 10 2084 1455 (70%) 158 (11%) 936 (64%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 20 964 816 (85%) 0 (0%) 816 (100%)
ALDE Paris 15 4241 2958 (70%) 156 (5%) 1780 (60%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 6 3417 2780 (81%) 922 (33%) 984 (35%)
Antikvariat Bryggen AS Skjeberg 2 321 160 (50%) 115 (72%) 18 (11%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Constantia 2 1175 434 (37%) 313 (72%) 53 (12%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Lakeville 5 1493 573 (38%) 425 (74%) 77 (13%)
Arader Galleries New York City 8 1689 979 (58%) 632 (65%) 82 (8%)
Arenberg Auctions BRUSSEL 5 4106 3264 (79%) 154 (5%) 2062 (63%)
Artcurial Paris 13 1747 1267 (73%) 48 (4%) 873 (69%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 6 222 207 (93%) 87 (42%) 55 (27%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 8 2210 1530 (69%) 27 (2%) 1377 (90%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 3 733 622 (85%) 96 (15%) 298 (48%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 3 937 591 (63%) 69 (12%) 262 (44%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 1 314 301 (96%) 34 (11%) 215 (71%)
Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers Billinghurst, West Sussex 3 531 427 (80%) 153 (36%) 165 (39%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 8 1836 1188 (65%) 219 (18%) 630 (53%)
Bogota Auction Bogota 3 387 324 (84%) 1 (0%) 273 (84%)
Bonhams London 14 2518 1965 (78%) 145 (7%) 1176 (60%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 2 269 190 (71%) 29 (15%) 91 (48%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 2 310 261 (84%) 44 (17%) 113 (43%)
Bonhams New York 21 3037 1909 (63%) 320 (17%) 845 (44%)
Bruneau & Co. Cranston 7 1083 1058 (98%) 100 (9%) 345 (33%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 11 527 477 (91%) 148 (31%) 208 (44%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 51 4711 4053 (86%) 1799 (44%) 1784 (44%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 2 10707 7548 (71%) 1 (0%) 4931 (65%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 3 2342 2080 (89%) 1 (0%) 1858 (89%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 4 116 101 (87%) 38 (38%) 37 (37%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 2 219 198 (90%) 73 (37%) 101 (51%)
Catawiki B. V. LA Assen, 258 19357 15618 (81%) 3141 (20%) 11588 (74%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 1 63 60 (95%) 15 (25%) 33 (55%)
Chiswick Auctions London 15 4108 2474 (60%) 756 (31%) 820 (33%)
Chorley's Gloucestershire 2 211 190 (90%) 11 (6%) 127 (67%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 1 937 646 (69%) 31 (5%) 407 (63%)
Christies London - King Street 5 600 454 (76%) 14 (3%) 273 (60%)
Christies London -South Kensington 5 1263 953 (75%) 299 (31%) 294 (31%)
Christies New York 29 2344 1775 (76%) 346 (19%) 780 (44%)
Christies Paris 6 884 738 (83%) 48 (7%) 438 (59%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 13 1045 781 (75%) 430 (55%) 155 (20%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 106 105 (99%) 15 (14%) 51 (49%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 11 3028 2649 (87%) 940 (35%) 982 (37%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 8 2098 1510 (72%) 116 (8%) 806 (53%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 9 1390 1344 (97%) 166 (12%) 916 (68%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 15 5805 5241 (90%) 444 (8%) 3496 (67%)
Dorotheum Vienna 13 2690 2016 (75%) 33 (2%) 1938 (96%)
Doyle New York New York 13 2387 2128 (89%) 675 (32%) 834 (39%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 23 941 643 (68%) 372 (58%) 148 (23%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 3 1933 1729 (89%) 5 (0%) 1110 (64%)
Finarte Milan 3 836 426 (51%) 10 (2%) 174 (41%)
Finarte Rome 5 1666 1037 (62%) 11 (1%) 605 (58%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 4 3153 2442 (77%) 874 (36%) 918 (38%)
Forum Auctions London 51 11226 9320 (83%) 1598 (17%) 4897 (53%)
Freemans Philadelphia 9 1466 1264 (86%) 410 (32%) 497 (39%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 16 6441 3710 (58%) 1330 (36%) 2259 (61%)
Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers Columbus 9 673 568 (84%) 244 (43%) 166 (29%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 2 1325 984 (74%) 515 (52%) 390 (40%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 2 2205 1647 (75%) 0 (0%) 1476 (90%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 8 532 452 (85%) 234 (52%) 121 (27%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 2 79 76 (96%) 8 (11%) 51 (67%)
Guernseys New York, NY 1 287 34 (12%) 29 (85%) 1 (3%)
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills 2 2082 2078 (100%) 5 (0%) 2037 (98%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 342 183755 179915 (98%) 24793 (14%) 133230 (74%)
Heritage Auctions Hong Kong 2 852 834 (98%) 78 (9%) 390 (47%)
Heritage Auctions New York 2 734 626 (85%) 258 (41%) 210 (34%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 29 12844 9104 (71%) 6835 (75%) 647 (7%)
Il Ponte Milan 10 1474 1239 (84%) 253 (20%) 684 (55%)
Il Ponte Milan 5 893 751 (84%) 32 (4%) 455 (61%)
International Autograph Auctions Europe SL Malaga 2 970 925 (95%) 35 (4%) 343 (37%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 2 636 560 (88%) 86 (15%) 474 (85%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 3 377 366 (97%) 17 (5%) 289 (79%)
Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 5 3764 1845 (49%) 789 (43%) 875 (47%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 6 353 332 (94%) 123 (37%) 110 (33%)
Kedem Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem 11 3713 2892 (78%) 112 (4%) 2677 (93%)
Kestenbaum and Company Brooklyn 4 930 555 (60%) 153 (28%) 212 (38%)
Ketterer Kunst Munich 1 20 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 2 906 558 (62%) 145 (26%) 330 (59%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 7 2714 2372 (87%) 775 (33%) 885 (37%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 5 16721 8390 (50%) 4100 (49%) 3546 (42%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 3 1345 1006 (75%) 484 (48%) 522 (52%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 15 1504 1088 (72%) 122 (11%) 509 (47%)
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster 2 800 718 (90%) 0 (0%) 718 (100%)
Lang's Auction, Inc. Bouckville 1 338 337 (100%) 33 (10%) 274 (81%)
Leland Little Auctions Hillsborough, NC 24 1140 1108 (97%) 39 (4%) 986 (89%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 11 2107 1821 (86%) 451 (25%) 793 (44%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers West Palm Beach, Florida 1 28 26 (93%) 2 (8%) 12 (46%)
Lion Heart Autographs New York, NY 1 122 70 (57%) 18 (26%) 29 (41%)
Litchfield County Auctions Litchfield 1 186 182 (98%) 28 (15%) 135 (74%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 4 1425 1162 (82%) 102 (9%) 624 (54%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 2 2217 1764 (80%) 118 (7%) 1039 (59%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 11 341 214 (63%) 118 (55%) 50 (23%)
Michael Treloar Adelaide SA 1 264 182 (69%) 93 (51%) 59 (32%)
Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers PARIS 7 1933 931 (48%) 440 (47%) 265 (28%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 3 442 255 (58%) 1 (0%) 179 (70%)
Morphy Auctions Denver 7 2947 2745 (93%) 641 (23%) 894 (33%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 37 6164 2772 (45%) 1185 (43%) 594 (21%)
Nadeau's Auction Gallery Windsor 7 206 188 (91%) 44 (23%) 72 (38%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 5 436 359 (82%) 115 (32%) 131 (36%)
North American Auction Company Bozeman 8 833 688 (83%) 525 (76%) 32 (5%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 10 4223 2548 (60%) 1074 (42%) 1448 (57%)
Nye & Company Auctioneers Bloomfield 15 898 661 (74%) 158 (24%) 466 (71%)
Old World Auctions Richmond 5 3948 2983 (76%) 2218 (74%) 501 (17%)
One Of A Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 4 887 713 (80%) 0 (0%) 713 (100%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 5 647 504 (78%) 80 (16%) 331 (66%)
Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC Timonium 1 471 471 (100%) 163 (35%) 185 (39%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 33 11809 9065 (77%) 3709 (41%) 3576 (39%)
Peter Arnold Prahran VIC 1 238 188 (79%) 1 (1%) 99 (53%)
PIASA Paris 1 166 69 (42%) 8 (12%) 30 (43%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 4 916 815 (89%) 157 (19%) 497 (61%)
PosterConnection Inc. Clayton 4 1678 863 (51%) 460 (53%) 57 (7%)
Pot of Gold Estate Liquidations DBA AZFirearms.com Avondale 1 245 242 (99%) 0 (0%) 242 (100%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 5 156 109 (70%) 39 (36%) 26 (24%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 16 6730 6364 (95%) 1800 (28%) 2471 (39%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 2 156 146 (94%) 0 (0%) 127 (87%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 8 3913 3409 (87%) 638 (19%) 1353 (40%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 8 2109 1829 (87%) 807 (44%) 466 (25%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 9 854 761 (89%) 166 (22%) 382 (50%)
Revere Auctions St. Paul 6 950 867 (91%) 314 (36%) 303 (35%)
Richard Opfer Auctioneering, Inc. Timonium 1 254 237 (93%) 80 (34%) 111 (47%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 5 2367 2214 (94%) 858 (39%) 909 (41%)
Rossini Paris 8 1380 706 (51%) 66 (9%) 322 (46%)
RR Auction Amherst 25 16694 10730 (64%) 1415 (13%) 3844 (36%)
Saffronart Mumbai 1 100 84 (84%) 2 (2%) 41 (49%)
Skinner Boston 1 156 123 (79%) 31 (25%) 50 (41%)
Skinner Marlborough 12 1017 881 (87%) 287 (33%) 337 (38%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 3 1392 630 (45%) 0 (0%) 630 (100%)
Sothebys Hong Kong 1 9 9 (100%) 0 (0%) 5 (56%)
Sothebys London 25 3195 2289 (72%) 126 (6%) 1209 (53%)
Sothebys New York 32 3352 2496 (74%) 494 (20%) 998 (40%)
Sothebys Paris 6 833 634 (76%) 104 (16%) 306 (48%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 8 327 309 (95%) 90 (29%) 152 (49%)
Stephan Welz & Co. Constantia 6 598 393 (66%) 17 (4%) 192 (49%)
Stephenson's Auctioneers & Appraisers Southampton 1 339 339 (100%) 28 (8%) 223 (66%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 2 218 175 (80%) 45 (26%) 103 (59%)
Swann Galleries New York 22 7905 6206 (79%) 1823 (29%) 2199 (35%)
Tajan Paris 7 1195 541 (45%) 26 (5%) 234 (43%)
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Paris 18 6587 5106 (78%) 304 (6%) 4042 (79%)
The Written Word Autographs Tamworth, NH 1 974 520 (53%) 88 (17%) 84 (16%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 5 261 200 (77%) 104 (52%) 61 (31%)
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Carlisle 7 2131 2036 (96%) 465 (23%) 1102 (54%)
Tooveys West Sussex 8 1441 1270 (88%) 153 (12%) 840 (66%)
Trafford Books Manchester 9 1736 1305 (75%) 498 (38%) 407 (31%)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Franklin 52 10400 9650 (93%) 8398 (87%) 265 (3%)
University Archives Westport 9 2450 2187 (89%) 796 (36%) 1001 (46%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 5 2002 1105 (55%) 577 (52%) 528 (48%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 6 2700 882 (33%) 21 (2%) 512 (58%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 22 1157 1084 (94%) 503 (46%) 296 (27%)
Winner's Auctions Ltd Jerusalem 7 1469 1234 (84%) 754 (61%) 245 (20%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 5 175 143 (82%) 54 (38%) 45 (31%)
Witherell's Sacramento 2 135 133 (99%) 36 (27%) 48 (36%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 1 2448 1473 (60%) 859 (58%) 614 (42%)
Zwiggelaar Auctions Amsterdam 7 3822 2965 (78%) 25 (1%) 1552 (52%)
Total 1866 521422 430544 (83%) 94124 (22%) 253399 (59%)

(2019) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 3 613 471 (77%) 194 (41%) 158 (34%)
Addison and Sarova Macon 3 1232 1038 (84%) 457 (44%) 283 (27%)
Ader PARIS 14 3976 2456 (62%) 59 (2%) 1569 (64%)
Aguttes Lyon 2 294 137 (47%) 25 (18%) 62 (45%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 10 2410 1498 (62%) 66 (4%) 900 (60%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 25 1266 1108 (88%) 0 (0%) 1108 (100%)
ALDE Paris 16 4644 2924 (63%) 86 (3%) 1878 (64%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 4 5300 3991 (75%) 1655 (41%) 1182 (30%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Cape Town 8 4162 1235 (30%) 944 (76%) 164 (13%)
Arader Galleries New York City 5 859 526 (61%) 244 (46%) 49 (9%)
Arenberg Auctions BRUSSEL 4 4254 3137 (74%) 110 (4%) 1947 (62%)
Art + Object AUCKLAND 1 338 301 (89%) 82 (27%) 139 (46%)
Artcurial Paris 12 2060 1244 (60%) 31 (2%) 716 (58%)
Artoria S.A. Genève 1 368 240 (65%) 62 (26%) 115 (48%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 6 285 250 (88%) 138 (55%) 33 (13%)
Aste Bolaffi Milan 1 79 21 (27%) 0 (0%) 21 (100%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 9 2724 1841 (68%) 22 (1%) 1691 (92%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 3 577 474 (82%) 108 (23%) 194 (41%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 3 1199 931 (78%) 79 (8%) 490 (53%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 2 335 200 (60%) 25 (13%) 142 (71%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 9 2196 1187 (54%) 180 (15%) 571 (48%)
Bogota Auction Bogota 1 208 154 (74%) 0 (0%) 154 (100%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 56 35 (63%) 6 (17%) 9 (26%)
Bonhams London 14 2665 1962 (74%) 180 (9%) 1041 (53%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 2 324 223 (69%) 49 (22%) 81 (36%)
Bonhams New York 20 3879 2444 (63%) 337 (14%) 983 (40%)
Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates, LLC Portsmouth NH 1 29 28 (97%) 12 (43%) 9 (32%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 13 634 544 (86%) 207 (38%) 201 (37%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 57 4407 3695 (84%) 1835 (50%) 1520 (41%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 2 10598 2903 (27%) 0 (0%) 1744 (60%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 2 2393 2049 (86%) 497 (24%) 1552 (76%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 4 72 51 (71%) 24 (47%) 10 (20%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 4 275 240 (87%) 81 (34%) 127 (53%)
Catawiki B. V. LA Assen, 110 7195 5684 (79%) 1080 (19%) 4271 (75%)
Central Mass Auctions Boston, 1 219 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 3 89 68 (76%) 27 (40%) 21 (31%)
Chiswick Auctions London 14 3552 2348 (66%) 1139 (49%) 589 (25%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 4 1847 1245 (67%) 251 (20%) 700 (56%)
Christies London - King Street 16 2164 1516 (70%) 82 (5%) 738 (49%)
Christies New York 22 2617 2042 (78%) 236 (12%) 953 (47%)
Christies Paris 7 1667 1366 (82%) 160 (12%) 765 (56%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 19 1917 1464 (76%) 809 (55%) 260 (18%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 69 36 (52%) 6 (17%) 24 (67%)
Couton Veyrac Jamault Nantes 3 164 24 (15%) 1 (4%) 15 (63%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 13 3155 2311 (73%) 1064 (46%) 600 (26%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 10 1883 1432 (76%) 114 (8%) 845 (59%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 8 1170 1058 (90%) 375 (35%) 445 (42%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 20 7596 6767 (89%) 787 (12%) 4297 (64%)
Dorotheum Vienna 12 2432 1731 (71%) 35 (2%) 1646 (95%)
Doyle New York New York 16 3372 2883 (86%) 1006 (35%) 1157 (40%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 19 1403 934 (67%) 492 (53%) 252 (27%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 4 2093 1771 (85%) 16 (1%) 1115 (63%)
Finarte Milan 1 251 54 (22%) 7 (13%) 6 (11%)
Finarte Rome 1 605 400 (66%) 6 (2%) 259 (65%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 5 1795 1475 (82%) 346 (23%) 667 (45%)
Forum Auctions London 52 10509 8469 (81%) 1878 (22%) 3818 (45%)
FRAYSSE & Associés Paris 1 1 1 (100%) 0 (0%) 1 (100%)
Freemans Philadelphia 11 2173 1786 (82%) 681 (38%) 648 (36%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 24 7958 4682 (59%) 2015 (43%) 2667 (57%)
Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers Columbus 3 450 363 (81%) 237 (65%) 34 (9%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 1 439 305 (69%) 177 (58%) 125 (41%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 2 1407 430 (31%) 0 (0%) 430 (100%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 6 423 275 (65%) 164 (60%) 52 (19%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 2 54 51 (94%) 6 (12%) 33 (65%)
Guernseys New York, NY 4 1049 717 (68%) 609 (85%) 52 (7%)
Heritage Auctions Chicago 3 3074 2920 (95%) 1353 (46%) 552 (19%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 313 169363 164197 (97%) 25135 (15%) 122458 (75%)
Heritage Auctions Hong Kong 1 855 763 (89%) 361 (47%) 154 (20%)
Heritage Auctions New York 5 2217 2042 (92%) 567 (28%) 1087 (53%)
Hindman Auctions Chicago 9 1805 1560 (86%) 476 (31%) 636 (41%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 29 17675 10167 (58%) 8247 (81%) 504 (5%)
Hôtel des Ventes Mosan Liege 1 33 27 (82%) 8 (30%) 13 (48%)
Il Ponte Milan 4 717 527 (74%) 19 (4%) 258 (49%)
Il Ponte Milan 1 948 911 (96%) 369 (41%) 267 (29%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 1 733 622 (85%) 163 (26%) 459 (74%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 2 87 86 (99%) 4 (5%) 67 (78%)
James D Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 1 416 399 (96%) 81 (20%) 110 (28%)
JellyFishTree Johannesburg 4 1171 314 (27%) 197 (63%) 35 (11%)
Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 5 3996 1741 (44%) 332 (19%) 661 (38%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 4 687 540 (79%) 296 (55%) 107 (20%)
Kedem Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem 9 2998 2239 (75%) 116 (5%) 2050 (92%)
Kestenbaum and Company New York 6 1111 683 (61%) 251 (37%) 179 (26%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 4 830 548 (66%) 192 (35%) 325 (59%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 13 3959 2634 (67%) 886 (34%) 1036 (39%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 5 20796 9573 (46%) 5876 (61%) 3530 (37%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 3 1524 1144 (75%) 500 (44%) 644 (56%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 11 1553 1046 (67%) 21 (2%) 610 (58%)
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster 4 1720 1635 (95%) 0 (0%) 1635 (100%)
Lark Mason Associates New York 1 138 77 (56%) 33 (43%) 28 (36%)
Leland Little Auctions Hillsborough, NC 16 1047 1042 (100%) 14 (1%) 901 (86%)
Lion Heart Autographs New York, NY 2 325 209 (64%) 102 (49%) 36 (17%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 3 1417 1095 (77%) 101 (9%) 496 (45%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 2955 1678 (57%) 72 (4%) 936 (56%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 12 595 356 (60%) 215 (60%) 61 (17%)
Michael Treloar Adelaide SA 5 987 571 (58%) 214 (37%) 153 (27%)
Minerva Auctions Roma Roma 1 507 332 (65%) 2 (1%) 189 (57%)
Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers PARIS 6 2852 422 (15%) 97 (23%) 197 (47%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 4 751 313 (42%) 0 (0%) 313 (100%)
Morphy Auctions Denver 3 2299 2193 (95%) 612 (28%) 579 (26%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 21 5066 2223 (44%) 960 (43%) 651 (29%)
Nadeau's Auction Gallery Windsor 1 46 35 (76%) 25 (71%) 6 (17%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 19 1862 1860 (100%) 1332 (72%) 88 (5%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 8 550 429 (78%) 168 (39%) 144 (34%)
North American Auction Company Bozeman 10 973 821 (84%) 524 (64%) 51 (6%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 8 3171 1986 (63%) 939 (47%) 1047 (53%)
Nye & Company Auctioneers Bloomfield 12 733 462 (63%) 143 (31%) 278 (60%)
Old World Auctions Richmond 5 3574 2660 (74%) 2109 (79%) 330 (12%)
One Of Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 2 389 309 (79%) 0 (0%) 309 (100%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 5 551 406 (74%) 31 (8%) 276 (68%)
Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC Timonium 1 53 53 (100%) 38 (72%) 9 (17%)
Pandolfini Florence 3 373 268 (72%) 1 (0%) 168 (63%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 26 10005 7285 (73%) 3870 (53%) 1104 (15%)
PIASA Paris 4 794 573 (72%) 6 (1%) 410 (72%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 7 1054 800 (76%) 160 (20%) 459 (57%)
PosterConnection Inc. Clayton 5 1885 802 (43%) 175 (22%) 252 (31%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 10 657 437 (67%) 253 (58%) 86 (20%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 13 5221 4329 (83%) 1904 (44%) 1226 (28%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 6 787 193 (25%) 1 (1%) 152 (79%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 11 3214 2558 (80%) 462 (18%) 944 (37%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 8 1892 1672 (88%) 805 (48%) 344 (21%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 9 754 647 (86%) 256 (40%) 185 (29%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 10 5037 4538 (90%) 1538 (34%) 2239 (49%)
Rossini Paris 7 1305 626 (48%) 43 (7%) 236 (38%)
RR Auction Amherst 25 16963 10371 (61%) 1598 (15%) 3037 (29%)
Santa Fe Art Auction Santa Fe, NM 1 96 68 (71%) 0 (0%) 68 (100%)
Skinner Boston 7 1269 1152 (91%) 338 (29%) 557 (48%)
Skinner Marlborough 6 625 466 (75%) 164 (35%) 142 (30%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 4 2682 1142 (43%) 0 (0%) 1142 (100%)
Sothebys London 20 3349 2503 (75%) 100 (4%) 1320 (53%)
Sothebys New York 18 2206 1561 (71%) 281 (18%) 573 (37%)
Sothebys Paris 6 925 681 (74%) 70 (10%) 373 (55%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 10 576 548 (95%) 216 (39%) 185 (34%)
Stephan Welz & Co. Constantia 4 589 272 (46%) 65 (24%) 47 (17%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 2 449 183 (41%) 78 (43%) 87 (48%)
Swann Galleries New York 26 9482 7234 (76%) 2040 (28%) 2572 (36%)
Tajan Paris 6 1250 621 (50%) 56 (9%) 310 (50%)
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Paris 6 1756 1280 (73%) 149 (12%) 1006 (79%)
The Written Word Autographs Tamworth, NH 2 1750 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 1 226 155 (69%) 118 (76%) 12 (8%)
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Carlisle 4 1136 549 (48%) 185 (34%) 236 (43%)
Tooveys West Sussex 13 1869 1692 (91%) 173 (10%) 1090 (64%)
Trafford Books Manchester 8 1481 1062 (72%) 260 (24%) 538 (51%)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Franklin 52 9539 8441 (88%) 7207 (85%) 197 (2%)
University Archives Westport 9 2377 1967 (83%) 1096 (56%) 489 (25%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 4 2035 1095 (54%) 580 (53%) 515 (47%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 14 5335 2158 (40%) 499 (23%) 1012 (47%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 5 1481 1065 (72%) 468 (44%) 279 (26%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 10 791 725 (92%) 409 (56%) 143 (20%)
Winner's Auctions Ltd Jerusalem 7 2117 1402 (66%) 905 (65%) 247 (18%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 10 376 275 (73%) 127 (46%) 62 (23%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 2 4204 2634 (63%) 1601 (61%) 1033 (39%)
Zwiggelaar Auctions Amsterdam 3 1695 584 (34%) 0 (0%) 269 (46%)
Total 1669 517145 395690 (77%) 103039 (26%) 218129 (55%)

(2018) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 4 675 530 (79%) 272 (51%) 119 (22%)
Addison and Sarova Macon 3 976 877 (90%) 305 (35%) 345 (39%)
Ader PARIS 19 5505 3427 (62%) 182 (5%) 1992 (58%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 8 1524 931 (61%) 89 (10%) 543 (58%)
Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 1 531 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 15 643 552 (86%) 0 (0%) 552 (100%)
ALDE Paris 15 4177 2464 (59%) 77 (3%) 1532 (62%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 2 2633 769 (29%) 351 (46%) 215 (28%)
Amadeus-Auktionshaus GmbH Wien 1 212 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Cape Town 8 3112 1261 (41%) 934 (74%) 219 (17%)
Arader Galleries New York City 6 1005 620 (62%) 318 (51%) 75 (12%)
Arenberg Auctions BRUSSEL 3 3827 2632 (69%) 77 (3%) 1692 (64%)
Artcurial Paris 12 2339 1436 (61%) 65 (5%) 781 (54%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 6 250 234 (94%) 88 (38%) 45 (19%)
Aste Bolaffi Milan 2 774 548 (71%) 0 (0%) 547 (100%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 4 1108 703 (63%) 20 (3%) 590 (84%)
Audap and Mirabaud PARIS 4 700 545 (78%) 246 (45%) 206 (38%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 4 743 623 (84%) 119 (19%) 288 (46%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 3 900 807 (90%) 44 (5%) 523 (65%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 1 279 265 (95%) 24 (9%) 200 (75%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 15 3369 2172 (64%) 355 (16%) 1032 (48%)
Bonhams Chichester 1 32 24 (75%) 7 (29%) 7 (29%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 184 118 (64%) 42 (36%) 28 (24%)
Bonhams London 13 2946 2198 (75%) 219 (10%) 1261 (57%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 2 439 345 (79%) 48 (14%) 173 (50%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 1 217 181 (83%) 17 (9%) 99 (55%)
Bonhams New York 11 1922 1138 (59%) 183 (16%) 424 (37%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 9 710 609 (86%) 304 (50%) 156 (26%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 54 4515 3744 (83%) 1801 (48%) 1613 (43%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 9 12437 4157 (33%) 0 (0%) 2039 (49%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 3 2266 2012 (89%) 259 (13%) 1753 (87%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 4 77 73 (95%) 29 (40%) 17 (23%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 3 327 264 (81%) 74 (28%) 168 (64%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 4 315 287 (91%) 98 (34%) 101 (35%)
Chiswick Auctions London 11 2890 2267 (78%) 855 (38%) 794 (35%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 2 1761 1178 (67%) 219 (19%) 704 (60%)
Christies London - King Street 9 1336 1018 (76%) 29 (3%) 593 (58%)
Christies London -South Kensington 3 339 273 (81%) 5 (2%) 148 (54%)
Christies New York 12 1624 1266 (78%) 122 (10%) 578 (46%)
Christies Paris 7 644 434 (67%) 16 (4%) 228 (53%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 22 2203 1756 (80%) 911 (52%) 368 (21%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 89 88 (99%) 18 (20%) 56 (64%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 12 2695 2294 (85%) 989 (43%) 621 (27%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 8 1781 1068 (60%) 85 (8%) 641 (60%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 5 423 354 (84%) 119 (34%) 164 (46%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 20 7700 6662 (87%) 787 (12%) 4041 (61%)
Dorotheum Salzburg 2 177 92 (52%) 14 (15%) 68 (74%)
Dorotheum Vienna 12 2902 2138 (74%) 36 (2%) 2015 (94%)
Doyle New York New York 12 3388 2895 (85%) 991 (34%) 1173 (41%)
Drouot Estimations Paris 1 96 30 (31%) 0 (0%) 10 (33%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 20 1586 1214 (77%) 595 (49%) 308 (25%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 4 2912 2469 (85%) 13 (1%) 1546 (63%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 4 1838 561 (31%) 100 (18%) 280 (50%)
Forum Auctions London 52 8619 6620 (77%) 1562 (24%) 2923 (44%)
Forum Auctions in Italy Roma 12 1673 1323 (79%) 664 (50%) 209 (16%)
Freemans Philadelphia 8 1433 1122 (78%) 420 (37%) 400 (36%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 14 6994 3847 (55%) 1905 (50%) 1942 (50%)
Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, Inc. Pflugerville 1 3 3 (100%) 0 (0%) 3 (100%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 2 1684 582 (35%) 278 (48%) 302 (52%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 5 2139 1384 (65%) 0 (0%) 391 (28%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 9 973 443 (46%) 263 (59%) 91 (21%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 2 130 128 (98%) 22 (17%) 78 (61%)
Guernseys New York, NY 2 716 387 (54%) 327 (85%) 33 (9%)
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills 2 3032 2996 (99%) 0 (0%) 2996 (100%)
Heritage Auctions Chicago 11 6016 5545 (92%) 3039 (55%) 919 (17%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 244 146089 140902 (96%) 25702 (18%) 102624 (73%)
Heritage Auctions Hong Kong 2 2011 1844 (92%) 857 (46%) 403 (22%)
Heritage Auctions New York 3 1492 1230 (82%) 350 (28%) 727 (59%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 25 11868 6376 (54%) 4688 (74%) 517 (8%)
Il Ponte Milan 14 1953 1480 (76%) 452 (31%) 661 (45%)
Il Ponte Milan 5 458 315 (69%) 18 (6%) 193 (61%)
J & J LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS LLC Syosset 1 469 107 (23%) 103 (96%) 2 (2%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 3 845 713 (84%) 169 (24%) 544 (76%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 2 37 33 (89%) 1 (3%) 20 (61%)
James D Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 7 1238 1078 (87%) 368 (34%) 264 (24%)
Jasper52 New York 1 200 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 5 3896 1799 (46%) 591 (33%) 877 (49%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 2 176 175 (99%) 69 (39%) 62 (35%)
Kedem Auction Jerusalem 11 4408 3090 (70%) 106 (3%) 2888 (93%)
Kestenbaum and Company New York 3 1027 578 (56%) 42 (7%) 260 (45%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 4 1180 618 (52%) 176 (28%) 442 (72%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 8 5290 3842 (73%) 837 (22%) 2205 (57%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 5 20114 9861 (49%) 5732 (58%) 3819 (39%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 10 1711 1121 (66%) 34 (3%) 560 (50%)
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster 6 2689 2445 (91%) 0 (0%) 2445 (100%)
Leland Little Auctions Hillsborough, NC 13 878 636 (72%) 28 (4%) 537 (84%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 8 1977 1614 (82%) 494 (31%) 538 (33%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Clayton, Missouri 1 18 16 (89%) 5 (31%) 7 (44%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers West Palm Beach, Florida 1 102 77 (75%) 34 (44%) 26 (34%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 4 1484 1175 (79%) 168 (14%) 474 (40%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 2446 1953 (80%) 159 (8%) 1005 (51%)
Mayfair Book Auctions Mayfair, London 1 70 28 (40%) 14 (50%) 2 (7%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 11 464 299 (64%) 171 (57%) 55 (18%)
Michael Treloar Adelaide SA 1 453 231 (51%) 197 (85%) 10 (4%)
Minerva Auctions Roma Roma 5 2333 498 (21%) 4 (1%) 218 (44%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 5 1241 675 (54%) 0 (0%) 675 (100%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 12 3232 1086 (34%) 641 (59%) 184 (17%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 15 2859 2859 (100%) 1995 (70%) 206 (7%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 9 490 340 (69%) 119 (35%) 111 (33%)
Neret Minet and Tessier Paris 6 1681 995 (59%) 621 (62%) 288 (29%)
North American Auction Company Bozeman 7 662 628 (95%) 323 (51%) 130 (21%)
Northeast Auctions Portsmouth 4 247 217 (88%) 68 (31%) 94 (43%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 7 4003 2210 (55%) 1373 (62%) 837 (38%)
Nye & Company Auctioneers Bloomfield 3 154 106 (69%) 49 (46%) 42 (40%)
Old World Auctions Glen Allen 5 3554 2680 (75%) 2273 (85%) 218 (8%)
One Of Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 2 381 283 (74%) 89 (31%) 143 (51%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 10 572 409 (72%) 56 (14%) 253 (62%)
Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC Timonium 1 410 410 (100%) 151 (37%) 169 (41%)
Pandolfini Florence 3 294 228 (78%) 0 (0%) 165 (72%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 29 12947 9161 (71%) 4816 (53%) 1423 (16%)
Peter Arnold Prahran VIC 1 233 174 (75%) 8 (5%) 79 (45%)
PIASA Paris 8 1182 937 (79%) 40 (4%) 767 (82%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 4 823 412 (50%) 62 (15%) 195 (47%)
PosterConnection Inc. Clayton 5 1728 940 (54%) 0 (0%) 94 (10%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 9 303 181 (60%) 100 (55%) 35 (19%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 13 5541 4520 (82%) 1889 (42%) 1356 (30%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 10 3499 1403 (40%) 2 (0%) 692 (49%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 7 2523 1413 (56%) 266 (19%) 511 (36%)
Quagga Rare Books and Art Cape Town 1 41 12 (29%) 8 (67%) 1 (8%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 4 1464 1186 (81%) 609 (51%) 217 (18%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 9 328 277 (84%) 105 (38%) 89 (32%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 6 1992 1686 (85%) 825 (49%) 634 (38%)
Rossini Paris 13 2844 795 (28%) 23 (3%) 283 (36%)
RR Auction Amherst 24 17384 10635 (61%) 1501 (14%) 3014 (28%)
San Rafael Auction Gallery San Rafael 1 1 1 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Skinner Boston 9 1365 1042 (76%) 380 (36%) 417 (40%)
Skinner Marlborough 3 842 542 (64%) 315 (58%) 126 (23%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 4 3666 1501 (41%) 0 (0%) 1501 (100%)
Sothebys London 22 3796 2659 (70%) 52 (2%) 1455 (55%)
Sothebys Milan 1 316 316 (100%) 7 (2%) 262 (83%)
Sothebys New York 17 2490 1741 (70%) 339 (19%) 736 (42%)
Sothebys Paris 7 741 527 (71%) 10 (2%) 303 (57%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 11 717 681 (95%) 313 (46%) 226 (33%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 2 491 320 (65%) 137 (43%) 156 (49%)
Swann Galleries New York 26 9705 7359 (76%) 2108 (29%) 2700 (37%)
Tajan Paris 8 2099 1116 (53%) 64 (6%) 569 (51%)
The Antiquarian Book Izola 1 9 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
The Written Word Autographs Tamworth, NH 2 1183 427 (36%) 179 (42%) 58 (14%)
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Carlisle 1 268 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Tooveys West Sussex 15 2199 1892 (86%) 181 (10%) 1137 (60%)
Trafford Books Manchester 8 1530 1147 (75%) 418 (36%) 383 (33%)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Franklin 41 6765 6419 (95%) 5114 (80%) 159 (2%)
University Archives Westport 8 2165 1585 (73%) 961 (61%) 344 (22%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 5 2256 990 (44%) 419 (42%) 571 (58%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 11 6305 2659 (42%) 901 (34%) 975 (37%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 2 740 437 (59%) 191 (44%) 138 (32%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 11 930 867 (93%) 476 (55%) 184 (21%)
Winner's Auctions Ltd Jerusalem 7 2520 1730 (69%) 1098 (63%) 309 (18%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 8 243 196 (81%) 67 (34%) 35 (18%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 2 4327 2795 (65%) 1722 (62%) 1073 (38%)
Total 1414 479122 358924 (75%) 96064 (27%) 193065 (54%)

(2017) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 3 463 357 (77%) 195 (55%) 73 (20%)
Addison and Sarova Macon 3 666 578 (87%) 233 (40%) 190 (33%)
Ader PARIS 21 5522 3656 (66%) 324 (9%) 2254 (62%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 9 1142 744 (65%) 79 (11%) 412 (55%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 7 248 223 (90%) 0 (0%) 223 (100%)
ALDE Paris 15 4767 3112 (65%) 128 (4%) 1963 (63%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 5 4640 3293 (71%) 1491 (45%) 968 (29%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Cape Town 8 3074 1243 (40%) 904 (73%) 268 (22%)
Arader Galleries New York City 6 1310 844 (64%) 435 (52%) 140 (17%)
Archives International Auctions FORT LEE, 4 3074 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Artcurial Paris 15 2132 1364 (64%) 53 (4%) 801 (59%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 5 379 367 (97%) 129 (35%) 98 (27%)
Aste Bolaffi Milan 4 2121 1389 (65%) 2 (0%) 1185 (85%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 1 302 202 (67%) 0 (0%) 202 (100%)
Auctionata Berlin 11 677 77 (11%) 37 (48%) 30 (39%)
Audap and Mirabaud PARIS 5 1890 637 (34%) 143 (22%) 385 (60%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 3 995 803 (81%) 142 (18%) 365 (45%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 4 1379 1191 (86%) 99 (8%) 739 (62%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 1 101 84 (83%) 15 (18%) 62 (74%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 12 2557 1526 (60%) 231 (15%) 853 (56%)
Blanchard's Auction Service Potsdam 1 2 2 (100%) 0 (0%) 2 (100%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 23 4901 3162 (65%) 1126 (36%) 1114 (35%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 56 45 (80%) 11 (24%) 16 (36%)
Bonhams London 16 3098 2349 (76%) 188 (8%) 1336 (57%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 2 507 417 (82%) 73 (18%) 180 (43%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 1 161 78 (48%) 40 (51%) 12 (15%)
Bonhams New York 13 2609 1477 (57%) 356 (24%) 441 (30%)
Booth & Williams Suwanee 1 352 347 (99%) 288 (83%) 4 (1%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 8 730 651 (89%) 229 (35%) 254 (39%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 57 4635 3857 (83%) 1813 (47%) 1696 (44%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 14 11095 7745 (70%) 1 (0%) 3788 (49%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 4 2542 2283 (90%) 314 (14%) 1850 (81%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 3 43 43 (100%) 21 (49%) 8 (19%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 4 445 300 (67%) 94 (31%) 145 (48%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 3 172 132 (77%) 61 (46%) 41 (31%)
Chiswick Auctions London 9 1505 1213 (81%) 367 (30%) 526 (43%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 2 1711 1156 (68%) 5 (0%) 754 (65%)
Christies London - King Street 10 1965 1491 (76%) 44 (3%) 831 (56%)
Christies London -South Kensington 1 15 11 (73%) 0 (0%) 7 (64%)
Christies New York 16 2487 1956 (79%) 217 (11%) 913 (47%)
Christies Paris 6 567 347 (61%) 23 (7%) 175 (50%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 23 2311 1872 (81%) 1036 (55%) 340 (18%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 165 145 (88%) 48 (33%) 49 (34%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 12 3093 2592 (84%) 874 (34%) 1135 (44%)
Dallas Auction Gallery Dallas 1 4 3 (75%) 0 (0%) 1 (33%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 7 1009 790 (78%) 137 (17%) 442 (56%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 6 486 464 (95%) 51 (11%) 390 (84%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 23 8535 7405 (87%) 1106 (15%) 4422 (60%)
Dorotheum Salzburg 1 68 30 (44%) 23 (77%) 5 (17%)
Dorotheum Vienna 16 2722 1841 (68%) 53 (3%) 1713 (93%)
Doyle New York New York 8 1493 1306 (87%) 367 (28%) 572 (44%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 19 1690 1357 (80%) 565 (42%) 491 (36%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 6 4730 3940 (83%) 36 (1%) 2414 (61%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 2 1583 1252 (79%) 293 (23%) 528 (42%)
Forum Auctions London 30 5589 4559 (82%) 1011 (22%) 2335 (51%)
Forum Auctions in Italy Roma 14 2005 1467 (73%) 739 (50%) 163 (11%)
Freemans Philadelphia 8 1394 1240 (89%) 353 (28%) 500 (40%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 21 7979 4707 (59%) 2180 (46%) 2527 (54%)
Gibson Auction Inc. Orange County 3 133 121 (91%) 21 (17%) 89 (74%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 2 707 318 (45%) 159 (50%) 78 (25%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 4 2338 1471 (63%) 0 (0%) 1007 (68%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 11 866 605 (70%) 287 (47%) 195 (32%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 3 60 58 (97%) 18 (31%) 25 (43%)
Guernseys New York, NY 1 322 222 (69%) 175 (79%) 17 (8%)
Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions Bruxelles 4 2047 1519 (74%) 71 (5%) 1056 (70%)
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills 4 2760 2615 (95%) 0 (0%) 2615 (100%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 159 95544 92718 (97%) 7494 (8%) 82134 (89%)
Heritage Auctions Hong Kong 1 848 765 (90%) 373 (49%) 139 (18%)
Heritage Auctions New York 4 3836 3398 (89%) 216 (6%) 3107 (91%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 16 5224 3641 (70%) 2366 (65%) 759 (21%)
Il Ponte Milan 18 1870 1531 (82%) 629 (41%) 593 (39%)
Il Ponte Milan 3 482 341 (71%) 28 (8%) 169 (50%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 2 964 781 (81%) 189 (24%) 592 (76%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 3 273 231 (85%) 12 (5%) 144 (62%)
James D Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 4 200 148 (74%) 68 (46%) 43 (29%)
JellyFishTree Johannesburg 5 1410 418 (30%) 332 (79%) 33 (8%)
Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 5 2634 1175 (45%) 152 (13%) 638 (54%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 4 222 199 (90%) 96 (48%) 42 (21%)
Kedem Auction Jerusalem 9 3388 2699 (80%) 187 (7%) 2102 (78%)
Kestenbaum and Company New York 3 791 512 (65%) 28 (5%) 247 (48%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 4 939 606 (65%) 166 (27%) 419 (69%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 13 4088 3046 (75%) 780 (26%) 1768 (58%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 6 21647 10459 (48%) 6465 (62%) 3595 (34%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 1 399 270 (68%) 142 (53%) 128 (47%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 12 2033 1257 (62%) 54 (4%) 612 (49%)
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster 6 2660 2380 (89%) 0 (0%) 2380 (100%)
Leland Little Auctions Hillsborough, NC 13 770 755 (98%) 22 (3%) 667 (88%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 10 2368 1708 (72%) 588 (34%) 464 (27%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Clayton, Missouri 1 31 25 (81%) 11 (44%) 8 (32%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Denver, 1 28 26 (93%) 3 (12%) 20 (77%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers West Palm Beach, Florida 1 38 25 (66%) 9 (36%) 4 (16%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 3 1426 1090 (76%) 69 (6%) 554 (51%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 2530 1816 (72%) 98 (5%) 911 (50%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 13 1018 795 (78%) 434 (55%) 197 (25%)
Michael Treloar Adelaide SA 3 639 373 (58%) 185 (50%) 101 (27%)
Mid Hudson Auction Galleries Cornwall-on-Hudson, 4 2107 1392 (66%) 772 (55%) 534 (38%)
Minerva Auctions Roma Roma 6 2241 1109 (49%) 11 (1%) 581 (52%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 4 945 671 (71%) 2 (0%) 669 (100%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 11 3275 1062 (32%) 560 (53%) 197 (19%)
Mossgreen Armadale, Melbourne VIC 5 580 381 (66%) 136 (36%) 161 (42%)
Mossgreen Woollahra NSW 2 368 239 (65%) 51 (21%) 60 (25%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 23 8889 8884 (100%) 6721 (76%) 444 (5%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 7 548 414 (76%) 181 (44%) 120 (29%)
Neret Minet and Tessier Paris 8 2280 918 (40%) 247 (27%) 368 (40%)
Northeast Auctions Portsmouth 5 282 254 (90%) 50 (20%) 146 (57%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 5 4131 2533 (61%) 1268 (50%) 1265 (50%)
Nye & Company Auctioneers Bloomfield 4 248 201 (81%) 102 (51%) 58 (29%)
Old World Auctions Glen Allen 5 3703 2669 (72%) 2279 (85%) 217 (8%)
One Of Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 2 500 384 (77%) 178 (46%) 66 (17%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 7 493 251 (51%) 17 (7%) 159 (63%)
Pandolfini Florence 3 335 188 (56%) 2 (1%) 85 (45%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 27 11798 7978 (68%) 4729 (59%) 932 (12%)
PIASA Paris 9 769 461 (60%) 17 (4%) 324 (70%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 7 2017 1477 (73%) 285 (19%) 742 (50%)
PosterConnection Inc. Clayton 1 426 201 (47%) 16 (8%) 44 (22%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 8 420 280 (67%) 134 (48%) 78 (28%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 12 4886 4255 (87%) 1650 (39%) 1417 (33%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 10 2654 1705 (64%) 177 (10%) 931 (55%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 4 1253 938 (75%) 189 (20%) 243 (26%)
Quagga Rare Books and Art Cape Town 2 139 65 (47%) 48 (74%) 11 (17%)
Quagga Rare Books and Art Stellenbosch 1 48 23 (48%) 18 (78%) 3 (13%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 5 1636 1449 (89%) 619 (43%) 354 (24%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 10 595 498 (84%) 218 (44%) 154 (31%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 3 706 643 (91%) 219 (34%) 264 (41%)
Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 4 2848 1840 (65%) 43 (2%) 1072 (58%)
Rossini Paris 12 2474 984 (40%) 180 (18%) 432 (44%)
RR Auction Amherst 25 13459 8560 (64%) 1495 (17%) 3186 (37%)
Skinner Boston 5 1170 953 (81%) 318 (33%) 380 (40%)
Skinner Marlborough 12 1727 1463 (85%) 545 (37%) 533 (36%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 2 1347 560 (42%) 0 (0%) 560 (100%)
Sothebys Hong Kong 1 24 24 (100%) 0 (0%) 13 (54%)
Sothebys London 31 4573 3404 (74%) 65 (2%) 1946 (57%)
Sothebys New York 17 2489 1593 (64%) 221 (14%) 688 (43%)
Sothebys Paris 9 617 432 (70%) 6 (1%) 243 (56%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 20 1195 1146 (96%) 429 (37%) 422 (37%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 3 865 649 (75%) 290 (45%) 263 (41%)
Swann Galleries New York 27 10537 7913 (75%) 2365 (30%) 3038 (38%)
Tajan Paris 8 1948 1142 (59%) 57 (5%) 705 (62%)
The Antiquarian Book Izola 4 57 21 (37%) 16 (76%) 2 (10%)
The Written Word Autographs Tamworth, NH 3 1619 671 (41%) 180 (27%) 116 (17%)
Tooveys West Sussex 17 1748 1484 (85%) 335 (23%) 681 (46%)
Trafford Books Manchester 4 1117 840 (75%) 353 (42%) 232 (28%)
Treadway Toomey Auctions Cincinnati, OH 1 80 73 (91%) 22 (30%) 28 (38%)
Treadway Toomey Auctions Oak Park 4 449 329 (73%) 166 (50%) 72 (22%)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Franklin 6 974 695 (71%) 586 (84%) 9 (1%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 6 4202 2205 (52%) 1005 (46%) 1200 (54%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 16 5141 2190 (43%) 755 (34%) 679 (31%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 5 1946 352 (18%) 191 (54%) 77 (22%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 7 253 236 (93%) 113 (48%) 65 (28%)
Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions Jerusalem 9 3189 2248 (70%) 1615 (72%) 528 (23%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 9 306 199 (65%) 69 (35%) 51 (26%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 4 3976 2586 (65%) 698 (27%) 1089 (42%)
Total 1366 418028 312154 (75%) 73724 (24%) 179920 (58%)

(2016) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
25 Blythe Road LONDON 4 282 62 (22%) 16 (26%) 26 (42%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 4 547 342 (63%) 211 (62%) 58 (17%)
Addison and Sarova Macon 3 917 846 (92%) 304 (36%) 275 (33%)
Ader PARIS 22 6494 3742 (58%) 179 (5%) 2133 (57%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 5 894 522 (58%) 84 (16%) 209 (40%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 21 489 465 (95%) 7 (2%) 456 (98%)
ALDE Paris 20 4513 2731 (61%) 318 (12%) 1587 (58%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 5 3203 2196 (69%) 1023 (47%) 675 (31%)
Anteo Subastas San Sebastián 3 96 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Cape Town 8 2977 1140 (38%) 849 (74%) 241 (21%)
Arader Galleries New York City 6 1216 1046 (86%) 401 (38%) 188 (18%)
Archives International Auctions FORT LEE, 4 3046 1605 (53%) 772 (48%) 208 (13%)
Artcurial Paris 17 2248 1589 (71%) 43 (3%) 1011 (64%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 6 235 231 (98%) 89 (39%) 74 (32%)
Aste Bolaffi Milan 3 1714 980 (57%) 0 (0%) 980 (100%)
Aste Bolaffi Turin 2 910 602 (66%) 0 (0%) 602 (100%)
Auctionata Berlin 80 6989 1609 (23%) 312 (19%) 641 (40%)
Auctionata New York 10 900 272 (30%) 20 (7%) 195 (72%)
Audap and Mirabaud PARIS 3 705 576 (82%) 138 (24%) 322 (56%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 5 1704 1322 (78%) 229 (17%) 566 (43%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 11 1523 1135 (75%) 148 (13%) 571 (50%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 2 242 181 (75%) 54 (30%) 99 (55%)
Bibliopathos Milano 1 568 89 (16%) 72 (81%) 6 (7%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 12 2467 1486 (60%) 239 (16%) 866 (58%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 38 8784 5778 (66%) 2095 (36%) 1935 (33%)
Bloomsbury Auctions Newbury, Berkshire 1 27 9 (33%) 3 (33%) 2 (22%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 374 267 (71%) 66 (25%) 79 (30%)
Bonhams Hong Kong 1 91 54 (59%) 0 (0%) 54 (100%)
Bonhams London 16 2840 2143 (75%) 211 (10%) 1140 (53%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 3 746 575 (77%) 91 (16%) 214 (37%)
Bonhams New York 13 2314 1491 (64%) 426 (29%) 445 (30%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 9 437 219 (50%) 82 (37%) 59 (27%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 57 4835 3753 (78%) 2166 (58%) 1286 (34%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 8 12384 8426 (68%) 2 (0%) 4263 (51%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 2 2476 2206 (89%) 564 (26%) 1642 (74%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 3 53 53 (100%) 9 (17%) 15 (28%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 3 282 260 (92%) 74 (28%) 154 (59%)
Central Mass Auctions Boston, 2 45 29 (64%) 0 (0%) 29 (100%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 3 184 153 (83%) 61 (40%) 50 (33%)
Chiswick Auctions London 2 408 323 (79%) 125 (39%) 106 (33%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 4 2174 1452 (67%) 105 (7%) 896 (62%)
Christies London - King Street 12 1413 989 (70%) 53 (5%) 489 (49%)
Christies London -South Kensington 3 549 402 (73%) 40 (10%) 188 (47%)
Christies New York 17 3494 2792 (80%) 399 (14%) 1322 (47%)
Christies Paris 6 940 570 (61%) 52 (9%) 284 (50%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 24 2526 1932 (76%) 1205 (62%) 286 (15%)
Connecticut Book Auctions Wilmington, VT 1 175 107 (61%) 102 (95%) 0 (0%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 209 191 (91%) 64 (34%) 78 (41%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 9 2164 1808 (84%) 571 (32%) 851 (47%)
Dallas Auction Gallery Dallas 3 69 65 (94%) 12 (18%) 24 (37%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 8 2192 1240 (57%) 158 (13%) 571 (46%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 4 212 197 (93%) 120 (61%) 32 (16%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 23 8434 7065 (84%) 1064 (15%) 4150 (59%)
Dorotheum Vienna 15 3395 2455 (72%) 84 (3%) 2309 (94%)
Dorothy Sloan Rare Books Austin 2 546 141 (26%) 0 (0%) 5 (4%)
Doyle New York New York 5 1659 1430 (86%) 368 (26%) 657 (46%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 20 1133 786 (69%) 468 (60%) 153 (19%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 7 5937 4931 (83%) 90 (2%) 2802 (57%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 3 1418 888 (63%) 60 (7%) 474 (53%)
Forum Auctions London 10 1840 1521 (83%) 428 (28%) 663 (44%)
Forum Auctions in Italy Roma 2 495 440 (89%) 187 (43%) 228 (52%)
Freemans Philadelphia 3 966 782 (81%) 310 (40%) 252 (32%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 16 7482 4332 (58%) 1257 (29%) 2204 (51%)
Gateway Gallery Auction Chambersburg, PA 3 866 384 (44%) 0 (0%) 384 (100%)
Gibson Auction Inc. Orange County 2 283 280 (99%) 25 (9%) 233 (83%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 2 626 436 (70%) 257 (59%) 91 (21%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 3 1835 1066 (58%) 0 (0%) 1066 (100%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 10 1021 855 (84%) 641 (75%) 100 (12%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 3 52 43 (83%) 14 (33%) 11 (26%)
Guernseys New York, NY 5 1116 613 (55%) 516 (84%) 46 (8%)
Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions Bruxelles 5 2060 1317 (64%) 108 (8%) 894 (68%)
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills 4 2640 2344 (89%) 323 (14%) 1895 (81%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 140 81196 79540 (98%) 2864 (4%) 74989 (94%)
Heritage Auctions New York 5 4043 3295 (82%) 748 (23%) 1852 (56%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 8 3139 2502 (80%) 1756 (70%) 219 (9%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 2 872 722 (83%) 165 (23%) 557 (77%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 3 58 44 (76%) 12 (27%) 16 (36%)
James D Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 6 144 114 (79%) 64 (56%) 33 (29%)
Jasper52 New York 1 112 52 (46%) 19 (37%) 13 (25%)
JellyFishTree Johannesburg 4 411 158 (38%) 127 (80%) 12 (8%)
Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 6 5040 2078 (41%) 654 (31%) 1178 (57%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 6 701 672 (96%) 282 (42%) 183 (27%)
Kedem Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem 13 4722 3352 (71%) 50 (1%) 3264 (97%)
Kestenbaum and Company New York 4 847 538 (64%) 36 (7%) 272 (51%)
Ketterer Kunst Munich 5 159 103 (65%) 1 (1%) 95 (92%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 3 2569 1641 (64%) 677 (41%) 918 (56%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 23 5620 3887 (69%) 1198 (31%) 1997 (51%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 5 21324 10250 (48%) 6021 (59%) 3944 (38%)
Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 2 570 431 (76%) 343 (80%) 25 (6%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 4 1527 970 (64%) 493 (51%) 477 (49%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 12 1854 1127 (61%) 42 (4%) 626 (56%)
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster 6 2885 2600 (90%) 0 (0%) 2600 (100%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 11 2138 1485 (69%) 504 (34%) 445 (30%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers West Palm Beach, Florida 1 25 16 (64%) 8 (50%) 4 (25%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 4 1060 842 (79%) 47 (6%) 420 (50%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 2 2334 1763 (76%) 63 (4%) 1043 (59%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 13 484 265 (55%) 159 (60%) 60 (23%)
Mid Hudson Auction Galleries Cornwall-on-Hudson, 6 463 262 (57%) 203 (77%) 29 (11%)
Minerva Auctions Roma Roma 10 3118 1236 (40%) 5 (0%) 727 (59%)
Moreshet Auctions Jerusalem 1 286 183 (64%) 0 (0%) 183 (100%)
Morton Subastas México City 1 370 66 (18%) 24 (36%) 13 (20%)
Morton Subastas México DF CP 11000 11 3103 1227 (40%) 636 (52%) 275 (22%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 23 10629 10620 (100%) 6930 (65%) 777 (7%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 13 549 406 (74%) 116 (29%) 177 (44%)
Northeast Auctions Portsmouth 4 276 254 (92%) 79 (31%) 124 (49%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 5 3849 2281 (59%) 1323 (58%) 958 (42%)
Old World Auctions Richmond 5 3743 2737 (73%) 2305 (84%) 256 (9%)
One Of Kind Collectibles Coral Gables 2 646 499 (77%) 0 (0%) 499 (100%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 12 734 473 (64%) 58 (12%) 310 (66%)
Paige Auction Portland 3 181 129 (71%) 22 (17%) 94 (73%)
Pandolfini Florence 3 524 325 (62%) 1 (0%) 244 (75%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 28 12331 8892 (72%) 5609 (63%) 1118 (13%)
Peter Arnold Prahran VIC 1 334 235 (70%) 1 (0%) 144 (61%)
Philobiblon Auctions Rome 2 361 208 (58%) 3 (1%) 205 (99%)
PIASA Paris 7 1353 800 (59%) 51 (6%) 444 (56%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 11 1532 1038 (68%) 163 (16%) 605 (58%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 8 312 232 (74%) 95 (41%) 65 (28%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 10 3656 3143 (86%) 1159 (37%) 1075 (34%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 7 2137 1414 (66%) 5 (0%) 772 (55%)
Purcell Auctioneers Birr 8 1598 1298 (81%) 288 (22%) 505 (39%)
Quagga Rare Books and Art Stellenbosch 4 144 58 (40%) 37 (64%) 13 (22%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 7 2075 1261 (61%) 655 (52%) 244 (19%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 9 521 397 (76%) 130 (33%) 128 (32%)
Reiss & Sohn Konigstein 1 1904 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
RJM Autographs and Antiques Boston 4 631 74 (12%) 64 (86%) 6 (8%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 5 1284 1170 (91%) 486 (42%) 457 (39%)
Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 4 2765 1919 (69%) 37 (2%) 1189 (62%)
Rossini Paris 12 1092 482 (44%) 56 (12%) 208 (43%)
RR Auction Amherst 23 14478 9151 (63%) 1781 (19%) 2776 (30%)
Shapiro Auctions New York 1 184 83 (45%) 60 (72%) 12 (14%)
Skinner Boston 11 1826 1390 (76%) 605 (44%) 442 (32%)
Skinner Marlborough 1 40 33 (83%) 13 (39%) 12 (36%)
Sothebys Hong Kong 1 13 10 (77%) 0 (0%) 5 (50%)
Sothebys London 29 3617 2678 (74%) 78 (3%) 1444 (54%)
Sothebys New York 14 2271 1674 (74%) 311 (19%) 701 (42%)
Sothebys Paris 9 1572 1163 (74%) 89 (8%) 610 (52%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 11 462 437 (95%) 184 (42%) 147 (34%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 2 727 563 (77%) 241 (43%) 215 (38%)
Swaen Map Auction Indian Rocks Beach 1 560 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Swann Galleries New York 30 11065 8329 (75%) 2415 (29%) 2921 (35%)
Tajan Paris 5 1322 773 (58%) 54 (7%) 406 (53%)
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Paris 11 3430 2095 (61%) 532 (25%) 1246 (59%)
The Written Word Autographs Tamworth, NH 1 549 119 (22%) 18 (15%) 19 (16%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 7 348 232 (67%) 174 (75%) 27 (12%)
Tooveys West Sussex 20 2738 2327 (85%) 542 (23%) 1023 (44%)
Treadway Toomey Auctions Oak Park 1 61 53 (87%) 16 (30%) 26 (49%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 4 2747 1334 (49%) 531 (40%) 803 (60%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 10 4142 2829 (68%) 580 (21%) 1764 (62%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 4 1605 1440 (90%) 527 (37%) 571 (40%)
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Chadds Ford, PA 5 275 273 (99%) 115 (42%) 85 (31%)
Winner's Auctions Ltd Jerusalem 3 1333 864 (65%) 463 (54%) 209 (24%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 10 314 197 (63%) 81 (41%) 40 (20%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 1 4 4 (100%) 0 (0%) 2 (50%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 2 3640 2399 (66%) 1196 (50%) 1124 (47%)
Total 1389 406738 296578 (73%) 68044 (23%) 170816 (58%)

(2015) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 7 1165 979 (84%) 333 (34%) 401 (41%)
Addison and Sarova Macon 3 583 548 (94%) 188 (34%) 187 (34%)
Ader PARIS 18 4663 3062 (66%) 146 (5%) 1833 (60%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 10 1913 1020 (53%) 172 (17%) 434 (43%)
Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 1 537 355 (66%) 4 (1%) 181 (51%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 26 695 683 (98%) 61 (9%) 621 (91%)
ALDE Paris 17 5579 3654 (66%) 439 (12%) 2164 (59%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 4 3592 2751 (77%) 1188 (43%) 897 (33%)
Anteo Subastas San Sebastián 1 8 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Cape Town 8 3444 1401 (41%) 1063 (76%) 238 (17%)
Arader Galleries New York City 7 1361 1123 (83%) 469 (42%) 282 (25%)
Archives International Auctions FORT LEE, 4 3247 1979 (61%) 974 (49%) 270 (14%)
Artcurial Paris 27 3353 2019 (60%) 175 (9%) 1090 (54%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 6 268 266 (99%) 127 (48%) 51 (19%)
Auctionata Berlin 32 2913 1088 (37%) 431 (40%) 460 (42%)
Auctionata New York 11 914 357 (39%) 128 (36%) 80 (22%)
Audap and Mirabaud PARIS 5 688 491 (71%) 149 (30%) 208 (42%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 4 1027 845 (82%) 176 (21%) 373 (44%)
Auxerre Encheres Estimations AUXERRE 1 258 180 (70%) 8 (4%) 121 (67%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 4 897 728 (81%) 110 (15%) 364 (50%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 5 533 396 (74%) 116 (29%) 208 (53%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 11 2522 1412 (56%) 229 (16%) 714 (51%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 47 12994 9493 (73%) 3011 (32%) 3663 (39%)
Bloomsbury Philobiblon Rome 3 1604 1057 (66%) 19 (2%) 577 (55%)
Bolaffi Ambassador Auctions Milan 3 1769 1220 (69%) 0 (0%) 1220 (100%)
Bolaffi Ambassador Auctions Turin 1 119 53 (45%) 0 (0%) 53 (100%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 163 130 (80%) 63 (48%) 36 (28%)
Bonhams Hong Kong 1 101 55 (54%) 0 (0%) 31 (56%)
Bonhams London 21 3641 2672 (73%) 215 (8%) 1326 (50%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 2 463 354 (76%) 71 (20%) 144 (41%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 1 234 141 (60%) 17 (12%) 37 (26%)
Bonhams New York 15 2497 1506 (60%) 265 (18%) 583 (39%)
Bonhams Oxford 4 837 736 (88%) 160 (22%) 369 (50%)
Bonhams San Francisco 5 891 645 (72%) 131 (20%) 233 (36%)
Brunk Auctions Asheville, NC 4 289 262 (91%) 103 (39%) 64 (24%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 76 4622 3568 (77%) 1902 (53%) 1349 (38%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 8 11958 8160 (68%) 1 (0%) 3828 (47%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 2 2612 2272 (87%) 524 (23%) 1748 (77%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 4 83 83 (100%) 20 (24%) 26 (31%)
Case Antiques, Inc. Knoxville 1 49 39 (80%) 14 (36%) 12 (31%)
Charlton Hall West Columbia, SC 4 264 229 (87%) 75 (33%) 82 (36%)
Christian Hesse Auktionen Hamburg 1 1349 890 (66%) 328 (37%) 562 (63%)
Christies London - King Street 10 1528 1126 (74%) 67 (6%) 581 (52%)
Christies London -South Kensington 11 1786 1343 (75%) 133 (10%) 649 (48%)
Christies New York 15 2962 2145 (72%) 263 (12%) 943 (44%)
Christies Paris 9 1395 985 (71%) 25 (3%) 549 (56%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 21 2220 1849 (83%) 1079 (58%) 344 (19%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 164 152 (93%) 17 (11%) 89 (59%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 14 3132 2652 (85%) 1303 (49%) 687 (26%)
Dallas Auction Gallery Dallas 1 50 46 (92%) 3 (7%) 30 (65%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 7 1775 1055 (59%) 132 (13%) 524 (50%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 9 927 858 (93%) 299 (35%) 225 (26%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 20 8429 6601 (78%) 1118 (17%) 3545 (54%)
Dorotheum Vienna 13 2977 2194 (74%) 52 (2%) 2070 (94%)
Doyle New York New York 9 1940 1684 (87%) 477 (28%) 775 (46%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 14 850 623 (73%) 330 (53%) 134 (22%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 6 3683 3095 (84%) 34 (1%) 1933 (62%)
Florence Number Nine Florence 3 37 9 (24%) 0 (0%) 9 (100%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 2 1049 728 (69%) 43 (6%) 431 (59%)
Freemans Philadelphia 5 1346 1127 (84%) 443 (39%) 340 (30%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 21 8913 5306 (60%) 2400 (45%) 2737 (52%)
Gateway Gallery Auction Chambersburg, PA 1 402 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Goldberg Coins and Collectibles LOS ANGELES 2 1477 1199 (81%) 657 (55%) 313 (26%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 2 1394 721 (52%) 0 (0%) 721 (100%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 7 337 183 (54%) 92 (50%) 29 (16%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 3 38 33 (87%) 6 (18%) 12 (36%)
Guernseys New York, NY 2 1311 1101 (84%) 1024 (93%) 32 (3%)
Hauff and Auvermann Berlin-Wilmersdorf 6 3037 1610 (53%) 432 (27%) 918 (57%)
Hauswedell and Nolte Hamburg 9 2603 1191 (46%) 520 (44%) 671 (56%)
Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions Bruxelles 4 1819 1387 (76%) 99 (7%) 1023 (74%)
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills 5 2868 2597 (91%) 523 (20%) 1819 (70%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 184 92074 88187 (96%) 908 (1%) 86665 (98%)
Heritage Auctions New York 8 5925 5029 (85%) 1242 (25%) 3131 (62%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 16 9277 6539 (70%) 4886 (75%) 593 (9%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 5 935 790 (84%) 189 (24%) 601 (76%)
Jacksons Auction Cedar Falls, Iowa 2 122 94 (77%) 30 (32%) 32 (34%)
James D Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 10 367 287 (78%) 137 (48%) 86 (30%)
Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 8 4742 2059 (43%) 909 (44%) 1150 (56%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 7 307 275 (90%) 110 (40%) 87 (32%)
Kedem Auction Jerusalem 7 2249 1725 (77%) 41 (2%) 1469 (85%)
Keno Auctions New York, NY 10021 1 13 12 (92%) 4 (33%) 4 (33%)
Kestenbaum and Company New York 3 726 491 (68%) 24 (5%) 269 (55%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Munich 2 188 132 (70%) 2 (2%) 124 (94%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 2 2214 1506 (68%) 597 (40%) 872 (58%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 19 6907 4809 (70%) 1412 (29%) 2620 (54%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 4 23651 10901 (46%) 6214 (57%) 4384 (40%)
Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 2 634 530 (84%) 365 (69%) 31 (6%)
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Gahanna 6 2363 1440 (61%) 825 (57%) 615 (43%)
Koller Auctions Geneve 2 124 75 (60%) 11 (15%) 25 (33%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 9 1882 1177 (63%) 43 (4%) 577 (49%)
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster 6 2869 2608 (91%) 0 (0%) 2608 (100%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 9 2182 1497 (69%) 526 (35%) 414 (28%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Denver, 1 58 58 (100%) 1 (2%) 56 (97%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 5 1246 1035 (83%) 77 (7%) 515 (50%)
Maître Bernard GALATEAU Limoges 4 2058 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 1853 1536 (83%) 49 (3%) 1022 (67%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 12 476 302 (63%) 167 (55%) 74 (25%)
Michael Treloar Adelaide SA 1 255 145 (57%) 90 (62%) 30 (21%)
Mid Hudson Auction Galleries Cornwall-on-Hudson, 7 1639 1171 (71%) 671 (57%) 164 (14%)
Minerva Auctions Roma Roma 4 1511 520 (34%) 5 (1%) 258 (50%)
Morton Casa de Subastas México DF CP 11000 13 3156 1229 (39%) 687 (56%) 262 (21%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 15 7239 7232 (100%) 4580 (63%) 725 (10%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 11 641 428 (67%) 139 (32%) 142 (33%)
Neret Minet and Tessier Paris 14 3252 1512 (46%) 550 (36%) 665 (44%)
Northeast Auctions Portsmouth 3 224 209 (93%) 49 (23%) 102 (49%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 3 2995 1620 (54%) 956 (59%) 664 (41%)
Old World Auctions Glen Allen 4 3203 2418 (75%) 2077 (86%) 209 (9%)
One Of Kind Collictibles Coral Gables 2 395 333 (84%) 0 (0%) 333 (100%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 7 657 479 (73%) 42 (9%) 324 (68%)
Paige Auction Portland 3 289 212 (73%) 147 (69%) 8 (4%)
Pandolfini Florence 2 231 154 (67%) 2 (1%) 123 (80%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 25 11509 7970 (69%) 4776 (60%) 1083 (14%)
PIASA Paris 13 1945 1071 (55%) 84 (8%) 615 (57%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 9 2009 1123 (56%) 135 (12%) 629 (56%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 4 137 103 (75%) 53 (51%) 16 (16%)
Potter and Potter Auctions Chicago 6 2867 2374 (83%) 950 (40%) 812 (34%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 11 6014 4467 (74%) 13 (0%) 2656 (59%)
Quagga Rare Books and Art Cape Town 2 38 16 (42%) 16 (100%) 0 (0%)
Quagga Rare Books and Art Stellenbosch 1 27 14 (52%) 13 (93%) 0 (0%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 5 1620 1416 (87%) 678 (48%) 255 (18%)
Rago Arts and Auctions Lambertville 10 883 693 (78%) 290 (42%) 195 (28%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 1 144 113 (78%) 22 (19%) 80 (71%)
Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 4 3744 2175 (58%) 93 (4%) 1310 (60%)
Rossini Paris 9 1067 517 (48%) 88 (17%) 257 (50%)
RR Auction Amherst 21 14639 9221 (63%) 1515 (16%) 3312 (36%)
Sheppards Irish Auction House Durrow 1 20 11 (55%) 4 (36%) 4 (36%)
Skinner Boston 11 1409 1102 (78%) 388 (35%) 401 (36%)
Skinner Marlborough 3 178 115 (65%) 58 (50%) 35 (30%)
Soler Y Llach Barcelona 1 1322 770 (58%) 3 (0%) 767 (100%)
Sothebys Hong Kong 1 31 26 (84%) 3 (12%) 12 (46%)
Sothebys London 19 3645 2689 (74%) 55 (2%) 1535 (57%)
Sothebys New York 17 3338 2588 (78%) 650 (25%) 1126 (44%)
Sothebys Paris 8 1226 937 (76%) 41 (4%) 537 (57%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 7 575 539 (94%) 200 (37%) 195 (36%)
Stockholms Auktionsverk Stockholm 3 858 668 (78%) 229 (34%) 332 (50%)
Swann Galleries New York 28 11158 8428 (76%) 2353 (28%) 2969 (35%)
Tajan Paris 9 1806 913 (51%) 126 (14%) 458 (50%)
The Written Word Autographs Tamworth, NH 1 966 395 (41%) 107 (27%) 73 (18%)
Tooveys West Sussex 21 1982 1704 (86%) 421 (25%) 681 (40%)
Treadway Toomey Auctions Oak Park 1 109 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 3 2363 1276 (54%) 554 (43%) 722 (57%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 8 3018 1500 (50%) 549 (37%) 481 (32%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 4 1761 1617 (92%) 393 (24%) 747 (46%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 8 218 169 (78%) 43 (25%) 53 (31%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 1 12 11 (92%) 1 (9%) 3 (27%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 1 1994 380 (19%) 184 (48%) 188 (49%)
Total 1353 422909 310369 (73%) 69028 (22%) 183825 (59%)

(2014) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 3 458 303 (66%) 194 (64%) 29 (10%)
Addison and Sarova Macon 3 434 412 (95%) 124 (30%) 141 (34%)
Ader PARIS 26 7109 4597 (65%) 313 (7%) 2853 (62%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 7 843 416 (49%) 26 (6%) 200 (48%)
Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 3 1620 1220 (75%) 10 (1%) 775 (64%)
Alaska Auction Anchorage 2 130 129 (99%) 0 (0%) 129 (100%)
ALDE Paris 17 4911 3205 (65%) 221 (7%) 2263 (71%)
Alexander Autographs Chesapeake City 2 1065 781 (73%) 379 (49%) 228 (29%)
Alexander Historical Auctions Chesapeake City 1 1565 1068 (68%) 478 (45%) 337 (32%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Cape Town 8 3433 1591 (46%) 1188 (75%) 281 (18%)
Arader Galleries New York City 2 364 285 (78%) 141 (49%) 80 (28%)
Arader Galleries Philadelphia, 1 186 172 (92%) 90 (52%) 46 (27%)
Archives International Auctions FORT LEE, 3 2194 1581 (72%) 620 (39%) 242 (15%)
Artcurial Paris 18 4254 2653 (62%) 121 (5%) 1609 (61%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 6 252 243 (96%) 162 (67%) 45 (19%)
Auctionata Berlin 2 212 66 (31%) 55 (83%) 2 (3%)
Audap and Mirabaud PARIS 4 758 587 (77%) 180 (31%) 287 (49%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 4 1433 1036 (72%) 218 (21%) 412 (40%)
Autographes Encheres Meinier 3 523 120 (23%) 3 (3%) 32 (27%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 7 1475 1091 (74%) 78 (7%) 771 (71%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 5 589 531 (90%) 100 (19%) 349 (66%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 15 3039 1416 (47%) 238 (17%) 839 (59%)
Blacksparrow Sun Valley 6 356 120 (34%) 36 (30%) 66 (55%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 55 15424 10989 (71%) 3514 (32%) 4585 (42%)
Bloomsbury Philobiblon Rome 1 587 435 (74%) 36 (8%) 399 (92%)
Bolaffi Ambassador Auctions Milan 2 1862 1389 (75%) 1 (0%) 1388 (100%)
Bolaffi Ambassador Auctions Turin 1 409 233 (57%) 0 (0%) 233 (100%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 3 166 140 (84%) 29 (21%) 57 (41%)
Bonhams London 22 3881 2785 (72%) 383 (14%) 1276 (46%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 2 382 314 (82%) 71 (23%) 145 (46%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 6 423 332 (78%) 104 (31%) 87 (26%)
Bonhams New York 12 2243 1393 (62%) 273 (20%) 533 (38%)
Bonhams Oxford 7 2515 2145 (85%) 572 (27%) 840 (39%)
Bonhams San Francisco 12 1371 1073 (78%) 191 (18%) 404 (38%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 90 3908 2919 (75%) 1462 (50%) 1198 (41%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 8 11723 7726 (66%) 0 (0%) 3613 (47%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 2 2285 1934 (85%) 518 (27%) 1405 (73%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 5 60 59 (98%) 15 (25%) 17 (29%)
Christies London - King Street 10 1500 1147 (76%) 24 (2%) 642 (56%)
Christies London -South Kensington 15 2699 1843 (68%) 103 (6%) 801 (43%)
Christies New York 21 2623 2174 (83%) 226 (10%) 1185 (55%)
Christies Paris 9 1673 1224 (73%) 257 (21%) 608 (50%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 21 2634 2213 (84%) 1229 (56%) 445 (20%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 125 116 (93%) 17 (15%) 78 (67%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 19 3642 3129 (86%) 1741 (56%) 776 (25%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 6 1235 794 (64%) 101 (13%) 420 (53%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 9 634 623 (98%) 151 (24%) 370 (59%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 22 7936 6295 (79%) 815 (13%) 3568 (57%)
Dorotheum Vienna 14 2916 2203 (76%) 208 (9%) 1950 (89%)
Doyle New York New York 13 1730 1562 (90%) 350 (22%) 830 (53%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 15 891 572 (64%) 377 (66%) 90 (16%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 8 5972 5018 (84%) 58 (1%) 3014 (60%)
Florence Number Nine Florence 2 12 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Kilkenny 2 1351 984 (73%) 124 (13%) 547 (56%)
Freemans Philadelphia 8 1778 1495 (84%) 442 (30%) 650 (43%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 19 8761 4803 (55%) 1917 (40%) 2708 (56%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 5 1626 618 (38%) 0 (0%) 618 (100%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 8 444 238 (54%) 114 (48%) 46 (19%)
Grogan and Company Dedham 5 140 123 (88%) 36 (29%) 52 (42%)
Guernseys New York, NY 1 256 137 (54%) 47 (34%) 58 (42%)
Guillaumot Richard Villefranche sur Saône 4 934 332 (36%) 70 (21%) 176 (53%)
Hauff and Auvermann Berlin-Wilmersdorf 9 4781 2568 (54%) 1358 (53%) 1210 (47%)
Hauswedell and Nolte Hamburg 7 2675 1329 (50%) 504 (38%) 825 (62%)
Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions Bruxelles 4 1815 1416 (78%) 114 (8%) 1034 (73%)
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills 3 1569 1399 (89%) 0 (0%) 1399 (100%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 188 96907 91146 (94%) 2041 (2%) 87762 (96%)
Heritage Auctions New York 7 5443 4962 (91%) 534 (11%) 4244 (86%)
Holabird Kagin Americana Reno 3 1462 836 (57%) 573 (69%) 51 (6%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 6 1202 966 (80%) 334 (35%) 632 (65%)
James D Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 5 421 357 (85%) 134 (38%) 122 (34%)
Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 7 4836 2092 (43%) 807 (39%) 1088 (52%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 3 397 363 (91%) 180 (50%) 96 (26%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 1 434 363 (84%) 35 (10%) 229 (63%)
Kedem Auction Jerusalem 8 2008 1451 (72%) 176 (12%) 847 (58%)
Keno Auctions New York, NY 10021 2 6 6 (100%) 0 (0%) 4 (67%)
Kestenbaum and Company New York 3 917 437 (48%) 20 (5%) 191 (44%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 6 2696 1750 (65%) 601 (34%) 1084 (62%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 16 6400 4523 (71%) 979 (22%) 2685 (59%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 5 22721 10223 (45%) 6221 (61%) 3702 (36%)
Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 3 997 823 (83%) 530 (64%) 80 (10%)
Koller Auctions Geneve 2 58 32 (55%) 8 (25%) 13 (41%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 7 1710 1095 (64%) 61 (6%) 519 (47%)
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster 6 2844 2484 (87%) 0 (0%) 2484 (100%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 12 2667 2081 (78%) 658 (32%) 638 (31%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Denver, 1 58 45 (78%) 13 (29%) 15 (33%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 6 1344 1101 (82%) 158 (14%) 513 (47%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 1916 1421 (74%) 178 (13%) 750 (53%)
Michaans Auctions Alameda, CA 2 110 70 (64%) 48 (69%) 11 (16%)
Mid Hudson Auction Galleries Cornwall-on-Hudson, 2 264 209 (79%) 96 (46%) 77 (37%)
Minerva Auctions Roma Roma 6 2283 1110 (49%) 20 (2%) 630 (57%)
Morton Casa de Subastas México DF CP 11000 11 3348 1420 (42%) 818 (58%) 389 (27%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 15 7130 7091 (99%) 4253 (60%) 630 (9%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 6 324 215 (66%) 85 (40%) 60 (28%)
Neret Minet and Tessier Paris 15 5163 2891 (56%) 1021 (35%) 1354 (47%)
Northeast Auctions Portsmouth 4 442 307 (69%) 114 (37%) 109 (36%)
Nosbüsch & Stucke Berlin 2 1987 883 (44%) 499 (57%) 384 (43%)
Old World Auctions Glen Allen 4 3143 2446 (78%) 2030 (83%) 239 (10%)
One Of Kind Collictibles Coral Gables 1 272 200 (74%) 0 (0%) 200 (100%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 12 1081 864 (80%) 54 (6%) 679 (79%)
Paige Auction Portland 5 272 245 (90%) 99 (40%) 54 (22%)
Pandolfini Florence 2 515 246 (48%) 13 (5%) 127 (52%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 26 11580 7893 (68%) 4898 (62%) 1251 (16%)
Peter Arnold Prahran VIC 1 328 258 (79%) 0 (0%) 154 (60%)
PIASA Paris 8 1721 985 (57%) 77 (8%) 714 (72%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 7 1245 830 (67%) 69 (8%) 509 (61%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 2 42 31 (74%) 14 (45%) 12 (39%)
Poulin Antiques Auctions Fairfield 1 582 531 (91%) 367 (69%) 93 (18%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 12 4035 2606 (65%) 11 (0%) 1285 (49%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 5 2038 1539 (76%) 740 (48%) 369 (24%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 5 1711 1631 (95%) 450 (28%) 861 (53%)
Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 2 2306 1590 (69%) 111 (7%) 1045 (66%)
Rossini Paris 9 995 496 (50%) 137 (28%) 213 (43%)
RR Auction Amherst 22 17277 11250 (65%) 1297 (12%) 5244 (47%)
Sheppards Irish Auction House Durrow 1 244 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Skinner Bolton 1 120 98 (82%) 46 (47%) 30 (31%)
Skinner Boston 12 1842 1460 (79%) 534 (37%) 549 (38%)
Skinner Marlborough 6 197 156 (79%) 91 (58%) 35 (22%)
Sothebys London 22 3330 2447 (73%) 73 (3%) 1441 (59%)
Sothebys New York 16 2325 1740 (75%) 225 (13%) 839 (48%)
Sothebys Paris 10 1417 1034 (73%) 70 (7%) 561 (54%)
Spink Shreves Galleries Dallas 2 1349 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 7 345 337 (98%) 117 (35%) 136 (40%)
Swann Galleries New York 35 11997 9175 (76%) 2473 (27%) 3408 (37%)
Tajan Paris 6 2072 1095 (53%) 73 (7%) 598 (55%)
Tooveys West Sussex 20 1612 1404 (87%) 279 (20%) 660 (47%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 3 2348 1247 (53%) 549 (44%) 698 (56%)
Vermot de Pas Paris 9 4442 1965 (44%) 699 (36%) 718 (37%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 2 973 905 (93%) 354 (39%) 359 (40%)
Webbs Auckland 1 104 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Winter Associates Plainville, CT 7 160 124 (78%) 53 (43%) 21 (17%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 3 162 112 (69%) 16 (14%) 50 (45%)
Zisska and Lacher Munich 1 2084 1636 (79%) 687 (42%) 908 (56%)
Zisska and Schauer Munich 4 1948 1371 (70%) 591 (43%) 736 (54%)
Total 1292 413503 304544 (74%) 61019 (20%) 188485 (62%)

(2013) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 2 988 662 (67%) 348 (53%) 163 (25%)
Addison and Sarova Macon 3 669 288 (43%) 110 (38%) 75 (26%)
Ader PARIS 29 6396 4237 (66%) 591 (14%) 2264 (53%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 12 1685 964 (57%) 143 (15%) 475 (49%)
Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 3 1761 1353 (77%) 10 (1%) 859 (63%)
ALDE Paris 16 5509 3497 (63%) 321 (9%) 2033 (58%)
Alexander Autographs Chesapeake City 3 1666 1296 (78%) 442 (34%) 511 (39%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Laguna Beach 10 3409 1612 (47%) 1183 (73%) 283 (18%)
Archives International Auctions FORT LEE, 2 1574 1531 (97%) 791 (52%) 206 (13%)
Artcurial Paris 27 4715 3201 (68%) 140 (4%) 1990 (62%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 6 475 468 (99%) 250 (53%) 82 (18%)
Audap and Mirabaud PARIS 6 746 566 (76%) 147 (26%) 294 (52%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 3 1662 1341 (81%) 319 (24%) 459 (34%)
Autographes Encheres Meinier 5 675 201 (30%) 10 (5%) 166 (83%)
Auxerre Encheres Estimations AUXERRE 1 411 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Baltimore Book Auction Baltimore 1 303 237 (78%) 65 (27%) 70 (30%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Exeter 3 145 102 (70%) 15 (15%) 60 (59%)
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood Honiton 1 735 552 (75%) 67 (12%) 244 (44%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 2 162 143 (88%) 27 (19%) 86 (60%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 2 518 351 (68%) 108 (31%) 148 (42%)
Blacksparrow Sun Valley 4 634 84 (13%) 36 (43%) 15 (18%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 41 15809 11216 (71%) 3236 (29%) 4375 (39%)
Bolaffi Ambassador Auctions Turin 1 756 497 (66%) 1 (0%) 494 (99%)
Bonhams Brockenhurst, Beaulieu, 1 73 62 (85%) 13 (21%) 33 (53%)
Bonhams Chester 4 403 308 (76%) 125 (41%) 96 (31%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 4 226 186 (82%) 36 (19%) 100 (54%)
Bonhams London 14 3241 2264 (70%) 216 (10%) 1098 (49%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 7 618 464 (75%) 290 (63%) 68 (15%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 1 14 10 (71%) 8 (80%) 0 (0%)
Bonhams New York 9 1881 1093 (58%) 260 (24%) 367 (34%)
Bonhams Oxford 7 2566 2213 (86%) 537 (24%) 1038 (47%)
Bonhams San Francisco 17 2403 1908 (79%) 608 (32%) 659 (35%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 75 3651 2974 (81%) 1361 (46%) 1294 (44%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 8 11048 7495 (68%) 0 (0%) 3633 (48%)
Burgersdijk and Niermans Leiden 2 2597 2118 (82%) 524 (25%) 1594 (75%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 2 23 23 (100%) 0 (0%) 23 (100%)
Castner Auction Branchville 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Christies London - King Street 12 1265 898 (71%) 29 (3%) 377 (42%)
Christies London -South Kensington 12 2119 1537 (73%) 84 (5%) 754 (49%)
Christies New York 28 3593 2808 (78%) 258 (9%) 1397 (50%)
Christies Paris 8 975 735 (75%) 96 (13%) 346 (47%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 16 1382 1151 (83%) 678 (59%) 191 (17%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 2 147 118 (80%) 31 (26%) 68 (58%)
Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris 8 1414 1028 (73%) 111 (11%) 622 (61%)
Cottone Geneseo 2 35 32 (91%) 8 (25%) 18 (56%)
Coutau Begarie PARIS. 5 1698 1265 (75%) 539 (43%) 364 (29%)
Cowans Auctions Cincinnati 11 2477 2042 (82%) 1066 (52%) 537 (26%)
De Baecque and Associes Lyon 10 1488 1042 (70%) 202 (19%) 517 (50%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 4 265 236 (89%) 75 (32%) 84 (36%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Gloucestershire 20 8177 6748 (83%) 804 (12%) 3962 (59%)
Dorotheum Vienna 18 3250 2368 (73%) 71 (3%) 2208 (93%)
Dorothy Sloan Rare Books Austin 1 244 140 (57%) 1 (1%) 34 (24%)
Doyle New York New York 10 1878 1474 (78%) 421 (29%) 636 (43%)
Eldreds East Dennis, 13 908 631 (69%) 398 (63%) 119 (19%)
Era Enchères Villefranche sur Saône 9 1331 824 (62%) 318 (39%) 322 (39%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 10 6242 5175 (83%) 81 (2%) 3057 (59%)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Castlecomer, 1 841 514 (61%) 81 (16%) 242 (47%)
Freemans Philadelphia 9 2422 2055 (85%) 724 (35%) 768 (37%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 21 9313 5278 (57%) 2018 (38%) 3031 (57%)
Gonnelli Casa DAste Firenze 5 1204 649 (54%) 0 (0%) 338 (52%)
Grays Auctioneers Cleveland, 7 589 397 (67%) 174 (44%) 103 (26%)
Guernseys New York, NY 5 1735 1556 (90%) 829 (53%) 403 (26%)
Hauff and Auvermann Berlin-Wilmersdorf 10 6689 3634 (54%) 2006 (55%) 1628 (45%)
Hauswedell and Nolte Hamburg 1 1321 629 (48%) 341 (54%) 288 (46%)
Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions Bruxelles 5 1776 1465 (82%) 110 (8%) 1091 (74%)
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills 5 5721 5566 (97%) 738 (13%) 4384 (79%)
Heritage Auctions Dallas 113 46190 42942 (93%) 3964 (9%) 37604 (88%)
Heritage Auctions New York 4 2050 1971 (96%) 75 (4%) 1827 (93%)
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Berlin 1 1114 919 (83%) 208 (23%) 711 (77%)
James D Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 10 360 296 (82%) 125 (42%) 108 (36%)
Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 7 4375 1717 (39%) 559 (33%) 964 (56%)
JMW Auction Gallery Kingston 1 555 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 6 2246 1428 (64%) 794 (56%) 407 (28%)
John Nicholson Fine Art Auctioneer Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey 1 417 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 5 1565 952 (61%) 130 (14%) 542 (57%)
Kestenbaum and Company New York 3 851 573 (67%) 33 (6%) 306 (53%)
Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hamburg 7 3340 2060 (62%) 689 (33%) 1331 (65%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 19 7431 5235 (70%) 1023 (20%) 3172 (61%)
Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 5 23239 11071 (48%) 6730 (61%) 4067 (37%)
Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 2 658 510 (78%) 329 (65%) 33 (6%)
Koller Auctions Zurich 9 1905 1140 (60%) 55 (5%) 574 (50%)
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster 3 1384 1173 (85%) 0 (0%) 1173 (100%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 7 1709 1412 (83%) 365 (26%) 470 (33%)
Librairie Loeb Larocque Paris 1 249 175 (70%) 0 (0%) 175 (100%)
Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh 4 1793 1482 (83%) 213 (14%) 634 (43%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 2212 1611 (73%) 364 (23%) 678 (42%)
Minerva Auctions Roma Roma 8 2231 1187 (53%) 45 (4%) 717 (60%)
Morton Casa de Subastas México DF 1 202 118 (58%) 80 (68%) 19 (16%)
Morton Casa de Subastas México DF CP 11000 8 2190 845 (39%) 504 (60%) 218 (26%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 22 6437 6429 (100%) 3869 (60%) 498 (8%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 5 476 343 (72%) 126 (37%) 100 (29%)
Neret Minet and Tessier Paris 17 5666 2567 (45%) 641 (25%) 1320 (51%)
Northeast Auctions Portsmouth 4 264 238 (90%) 64 (27%) 120 (50%)
Old World Auctions Glen Allen 5 3652 2531 (69%) 2103 (83%) 217 (9%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 4 405 305 (75%) 11 (4%) 230 (75%)
Paige Auction Portland 1 350 264 (75%) 0 (0%) 264 (100%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 26 10527 6697 (64%) 4711 (70%) 869 (13%)
PIASA Paris 21 3325 2656 (80%) 481 (18%) 1406 (53%)
Pierre Berge and Associes Paris 10 1638 1121 (68%) 69 (6%) 691 (62%)
Potomack Company Alexandria 1 66 39 (59%) 18 (46%) 9 (23%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 7 2367 1777 (75%) 7 (0%) 776 (44%)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts Cleveland 1 388 346 (89%) 191 (55%) 78 (23%)
Robert Siegel Galleries New York 3 1355 1293 (95%) 419 (32%) 576 (45%)
Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 3 3791 2445 (64%) 239 (10%) 1503 (61%)
Rossini Paris 6 893 621 (70%) 94 (15%) 342 (55%)
RR Auction Amherst 19 23399 15718 (67%) 997 (6%) 9594 (61%)
Rupert Toovey and Co West Sussex 19 1698 1461 (86%) 213 (15%) 787 (54%)
Skinner Boston 11 2193 1897 (87%) 765 (40%) 581 (31%)
Sothebys Hong Kong 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Sothebys London 21 2829 1884 (67%) 119 (6%) 916 (49%)
Sothebys New York 14 2053 1522 (74%) 202 (13%) 653 (43%)
Sothebys Paris 12 2332 1842 (79%) 168 (9%) 1152 (63%)
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Hudson 4 603 587 (97%) 136 (23%) 351 (60%)
Swann Galleries New York 34 11208 8563 (76%) 2624 (31%) 3045 (36%)
Tajan Paris 9 2456 1240 (50%) 93 (8%) 681 (55%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 1 448 112 (25%) 105 (94%) 4 (4%)
Venator and Hanstein Köln 4 2584 1288 (50%) 507 (39%) 759 (59%)
Waverly Auctions Falls Church 6 1910 1727 (90%) 586 (34%) 753 (44%)
Zisska and Schauer Munich 2 4437 3448 (78%) 1440 (42%) 2008 (58%)
Total 1124 358662 257290 (72%) 61913 (24%) 139257 (54%)

(2012) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Addison and Sarova Macon 4 563 388 (69%) 252 (65%) 46 (12%)
Ader PARIS 22 5235 3460 (66%) 290 (8%) 2151 (62%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 7 1418 911 (64%) 171 (19%) 493 (54%)
Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 3 1939 1636 (84%) 16 (1%) 1064 (65%)
ALDE Paris 23 5144 3226 (63%) 218 (7%) 1806 (56%)
Alexander Autographs, Inc. Stamford 3 2788 1778 (64%) 787 (44%) 512 (29%)
Amsterdam Book Auctions Amsterdam 2 993 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Antiquarian Auctions Constantia (Cape Town) 3 1437 587 (41%) 430 (73%) 89 (15%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Laguna Beach 5 1904 880 (46%) 677 (77%) 151 (17%)
Archives International Auctions FORT LEE, 3 2533 1275 (50%) 572 (45%) 229 (18%)
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.Tajan Paris 18 4052 2893 (71%) 138 (5%) 1823 (63%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 3 274 266 (97%) 132 (50%) 75 (28%)
Audap & Mirabaud PARIS 3 383 299 (78%) 44 (15%) 205 (69%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 3 1149 942 (82%) 200 (21%) 392 (42%)
AUXERRE ENCHERES - AUXERRE ESTIMATIONS AUXERRE 1 669 521 (78%) 96 (18%) 264 (51%)
Binoche et Giquello rue La Boetie, Paris 1 321 182 (57%) 22 (12%) 101 (55%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 47 16414 11375 (69%) 3376 (30%) 4448 (39%)
Bloomsbury Auctions Rome 5 487 244 (50%) 5 (2%) 143 (59%)
Bolaffi S.p.A. Turin 1 758 403 (53%) 0 (0%) 403 (100%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 6 399 329 (82%) 115 (35%) 119 (36%)
Bonhams London 19 4409 3388 (77%) 1090 (32%) 1208 (36%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 5 692 509 (74%) 225 (44%) 161 (32%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 6 316 221 (70%) 157 (71%) 26 (12%)
Bonhams New York 13 2942 1720 (58%) 487 (28%) 534 (31%)
Bonhams Oxford 5 3120 2772 (89%) 926 (33%) 1059 (38%)
Bonhams San Francisco 11 2161 1556 (72%) 528 (34%) 553 (36%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 37 2898 2492 (86%) 1077 (43%) 1151 (46%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 11 11969 7698 (64%) 4 (0%) 3625 (47%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 2 2453 2082 (85%) 424 (20%) 1658 (80%)
Carlsen Gallery Greenville, NY 2 67 66 (99%) 10 (15%) 4 (6%)
Christies London - King Street 13 1332 1029 (77%) 121 (12%) 485 (47%)
Christies London -South Kensington 19 3584 2563 (72%) 213 (8%) 1232 (48%)
Christies New York 18 3434 2739 (80%) 290 (11%) 1273 (46%)
Christies Paris 10 1126 888 (79%) 93 (10%) 531 (60%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 10 1084 773 (71%) 472 (61%) 101 (13%)
Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris 4 937 561 (60%) 44 (8%) 321 (57%)
Cottone Geneseo 2 41 24 (59%) 6 (25%) 11 (46%)
Coutau-Begarie PARIS. 3 1127 581 (52%) 104 (18%) 407 (70%)
Cowan's Auctions, Inc Cincinnati 15 2360 1933 (82%) 1124 (58%) 443 (23%)
De Baecque & Associes Lyon 4 581 355 (61%) 27 (8%) 191 (54%)
Delvaux Paris 2 348 249 (72%) 46 (18%) 150 (60%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 11 3060 2848 (93%) 665 (23%) 1185 (42%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 24 10236 8545 (83%) 1028 (12%) 5118 (60%)
Dorotheum Vienna 16 3606 2880 (80%) 58 (2%) 2660 (92%)
Doyle New York New York 7 1564 1324 (85%) 324 (24%) 606 (46%)
Eldred's East Dennis, 10 1412 977 (69%) 589 (60%) 190 (19%)
ERA Encheres Villefranche sur Saone 6 751 631 (84%) 127 (20%) 314 (50%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 10 6580 5578 (85%) 78 (1%) 3456 (62%)
Freeman`s (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 11 1998 1747 (87%) 555 (32%) 717 (41%)
Galerias Louis C Morton S.A. de C.V. Mexico DF 1 327 98 (30%) 52 (53%) 21 (21%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 24 9663 5790 (60%) 2230 (39%) 3295 (57%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 3 325 167 (51%) 25 (15%) 79 (47%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 9 1713 1103 (64%) 85 (8%) 516 (47%)
GONNELLI Casa d'Aste Firenze 6 2171 1146 (53%) 1 (0%) 1145 (100%)
Gray`s auctioneers Cleveland, 3 275 174 (63%) 111 (64%) 27 (16%)
Guernsey's New York, NY 2 852 471 (55%) 346 (73%) 64 (14%)
Hauff and Auvermann Berlin-Wilmersdorf 10 6576 3612 (55%) 1806 (50%) 1806 (50%)
Henri Godts Books & Prints Auctions Bruxelles 6 1795 1370 (76%) 164 (12%) 928 (68%)
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Beverly Hills 9 8173 7457 (91%) 2036 (27%) 4784 (64%)
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Dallas 72 30423 27662 (91%) 3280 (12%) 23481 (85%)
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) New York 5 3675 3320 (90%) 580 (17%) 2602 (78%)
James D. Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 1 83 56 (67%) 35 (63%) 7 (13%)
Jeschke - van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 4 1515 754 (50%) 335 (44%) 419 (56%)
JMW Auction Gallery Kingston 1 282 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 10 2943 1892 (64%) 377 (20%) 1090 (58%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 4 2657 1596 (60%) 646 (40%) 924 (58%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 15 5906 3998 (68%) 1186 (30%) 2012 (50%)
Kiefer - Buch- und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 5 24431 13034 (53%) 8300 (64%) 4734 (36%)
Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 6 1235 570 (46%) 365 (64%) 51 (9%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 5 1623 1375 (85%) 613 (45%) 430 (31%)
Librairie Loeb-Larocque Paris 2 356 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 6 1433 1218 (85%) 208 (17%) 573 (47%)
Map World Kent 2 109 5 (5%) 5 (100%) 0 (0%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 6 2230 1622 (73%) 254 (16%) 796 (49%)
Mealy`s Auctioneers Kilkenny 5 3269 1841 (56%) 354 (19%) 786 (43%)
Minerva Auctions Roma Roma 2 1005 416 (41%) 24 (6%) 213 (51%)
Morton Casa de Subastas Mexico DF 8 2053 987 (48%) 582 (59%) 229 (23%)
Morton Casa de Subastas Mexico DF CP 11000 2 346 168 (49%) 77 (46%) 52 (31%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 23 5803 5795 (100%) 3847 (66%) 343 (6%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 4 162 133 (82%) 51 (38%) 57 (43%)
Neret - Minet & Tessier Paris 14 4202 2516 (60%) 733 (29%) 1622 (64%)
Northeast Auctions Portsmouth 1 148 117 (79%) 35 (30%) 40 (34%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 4 3333 2334 (70%) 1868 (80%) 245 (11%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 5 827 512 (62%) 74 (14%) 309 (60%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 26 9519 6034 (63%) 4533 (75%) 575 (10%)
PIASA Paris 15 3046 1869 (61%) 187 (10%) 1108 (59%)
Pierre Berge & Associes Paris 5 1021 794 (78%) 22 (3%) 567 (71%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 6 1484 975 (66%) 2 (0%) 474 (49%)
Remy Le Fur & Associes PARIS 1 197 197 (100%) 22 (11%) 154 (78%)
Robert A. Siegel Galleries New York 1 5 4 (80%) 1 (25%) 1 (25%)
Rossini Paris 6 867 607 (70%) 125 (21%) 301 (50%)
RRAuction Amherst 2 168 136 (81%) 43 (32%) 70 (51%)
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex 21 1534 1247 (81%) 134 (11%) 701 (56%)
Skinner, Inc. Boston 6 1508 1259 (83%) 492 (39%) 440 (35%)
Sothebys London 15 2346 1584 (68%) 111 (7%) 748 (47%)
Sothebys New York 12 2646 1927 (73%) 302 (16%) 906 (47%)
Sothebys Paris 7 1234 846 (69%) 42 (5%) 420 (50%)
Stair Auctioneers & Appraisers Hudson 2 503 484 (96%) 216 (45%) 183 (38%)
Swann Galleries, Inc. New York 35 11310 8865 (78%) 2924 (33%) 3069 (35%)
Tajan Paris 9 1639 923 (56%) 99 (11%) 554 (60%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 4 4288 2813 (66%) 304 (11%) 1726 (61%)
Venator and Hanstein (Buch und Graphikauktionen) Koln 4 2587 1383 (53%) 632 (46%) 707 (51%)
Waddington`s Toronto 2 150 102 (68%) 78 (76%) 12 (12%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 1 304 284 (93%) 96 (34%) 123 (43%)
Webb's Auckland 1 546 526 (96%) 125 (24%) 400 (76%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 3 97 60 (62%) 9 (15%) 26 (43%)
Zisska & Schauer Munich 7 6523 4696 (72%) 1917 (41%) 2779 (59%)
Total 945 310489 221248 (71%) 61534 (28%) 113608 (51%)

(2011) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 2 886 191 (22%) 5 (3%) 102 (53%)
Ader PARIS 17 5104 3558 (70%) 345 (10%) 2153 (61%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 9 1337 818 (61%) 220 (27%) 336 (41%)
Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 4 1943 1729 (89%) 149 (9%) 1110 (64%)
ALDE Paris 21 5146 3485 (68%) 276 (8%) 2158 (62%)
Alexander Autographs, Inc. Stamford 3 2361 1585 (67%) 669 (42%) 541 (34%)
Antiquarian Auctions Constantia (Cape Town) 9 3044 1339 (44%) 719 (54%) 610 (46%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Laguna Beach 1 167 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Antique and Fine Arts Auctions Brisbane 4102 1 722 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.Tajan Paris 12 4253 2884 (68%) 80 (3%) 1746 (61%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 6 2820 2239 (79%) 653 (29%) 763 (34%)
AUXERRE ENCHERES - AUXERRE ESTIMATIONS AUXERRE 1 428 245 (57%) 39 (16%) 152 (62%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 30 12049 8860 (74%) 2478 (28%) 3751 (42%)
Bloomsbury Auctions Rome 6 1647 814 (49%) 20 (2%) 428 (53%)
Bonhams Chester 2 187 151 (81%) 42 (28%) 33 (22%)
Bonhams Dubai 1 85 55 (65%) 5 (9%) 16 (29%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 146 123 (84%) 33 (27%) 51 (41%)
Bonhams Knowle (Solihull) 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Bonhams London 12 2791 2085 (75%) 246 (12%) 963 (46%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 6 1360 1124 (83%) 394 (35%) 541 (48%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 5 261 203 (78%) 129 (64%) 32 (16%)
Bonhams New York 8 1865 1213 (65%) 267 (22%) 464 (38%)
Bonhams Oxford 6 3025 2689 (89%) 642 (24%) 1066 (40%)
Bonhams San Francisco 8 1383 1093 (79%) 239 (22%) 447 (41%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 10 1178 1020 (87%) 452 (44%) 445 (44%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 11 12403 7757 (63%) 0 (0%) 3585 (46%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 2 2977 2595 (87%) 530 (20%) 2065 (80%)
Castner`s Auction & Appraisal Service Branchville 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Christies London - King Street 7 660 469 (71%) 13 (3%) 234 (50%)
Christies London -South Kensington 13 3049 2143 (70%) 161 (8%) 1043 (49%)
Christies New York 19 3222 2606 (81%) 349 (13%) 1138 (44%)
Christies Paris 9 1214 999 (82%) 117 (12%) 571 (57%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 9 852 594 (70%) 411 (69%) 68 (11%)
Comic Connect New York City 1 100 99 (99%) 7 (7%) 92 (93%)
Coutau-Begarie PARIS. 5 1302 900 (69%) 151 (17%) 614 (68%)
Cowan's Auctions, Inc Cincinnati 14 2542 2265 (89%) 1242 (55%) 571 (25%)
Deauville Auction Deauville 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Dirk Soulis Auctions Lee's Summit 1 245 238 (97%) 0 (0%) 238 (100%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 22 8917 7113 (80%) 879 (12%) 4001 (56%)
Dorotheum Vienna 14 4415 3056 (69%) 122 (4%) 2868 (94%)
Doyle New York New York 8 1782 1422 (80%) 305 (21%) 803 (56%)
Eldred's East Dennis, 2 292 214 (73%) 142 (66%) 36 (17%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 10 5792 4765 (82%) 181 (4%) 2734 (57%)
Freeman`s (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 9 1946 1481 (76%) 531 (36%) 517 (35%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 24 10340 6143 (59%) 2925 (48%) 3107 (51%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 3 241 120 (50%) 18 (15%) 49 (41%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 6 943 607 (64%) 85 (14%) 286 (47%)
GONNELLI Casa d'Aste Firenze 1 1353 853 (63%) 0 (0%) 853 (100%)
Gray`s auctioneers Cleveland, 2 165 81 (49%) 35 (43%) 16 (20%)
Hauff and Auvermann Berlin-Wilmersdorf 7 6433 3348 (52%) 1773 (53%) 1575 (47%)
Henri Godts Books & Prints Auctions Bruxelles 4 1934 1543 (80%) 149 (10%) 1105 (72%)
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Beverly Hills 2 1028 886 (86%) 434 (49%) 265 (30%)
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Dallas 4 2240 1881 (84%) 999 (53%) 374 (20%)
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) New York 3 3100 2775 (90%) 735 (26%) 1697 (61%)
Jeschke - van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 4 1091 544 (50%) 264 (49%) 280 (51%)
JMW Auction Gallery Kingston 2 1233 1187 (96%) 856 (72%) 112 (9%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 7 2037 1326 (65%) 281 (21%) 696 (52%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 4 2963 1933 (65%) 719 (37%) 1180 (61%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 14 6225 4191 (67%) 1357 (32%) 2059 (49%)
Kiefer - Buch- und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 9 26118 11352 (43%) 6876 (61%) 4476 (39%)
Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 3 916 747 (82%) 485 (65%) 68 (9%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 2 1004 801 (80%) 415 (52%) 225 (28%)
Librairie Loeb-Larocque Paris 1 344 181 (53%) 38 (21%) 72 (40%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 3 1339 1072 (80%) 133 (12%) 506 (47%)
Map World Kent 1 75 3 (4%) 1 (33%) 2 (67%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 5 1725 1374 (80%) 223 (16%) 711 (52%)
Mealy`s Auctioneers Kilkenny 6 3116 1964 (63%) 241 (12%) 1052 (54%)
Michael Treloar Adelaide SA 1 92 32 (35%) 16 (50%) 10 (31%)
Morton Casa de Subastas Mexico DF 7 1257 543 (43%) 305 (56%) 150 (28%)
Morton Casa de Subastas Mexico DF CP 11000 2 566 262 (46%) 118 (45%) 97 (37%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 16 5394 5367 (100%) 3777 (70%) 336 (6%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 6 439 328 (75%) 190 (58%) 73 (22%)
Neret - Minet & Tessier Paris 12 2190 1244 (57%) 402 (32%) 536 (43%)
New England Auctions Sunderland 2 233 220 (94%) 99 (45%) 55 (25%)
OGER et CAMPER Paris 2 141 111 (79%) 61 (55%) 45 (41%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 5 3465 2456 (71%) 1874 (76%) 304 (12%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 4 693 548 (79%) 44 (8%) 413 (75%)
Paige Auction Portland 1 30 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 27 8843 5939 (67%) 4090 (69%) 736 (12%)
PIASA Paris 20 3504 2242 (64%) 178 (8%) 1543 (69%)
Poulin Antiques & Auctions Fairfield 1 495 424 (86%) 150 (35%) 183 (43%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 5 3018 2241 (74%) 31 (1%) 1163 (52%)
Reiss and Sohn Konigstein 5 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Rossini Paris 3 497 256 (52%) 96 (38%) 63 (25%)
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex 6 888 740 (83%) 68 (9%) 465 (63%)
Skinner, Inc. Boston 3 1363 1190 (87%) 473 (40%) 439 (37%)
Sothebys London 10 1854 1282 (69%) 46 (4%) 647 (50%)
Sothebys New York 11 2095 1527 (73%) 270 (18%) 695 (46%)
Sothebys Paris 6 787 521 (66%) 12 (2%) 270 (52%)
Swann Galleries, Inc. New York 30 9642 7516 (78%) 2485 (33%) 2572 (34%)
Tajan Paris 5 828 613 (74%) 56 (9%) 414 (68%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 4 4337 2984 (69%) 165 (6%) 1972 (66%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 1 115 84 (73%) 51 (61%) 16 (19%)
Venator and Hanstein (Buch und Graphikauktionen) Koln 3 4579 2676 (58%) 1184 (44%) 1389 (52%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 1 0 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Zisska & Schauer Munich 5 5634 4426 (79%) 1782 (40%) 2644 (60%)
Total 663 244840 166903 (68%) 50308 (30%) 77082 (46%)

(2010) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions Amsterdam 1 743 294 (40%) 8 (3%) 114 (39%)
Ader PARIS 3 512 389 (76%) 83 (21%) 219 (56%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 3 491 351 (71%) 59 (17%) 199 (57%)
Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 3 1848 1517 (82%) 134 (9%) 950 (63%)
ALDE Paris 18 6609 4475 (68%) 328 (7%) 2643 (59%)
Alexander Autographs, Inc. Stamford 2 1569 1072 (68%) 412 (38%) 324 (30%)
Amsterdam Book Auctions Amsterdam 1 1600 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Antiquarian Auctions Constantia (Cape Town) 8 3239 1394 (43%) 998 (72%) 240 (17%)
AntiquarianAuctions.com Laguna Beach 1 227 14 (6%) 12 (86%) 1 (7%)
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.Tajan Paris 5 2292 1542 (67%) 117 (8%) 983 (64%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 3 1480 1274 (86%) 249 (20%) 555 (44%)
AUXERRE ENCHERES - AUXERRE ESTIMATIONS AUXERRE 1 500 402 (80%) 31 (8%) 303 (75%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 33 14999 11370 (76%) 2678 (24%) 5497 (48%)
Bloomsbury Auctions New York 14 3854 2138 (55%) 833 (39%) 545 (25%)
Bloomsbury Auctions Rome 6 1486 632 (43%) 45 (7%) 357 (56%)
Bolaffi S.p.A. Turin 1 359 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 163 108 (66%) 38 (35%) 41 (38%)
Bonhams London 9 1938 1356 (70%) 92 (7%) 631 (47%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 6 476 361 (76%) 134 (37%) 126 (35%)
Bonhams New York 5 1444 1113 (77%) 357 (32%) 426 (38%)
Bonhams Oxford 5 2824 2435 (86%) 557 (23%) 904 (37%)
Bonhams San Francisco 6 1781 1156 (65%) 480 (42%) 291 (25%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 6 1326 1205 (91%) 490 (41%) 571 (47%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 7 9407 5844 (62%) 0 (0%) 2819 (48%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 4 3063 2711 (89%) 406 (15%) 2305 (85%)
Christie's London - King Street 10 1244 900 (72%) 46 (5%) 426 (47%)
Christie's London -South Kensington 14 3601 2756 (77%) 211 (8%) 1477 (54%)
Christie's New York 12 2929 2291 (78%) 295 (13%) 1022 (45%)
Christie's Paris 4 502 397 (79%) 40 (10%) 231 (58%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 4 276 222 (80%) 141 (64%) 27 (12%)
Cowan's Auctions, Inc Cincinnati 6 1509 1111 (74%) 600 (54%) 260 (23%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 20 8868 6948 (78%) 921 (13%) 3867 (56%)
Dorotheum Vienna 4 1575 1144 (73%) 51 (4%) 1065 (93%)
Doyle New York New York 2 1080 994 (92%) 227 (23%) 517 (52%)
Ferraton Bruxelles 12 6684 5515 (83%) 104 (2%) 3240 (59%)
Freeman`s (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 4 1582 1282 (81%) 479 (37%) 462 (36%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 10 7768 4552 (59%) 2261 (50%) 2291 (50%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 2 110 75 (68%) 8 (11%) 25 (33%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 2 1653 1110 (67%) 121 (11%) 634 (57%)
GONNELLI Casa d'Aste Firenze 2 1229 931 (76%) 4 (0%) 927 (100%)
Gray`s auctioneers Cleveland, 2 272 194 (71%) 140 (72%) 11 (6%)
Hauff and Auvermann Berlin-Wilmersdorf 6 7879 4310 (55%) 2315 (54%) 1995 (46%)
Henri Godts Books & Prints Auctions Bruxelles 3 1331 1083 (81%) 78 (7%) 791 (73%)
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Beverly Hills 2 3451 2510 (73%) 429 (17%) 2081 (83%)
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Dallas 6 2969 2441 (82%) 1686 (69%) 586 (24%)
James D. Julia Auctioneers Fairfield 1 131 131 (100%) 9 (7%) 110 (84%)
Jeschke - van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH Berlin-Schoneberg 3 1572 886 (56%) 351 (40%) 535 (60%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 5 1356 946 (70%) 292 (31%) 527 (56%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 4 3325 1861 (56%) 702 (38%) 1115 (60%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 6 5074 3488 (69%) 992 (28%) 1845 (53%)
Kiefer - Buch- und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 13 25239 12353 (49%) 7299 (59%) 5054 (41%)
Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 2 552 493 (89%) 291 (59%) 43 (9%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 3 1241 1070 (86%) 263 (25%) 452 (42%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 2 779 646 (83%) 50 (8%) 358 (55%)
Map World Kent 2 308 44 (14%) 44 (100%) 0 (0%)
Marc van de Wiele Auctions Brugge 3 1495 1132 (76%) 105 (9%) 580 (51%)
Mealy`s Auctioneers Kilkenny 1 936 605 (65%) 63 (10%) 297 (49%)
Morton Casa de Subastas Mexico DF CP 11000 9 2410 1296 (54%) 626 (48%) 403 (31%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 15 4977 4966 (100%) 2911 (59%) 389 (8%)
Neal Auction Company New Orleans 3 209 178 (85%) 71 (40%) 51 (29%)
New England Auctions Sunderland 9 2164 2117 (98%) 870 (41%) 664 (31%)
OGER et CAMPER Paris 1 139 128 (92%) 32 (25%) 95 (74%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 4 3241 2479 (76%) 1724 (70%) 402 (16%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 25 8731 5891 (67%) 4147 (70%) 695 (12%)
PIASA Paris 13 3626 2504 (69%) 186 (7%) 1774 (71%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 2 1408 1078 (77%) 27 (3%) 508 (47%)
R. W. Olivers Worcester 1 550 542 (99%) 321 (59%) 166 (31%)
Reiss and Sohn Konigstein 4 4521 3275 (72%) 1596 (49%) 1679 (51%)
Rossini Paris 1 287 134 (47%) 29 (22%) 55 (41%)
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex 1 273 222 (81%) 72 (32%) 94 (42%)
Skinner, Inc. Bolton 1 696 540 (78%) 268 (50%) 147 (27%)
Sotheby`s London 13 1795 1021 (57%) 41 (4%) 461 (45%)
Sotheby`s Milan 1 21 18 (86%) 0 (0%) 13 (72%)
Sotheby`s New York 11 1473 1134 (77%) 312 (28%) 426 (38%)
Sotheby`s Paris 3 583 454 (78%) 21 (5%) 263 (58%)
Spink Shreves Galleries Dallas 1 1294 1293 (100%) 124 (10%) 1028 (80%)
Stair Auctioneers & Appraisers Hudson 1 163 101 (62%) 75 (74%) 13 (13%)
Swann Galleries New York 29 9927 7456 (75%) 2508 (34%) 2455 (33%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 5 4190 3124 (75%) 215 (7%) 2091 (67%)
Venator and Hanstein (Buch und Graphikauktionen) Koln 2 2391 1378 (58%) 661 (48%) 661 (48%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 1 198 172 (87%) 57 (33%) 68 (40%)
Total 481 218017 149075 (68%) 46053 (31%) 68496 (46%)

(2009) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Adams Amsterdam Book & Print Auctions B.V. Amsterdam 1 435 297 (68%) 72 (24%) 147 (49%)
Ader PARIS 4 1042 544 (52%) 49 (9%) 272 (50%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 1 154 91 (59%) 38 (42%) 32 (35%)
Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 2 1261 1082 (86%) 19 (2%) 723 (67%)
ALDE Paris 12 3554 2417 (68%) 186 (8%) 1545 (64%)
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.Tajan Paris 8 2313 1555 (67%) 89 (6%) 1053 (68%)
AuctionExplorerBooks.com Constantia (Cape Town) 8 3701 1436 (39%) 1071 (75%) 181 (13%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 4 2848 2630 (92%) 476 (18%) 1316 (50%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 1 406 370 (91%) 68 (18%) 242 (65%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 31 15806 11297 (71%) 3460 (31%) 4813 (43%)
Bloomsbury Auctions New York 15 4692 2907 (62%) 1134 (39%) 812 (28%)
Bloomsbury Auctions Rome 6 2366 894 (38%) 60 (7%) 483 (54%)
Bonhams Chester 1 105 82 (78%) 21 (26%) 24 (29%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 1 89 79 (89%) 10 (13%) 39 (49%)
Bonhams London 8 2044 1617 (79%) 186 (12%) 788 (49%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 1 511 337 (66%) 129 (38%) 95 (28%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 5 405 327 (81%) 118 (36%) 119 (36%)
Bonhams New York 4 1420 1071 (75%) 362 (34%) 380 (35%)
Bonhams Oxford 5 2902 2490 (86%) 530 (21%) 932 (37%)
Bonhams San Francisco 6 816 557 (68%) 171 (31%) 177 (32%)
Bonhams Trinity, Jersey 1 6 5 (83%) 1 (20%) 2 (40%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 10 1045 981 (94%) 263 (27%) 535 (55%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 8 11316 7138 (63%) 5 (0%) 3486 (49%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 4 3609 3135 (87%) 792 (25%) 2343 (75%)
Christie's London - King Street 6 914 651 (71%) 24 (4%) 293 (45%)
Christie's London -South Kensington 11 2200 1594 (72%) 139 (9%) 726 (46%)
Christie's New York 22 4182 3287 (79%) 784 (24%) 1314 (40%)
Christie's Paris 3 763 533 (70%) 85 (16%) 269 (50%)
Cottone Geneseo 1 39 39 (100%) 20 (51%) 6 (15%)
Cowan's Auctions, Inc Cincinnati 3 1497 1095 (73%) 552 (50%) 274 (25%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 18 8856 6848 (77%) 879 (13%) 3912 (57%)
Dorotheum Vienna 4 1600 1296 (81%) 0 (0%) 1296 (100%)
Dorothy Sloan- Rare Books, Inc. Austin 1 570 514 (90%) 5 (1%) 130 (25%)
Doyle New York New York 2 904 767 (85%) 208 (27%) 358 (47%)
Early American Rancho Santa Fe 1 265 104 (39%) 48 (46%) 14 (13%)
Freeman`s (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 3 1421 1202 (85%) 496 (41%) 357 (30%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 11 8121 4656 (57%) 2288 (49%) 2367 (51%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 3 497 341 (69%) 53 (16%) 205 (60%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 2 179 122 (68%) 10 (8%) 51 (42%)
Gallery at Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 3 929 868 (93%) 532 (61%) 91 (10%)
Gonnelli CASA D`ASTE Firenze 1 485 386 (80%) 0 (0%) 384 (99%)
Hauff and Auvermann Berlin-Wilmersdorf 4 4396 2038 (46%) 1035 (51%) 1003 (49%)
Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg 4 2600 1556 (60%) 542 (35%) 1014 (65%)
Heritage Auction Galleries Dallas 10 5362 3793 (71%) 2798 (74%) 393 (10%)
Jeschke - Hauff und Auvermann Berlin-Schoneberg 1 408 197 (48%) 96 (49%) 101 (51%)
JMW Auction Gallery Kingston 1 213 212 (100%) 142 (67%) 33 (16%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 5 1815 1052 (58%) 209 (20%) 610 (58%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 2 2945 1710 (58%) 757 (44%) 953 (56%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 6 4014 2462 (61%) 713 (29%) 640 (26%)
Kiefer - Buch- und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 15 19923 9868 (50%) 5749 (58%) 4119 (42%)
Le Libraire Alain Ferraton Bruxelles 11 6249 5254 (84%) 128 (2%) 3188 (61%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 3 798 674 (84%) 192 (28%) 214 (32%)
Librairie Henry Godts Bruxelles 5 2567 2123 (83%) 295 (14%) 1370 (65%)
Louis C. Morton Mexico DF CP 11000 9 2152 1027 (48%) 559 (54%) 298 (29%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 3 867 650 (75%) 75 (12%) 278 (43%)
Mealy`s Auctioneers Kilkenny 1 982 678 (69%) 94 (14%) 329 (49%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 9 3210 3206 (100%) 1774 (55%) 151 (5%)
New England Book Auctions Sunderland 11 2696 2653 (98%) 1211 (46%) 797 (30%)
OGER et CAMPER Paris 1 160 157 (98%) 40 (25%) 115 (73%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 4 3655 2629 (72%) 1809 (69%) 444 (17%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 24 7575 4356 (57%) 3345 (77%) 397 (9%)
PIASA Paris 16 5030 3421 (68%) 332 (10%) 2337 (68%)
Reiss and Sohn Konigstein 9 9050 5969 (66%) 2937 (49%) 3032 (51%)
Robert C. Eldred, Inc. East Dennis 3 286 200 (70%) 114 (57%) 44 (22%)
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex 1 298 212 (71%) 28 (13%) 91 (43%)
Scott J. Winslow Associates, Inc. Bedford, 3 2315 269 (12%) 192 (71%) 77 (29%)
Skinner, Inc. Bolton 1 631 529 (84%) 217 (41%) 191 (36%)
Sotheby`s London 13 2061 1327 (64%) 61 (5%) 658 (50%)
Sotheby`s Milan 1 19 17 (89%) 0 (0%) 10 (59%)
Sotheby`s New York 8 1647 1067 (65%) 174 (16%) 410 (38%)
Sotheby`s Paris 4 890 532 (60%) 34 (6%) 223 (42%)
Swann Galleries New York 28 9502 7007 (74%) 2264 (32%) 2300 (33%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 4 3958 2996 (76%) 246 (8%) 1903 (64%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 1 393 340 (87%) 179 (53%) 79 (23%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 1 88 66 (75%) 19 (29%) 22 (33%)
Zisska & Schauer Munich 4 2498 1870 (75%) 858 (46%) 1012 (54%)
Total 468 207521 139759 (67%) 44651 (32%) 61422 (44%)

(2008) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Aguttes Neuilly-sur-Seine 1 226 201 (89%) 68 (34%) 89 (44%)
Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 4 1947 1677 (86%) 178 (11%) 1103 (66%)
ALDE Paris 9 2756 1641 (60%) 85 (5%) 1043 (64%)
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.Tajan Paris 10 3961 2167 (55%) 185 (9%) 1347 (62%)
AuctionExplorerBooks.com Constantia (Cape Town) 8 3916 1677 (43%) 1221 (73%) 242 (14%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 6 3444 2987 (87%) 439 (15%) 1375 (46%)
AUXERRE ENCHERES - AUXERRE ESTIMATIONS AUXERRE 2 890 596 (67%) 69 (12%) 381 (64%)
Baltimore Book Auction Baltimore 2 846 726 (86%) 283 (39%) 211 (29%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 32 17317 12336 (71%) 3198 (26%) 5437 (44%)
Bloomsbury Auctions New York 16 5181 2817 (54%) 765 (27%) 955 (34%)
Bloomsbury Auctions Rome 6 2683 1093 (41%) 200 (18%) 523 (48%)
Bonhams Chester 1 127 101 (80%) 3 (3%) 75 (74%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 1 78 65 (83%) 19 (29%) 19 (29%)
Bonhams Knowle (Solihull) 2 1046 1007 (96%) 204 (20%) 516 (51%)
Bonhams London 9 3387 2570 (76%) 401 (16%) 1120 (44%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 4 853 590 (69%) 205 (35%) 162 (27%)
Bonhams New York 2 739 562 (76%) 137 (24%) 240 (43%)
Bonhams Oxford 2 1688 1520 (90%) 450 (30%) 483 (32%)
Bonhams San Francisco 7 1302 955 (73%) 268 (28%) 296 (31%)
Bonhams St Helier, Jersey 1 4 3 (75%) 0 (0%) 1 (33%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 10 1047 1011 (97%) 251 (25%) 556 (55%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 8 11125 7441 (67%) 2 (0%) 3826 (51%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 4 3131 2921 (93%) 494 (17%) 2427 (83%)
Castner`s Auction & Appraisal Service Branchville 1 29 29 (100%) 12 (41%) 10 (34%)
Christie's London - King Street 10 2070 1422 (69%) 99 (7%) 666 (47%)
Christie's London -South Kensington 16 4111 3007 (73%) 559 (19%) 1372 (46%)
Christie's New York 19 5306 4058 (76%) 652 (16%) 1813 (45%)
Christie's Paris 3 685 419 (61%) 94 (22%) 167 (40%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 2 73 69 (95%) 15 (22%) 26 (38%)
Coutau-Begarie PARIS. 2 518 441 (85%) 197 (45%) 184 (42%)
Cowan's Auctions, Inc Cincinnati 4 2556 2034 (80%) 1048 (52%) 530 (26%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 16 8582 6960 (81%) 784 (11%) 4097 (59%)
Dorotheum Vienna 3 1105 719 (65%) 0 (0%) 719 (100%)
Doyle New York New York 2 896 745 (83%) 175 (23%) 366 (49%)
Freeman's (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 3 1642 1383 (84%) 474 (34%) 446 (32%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 13 9223 5755 (62%) 2710 (47%) 3045 (53%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 3 664 438 (66%) 146 (33%) 141 (32%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 3 353 217 (61%) 27 (12%) 138 (64%)
Gallery at Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 1 326 260 (80%) 174 (67%) 27 (10%)
Hartung & Hartung Antiquariat - Auktionen MUNCHEN 2 3234 2428 (75%) 1044 (43%) 1292 (53%)
Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg 4 2663 1687 (63%) 585 (35%) 1102 (65%)
Heritage Auction Galleries Dallas 9 6287 4830 (77%) 3106 (64%) 940 (19%)
JMW Auction Gallery Kingston 1 106 106 (100%) 70 (66%) 14 (13%)
John McInnis Auctioneers Amesbury 1 1 1 (100%) 0 (0%) 1 (100%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 4 1365 780 (57%) 115 (15%) 552 (71%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 2 1653 1006 (61%) 51 (5%) 947 (94%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 7 4017 2768 (69%) 931 (34%) 867 (31%)
Kiefer - Buch- und Kunstauktionen 75172 Pforzheim 6 18790 10174 (54%) 5568 (55%) 4605 (45%)
Lawrences Auctioneers Somerset 1 339 296 (87%) 67 (23%) 140 (47%)
Le Libraire Alain Ferraton Bruxelles 9 4522 4036 (89%) 78 (2%) 2553 (63%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 3 1193 975 (82%) 586 (60%) 281 (29%)
Librairie Henry Godts Bruxelles 1 444 350 (79%) 24 (7%) 253 (72%)
Louis C. Morton Mexico DF CP 11000 6 1599 854 (53%) 400 (47%) 309 (36%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 2 937 716 (76%) 107 (15%) 314 (44%)
McLemore Auction Company Nashville 1 63 37 (59%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 4 1467 1463 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
New England Book Auctions Sunderland 11 2473 2448 (99%) 730 (30%) 1095 (45%)
OGER et SEMONT Paris 1 164 163 (99%) 25 (15%) 134 (82%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 4 3509 2869 (82%) 1963 (68%) 521 (18%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 1 88 83 (94%) 15 (18%) 68 (82%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 24 8540 5826 (68%) 3818 (66%) 759 (13%)
PIASA Paris 21 6721 5062 (75%) 755 (15%) 3307 (65%)
Profiles in History Calabasas Hills 3 2964 2963 (100%) 246 (8%) 2441 (82%)
Reiss and Sohn Konigstein 8 9362 5797 (62%) 2786 (48%) 2961 (51%)
Robert C. Eldred, Inc. East Dennis 3 201 162 (81%) 55 (34%) 71 (44%)
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex 3 749 566 (76%) 81 (14%) 260 (46%)
Scott J. Winslow Associates, Inc. Bedford, 3 1629 728 (45%) 384 (53%) 40 (5%)
Skinner, Inc. Bolton 4 1052 903 (86%) 430 (48%) 277 (31%)
Sotheby`s London 19 4101 2933 (72%) 83 (3%) 1652 (56%)
Sotheby`s New York 9 1296 980 (76%) 89 (9%) 492 (50%)
Sotheby`s Paris 3 571 386 (68%) 66 (17%) 185 (48%)
Swann Galleries New York 29 10662 8122 (76%) 2323 (29%) 3071 (38%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 4 4007 3013 (75%) 259 (9%) 1896 (63%)
Three Rivers Auction Company Washington 1 437 417 (95%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 6 1997 1818 (91%) 740 (41%) 630 (35%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 1 115 96 (83%) 20 (21%) 36 (38%)
Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich New York 1 355 169 (48%) 20 (12%) 149 (88%)
Zisska & Schauer Munich 6 5292 4208 (80%) 1639 (39%) 2569 (61%)
Total 476 220798 156839 (71%) 45550 (29%) 72958 (47%)

(2007) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Coutau-Begarie PARIS. 1 339 299 (88%) 83 (28%) 183 (61%)
Ader PARIS 4 955 669 (70%) 60 (9%) 454 (68%)
Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 4 2150 1887 (88%) 58 (3%) 1547 (82%)
ALDE Paris 9 2920 1814 (62%) 96 (5%) 1226 (68%)
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.Tajan Paris 15 4656 2740 (59%) 181 (7%) 1832 (67%)
Aspire Auctions Cleveland 1 155 151 (97%) 75 (50%) 32 (21%)
AuctionExplorerBooks.com Constantia (Cape Town) 8 3631 1479 (41%) 1046 (71%) 264 (18%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 5 2881 2587 (90%) 475 (18%) 1310 (51%)
AUXERRE ENCHERES - AUXERRE ESTIMATIONS AUXERRE 2 1233 918 (74%) 69 (8%) 652 (71%)
Baltimore Book Auction Baltimore 1 452 399 (88%) 162 (41%) 129 (32%)
Beaussant Lefevre Paris 3 656 606 (92%) 65 (11%) 431 (71%)
Bloomsbury Auctions London 29 15962 11969 (75%) 3314 (28%) 5664 (47%)
Bloomsbury Auctions New York 6 1861 1223 (66%) 154 (13%) 522 (43%)
Bloomsbury Auctions Rome 3 1263 517 (41%) 69 (13%) 298 (58%)
Boisgirard Provence-Cote D'Azur Nice 1 113 77 (68%) 8 (10%) 37 (48%)
Bonhams Bath 6 2608 2383 (91%) 767 (32%) 818 (34%)
Bonhams Chester 2 359 282 (79%) 24 (9%) 100 (35%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 3 463 370 (80%) 94 (25%) 149 (40%)
Bonhams Knowle (Solihull) 1 44 30 (68%) 1 (3%) 14 (47%)
Bonhams London 9 3574 3069 (86%) 487 (16%) 1571 (51%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 1 33 33 (100%) 8 (24%) 14 (42%)
Bonhams New York 2 671 468 (70%) 101 (22%) 186 (40%)
Bonhams Oxford 4 2042 1936 (95%) 481 (25%) 879 (45%)
Bonhams San Francisco 4 2173 1671 (77%) 395 (24%) 719 (43%)
Books by the Falls Derby 1 226 217 (96%) 162 (75%) 1 (0%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 16 1408 1357 (96%) 244 (18%) 863 (64%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 8 11455 7910 (69%) 1 (0%) 4270 (54%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 2 1682 1474 (88%) 340 (23%) 1103 (75%)
C. Downing Auctions, LLC Norwalk 1 293 129 (44%) 121 (94%) 1 (1%)
Christie's London - King Street 14 2858 2211 (77%) 178 (8%) 1205 (55%)
Christie's London -South Kensington 20 4513 3348 (74%) 782 (23%) 1282 (38%)
Christie's New York 20 5663 4705 (83%) 688 (15%) 2655 (56%)
Christie's Paris 3 899 639 (71%) 125 (20%) 331 (52%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 1 79 66 (84%) 23 (35%) 19 (29%)
Copley Fine Art Auctions Boston 1 109 105 (96%) 31 (30%) 49 (47%)
Cowan's Auctions, Inc Cincinnati 1 901 691 (77%) 250 (36%) 259 (37%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 15 8984 7374 (82%) 784 (11%) 4671 (63%)
Dorotheum Vienna 5 2134 1472 (69%) 59 (4%) 1367 (93%)
Dorothy Sloan- Rare Books, Inc. Austin 2 426 383 (90%) 5 (1%) 86 (22%)
Doyle New York New York 2 865 801 (93%) 193 (24%) 418 (52%)
F. Zisska & R. Kistner Munich 4 5631 4251 (75%) 1756 (41%) 2495 (59%)
Freeman's (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 3 1867 1714 (92%) 524 (31%) 722 (42%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 14 7916 4571 (58%) 2263 (50%) 2308 (50%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 1 263 128 (49%) 30 (23%) 64 (50%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 3 255 177 (69%) 17 (10%) 113 (64%)
Gallery at Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 3 918 864 (94%) 369 (43%) 249 (29%)
Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg 3 3286 2102 (64%) 764 (36%) 1338 (64%)
Heritage Auction Galleries Dallas 7 3603 2891 (80%) 1172 (41%) 1029 (36%)
Jeschke - Hauff und Auvermann Berlin-Schoneberg 2 2761 1612 (58%) 686 (43%) 926 (57%)
JMW Auction Gallery Kingston 1 228 216 (95%) 152 (70%) 23 (11%)
Johns' Western Gallery San Francisco 3 637 466 (73%) 203 (44%) 178 (38%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 3 852 533 (63%) 141 (26%) 318 (60%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 3 3522 2216 (63%) 530 (24%) 1601 (72%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 10 5164 3642 (71%) 1186 (33%) 1025 (28%)
Le Libraire Alain Ferraton Bruxelles 6 3327 2910 (87%) 72 (2%) 2532 (87%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 3 1718 1288 (75%) 659 (51%) 383 (30%)
Librairie Loeb-Larocque Paris 1 328 228 (70%) 44 (19%) 128 (56%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 3 1756 1496 (85%) 281 (19%) 735 (49%)
Mealy`s Auctioneers Kilkenny 1 964 810 (84%) 26 (3%) 610 (75%)
National Book Auctions Ithaca 2 182 180 (99%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Neret - Minet Paris 6 2135 995 (47%) 429 (43%) 272 (27%)
New England Book Auctions Sunderland 11 2528 2512 (99%) 749 (30%) 1180 (47%)
OGER et SEMONT Paris 2 307 255 (83%) 97 (38%) 120 (47%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 5 4614 3795 (82%) 2465 (65%) 761 (20%)
Paulo Adams Auction Service Wakefield 1 118 77 (65%) 67 (87%) 7 (9%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 25 8477 6831 (81%) 4229 (62%) 1094 (16%)
PIASA Paris 16 4845 3349 (69%) 325 (10%) 2261 (68%)
Reiss and Sohn Konigstein 6 9360 7017 (75%) 2842 (41%) 4175 (60%)
Robert C. Eldred, Inc. East Dennis 1 187 124 (66%) 75 (60%) 19 (15%)
Robert J. Brown Indianapolis 1 163 161 (99%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Rossini Paris 1 270 166 (61%) 6 (4%) 122 (73%)
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex 3 684 549 (80%) 68 (12%) 355 (65%)
Scott J. Winslow Associates, Inc. Bedford, 2 1067 458 (43%) 252 (55%) 97 (21%)
Skinner, Inc. Bolton 1 786 704 (90%) 270 (38%) 276 (39%)
Sotheby`s Amsterdam 1 309 168 (54%) 47 (28%) 52 (31%)
Sotheby`s London 17 3884 2822 (73%) 130 (5%) 1651 (59%)
Sotheby`s Milan 2 620 427 (69%) 27 (6%) 248 (58%)
Sotheby`s Munchen 1 255 232 (91%) 181 (78%) 37 (16%)
Sotheby`s New York 16 2869 2433 (85%) 212 (9%) 1540 (63%)
Sotheby`s Paris 4 1024 758 (74%) 143 (19%) 396 (52%)
Swaen.com Map Auction Indian Rocks Beach 3 3789 2006 (53%) 1457 (73%) 287 (14%)
Swann Galleries New York 29 9432 7752 (82%) 1852 (24%) 3335 (43%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 3 3900 3009 (77%) 177 (6%) 1876 (62%)
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Thomaston 1 844 596 (71%) 446 (75%) 78 (13%)
Valley Auctions LLC Dublin 1 453 450 (99%) 307 (68%) 34 (8%)
Waddington`s Toronto 1 373 247 (66%) 89 (36%) 86 (35%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 6 1968 1824 (93%) 616 (34%) 802 (44%)
William Parkinson Hinesburg 1 505 495 (98%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 2 265 213 (80%) 64 (30%) 77 (36%)
Total 481 204898 153179 (75%) 40756 (27%) 75626 (49%)

(2006) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 4 2139 1873 (88%) 40 (2%) 1783 (95%)
Alderfer Auction Company Hatfield 1 38 34 (89%) 19 (56%) 9 (26%)
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.Tajan Paris 5 2173 1339 (62%) 40 (3%) 1076 (80%)
AuctionExplorerBooks.com Constantia (Cape Town) 8 4441 1339 (30%) 950 (71%) 190 (14%)
Australian Book Auctions Armadale, 4 1347 1244 (92%) 143 (12%) 762 (61%)
AUXERRE ENCHERES - AUXERRE ESTIMATIONS AUXERRE 1 661 443 (67%) 47 (11%) 299 (67%)
Baltimore Book Auction Baltimore 3 1417 1248 (88%) 476 (38%) 432 (35%)
Bloomsbury Book Auctions London 32 17044 13465 (79%) 3980 (30%) 6237 (46%)
Boisgirard Provence-Cote D'Azur Nice 2 233 176 (76%) 14 (8%) 110 (63%)
Bonhams Bath 4 1633 1412 (86%) 305 (22%) 597 (42%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 3 774 609 (79%) 118 (19%) 259 (43%)
Bonhams Leeds 2 475 404 (85%) 40 (10%) 165 (41%)
Bonhams London 8 2575 1954 (76%) 213 (11%) 951 (49%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 11 1086 932 (86%) 338 (36%) 351 (38%)
Bonhams New York 2 418 284 (68%) 80 (28%) 106 (37%)
Bonhams Oxford 6 2842 2629 (93%) 573 (22%) 1306 (50%)
Bonhams San Francisco 5 2305 1763 (76%) 527 (30%) 663 (38%)
Books by the Falls Derby 2 441 342 (78%) 274 (80%) 16 (5%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 14 1628 1586 (97%) 272 (17%) 1113 (70%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 2 10966 7291 (66%) 0 (0%) 4308 (59%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 2 3395 3061 (90%) 733 (24%) 2328 (76%)
Chevau-Legers Encheres Martin-Chausselat Versailles 1 169 168 (99%) 85 (51%) 83 (49%)
Christie's London - King Street 16 3354 2710 (81%) 160 (6%) 1539 (57%)
Christie's London -South Kensington 20 6766 5208 (77%) 1156 (22%) 2300 (44%)
Christie's New York 20 6644 5604 (84%) 1215 (22%) 3045 (54%)
Christie's Paris 5 1921 1553 (81%) 357 (23%) 777 (50%)
Christie's Rome 1 599 339 (57%) 47 (14%) 180 (53%)
Clars Auction Gallery Oakland 1 15 6 (40%) 4 (67%) 0 (0%)
Claude Agutes Neuilly-sur-Seine 1 233 171 (73%) 16 (9%) 119 (70%)
CNY Book Auctions Ithaca 4 219 218 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 19 9638 7633 (79%) 893 (12%) 4651 (61%)
Dorotheum Vienna 10 3916 2718 (69%) 138 (5%) 1972 (73%)
Dorothy Sloan- Rare Books, Inc. Austin 4 576 485 (84%) 1 (0%) 118 (24%)
Doyle New York New York 2 661 593 (90%) 126 (21%) 332 (56%)
Du Mouchelles Detroit 2 180 120 (67%) 45 (38%) 53 (44%)
Early American Rancho Santa Fe 4 1711 646 (38%) 319 (49%) 103 (16%)
F. Zisska & R. Kistner Munich 3 6464 4894 (76%) 2294 (47%) 2600 (53%)
Freeman's (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 1 735 631 (86%) 255 (40%) 222 (35%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 2 5838 3009 (52%) 1580 (53%) 1429 (47%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 1 87 65 (75%) 10 (15%) 31 (48%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 4 749 464 (62%) 88 (19%) 199 (43%)
Gallery at Knotty Pine Auction Service West Swanzey 3 911 816 (90%) 367 (45%) 255 (31%)
Gulf Coast Book Auctions Houston 2 394 117 (30%) 101 (86%) 3 (3%)
Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg 2 3137 1943 (62%) 702 (36%) 1241 (64%)
Heritage Auction Galleries Dallas 4 3229 2824 (87%) 1314 (47%) 965 (34%)
Holabird Associates Reno 1 312 116 (37%) 93 (80%) 5 (4%)
Jeschke - Hauff und Auvermann Berlin-Schoneberg 4 4935 2713 (55%) 1032 (38%) 1681 (62%)
Johns' Western Gallery San Francisco 3 350 305 (87%) 139 (46%) 107 (35%)
Kapandji Morhange Paris 2 854 503 (59%) 189 (38%) 253 (50%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 2 3490 2967 (85%) 1372 (46%) 1594 (54%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 7 4360 3058 (70%) 781 (26%) 1077 (35%)
Lawrences Auctioneers Somerset 2 630 559 (89%) 87 (16%) 324 (58%)
Le Libraire Alain Ferraton Bruxelles 4 3454 2957 (86%) 115 (4%) 2462 (83%)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Chicago 1 270 182 (67%) 78 (43%) 44 (24%)
Librairie Loeb-Larocque Paris 1 291 206 (71%) 41 (20%) 110 (53%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 2 868 739 (85%) 108 (15%) 384 (52%)
Mealy's Auctioneers Kilkenny 3 2078 1773 (85%) 236 (13%) 1081 (61%)
Neret - Minet Paris 3 1562 583 (37%) 136 (23%) 132 (23%)
New England Book Auctions Sunderland 11 2376 2369 (100%) 711 (30%) 1129 (48%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 4 3402 2912 (86%) 1814 (62%) 641 (22%)
OSENAT FONTAINEBLEAU 1 236 116 (49%) 8 (7%) 79 (68%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 22 8694 6510 (75%) 4101 (63%) 897 (14%)
PIASA Paris 8 2549 1860 (73%) 251 (13%) 1168 (63%)
R.M. Smythe and Co., Inc. New York 1 11 3 (27%) 2 (67%) 0 (0%)
Reiss and Sohn Konigstein 5 9945 7505 (75%) 3530 (47%) 3975 (53%)
Robert C. Eldred, Inc. East Dennis 5 634 573 (90%) 178 (31%) 184 (32%)
Rossini Paris 1 232 209 (90%) 5 (2%) 174 (83%)
Royka's Auctioneers & Appraisers Lunenburg 1 176 135 (77%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Scott J. Winslow Associates, Inc. Bedford, 2 938 349 (37%) 145 (42%) 204 (58%)
Skinner, Inc. Boston 1 241 211 (88%) 77 (36%) 90 (43%)
Sotheby's Amsterdam 1 251 189 (75%) 17 (9%) 86 (46%)
Sotheby's London 21 5242 4102 (78%) 318 (8%) 2473 (60%)
Sotheby's Milan 2 1346 816 (61%) 73 (9%) 420 (51%)
Sotheby's New York 12 2976 2439 (82%) 353 (14%) 1362 (56%)
Sotheby's Paris 4 943 838 (89%) 45 (5%) 534 (64%)
Swaen.com Map Auction Indian Rocks Beach 4 4610 3684 (80%) 1974 (54%) 372 (10%)
Swann Galleries New York 32 11788 9657 (82%) 2749 (28%) 3689 (38%)
Tajan Paris 1 228 180 (79%) 31 (17%) 116 (64%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 4 3813 2870 (75%) 163 (6%) 1790 (62%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 9 2932 2652 (90%) 908 (34%) 991 (37%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 1 136 107 (79%) 13 (12%) 57 (53%)
Total 441 203330 153310 (75%) 42328 (28%) 74963 (49%)

(2005) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 1050 Bruxelles 1 634 490 (77%) 27 (6%) 450 (92%)
Alderfer Auction Company Hatfield 1 454 449 (99%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Antiquariat Peter Kiefer Pforzheim, 2 4571 2153 (47%) 1284 (60%) 869 (40%)
Antiques and Estate Auctioneers and Appraisers Wellington 3 980 980 (100%) 22 (2%) 52 (5%)
AuctionExplorerBooks.com Constantia (Cape Town) 3 1080 420 (39%) 303 (72%) 66 (16%)
Baltimore Book Auction Baltimore 4 1884 1605 (85%) 603 (38%) 514 (32%)
Bloomsbury Book Auctions London 27 14839 11064 (75%) 3079 (28%) 5334 (48%)
Bonhams Bath 3 1189 797 (67%) 44 (6%) 331 (42%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 412 344 (84%) 84 (24%) 150 (44%)
Bonhams London 13 6502 5342 (82%) 1119 (21%) 2522 (47%)
Bonhams Los Angeles 5 800 688 (86%) 247 (36%) 265 (39%)
Bonhams Norwich 1 219 162 (74%) 29 (18%) 75 (46%)
Bonhams Oxford 1 400 271 (68%) 58 (21%) 94 (35%)
Bonhams San Francisco 6 1651 1263 (77%) 439 (35%) 451 (36%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 8 800 778 (97%) 114 (15%) 574 (74%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 5 6923 5122 (74%) 0 (0%) 3448 (67%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 2 1296 1215 (94%) 257 (21%) 943 (78%)
Christie`s London - King Street 5 640 437 (68%) 29 (7%) 214 (49%)
Christie`s London -South Kensington 14 4060 3089 (76%) 656 (21%) 1260 (41%)
Christie`s New York 24 7588 6406 (84%) 1332 (21%) 3530 (55%)
Christie`s Paris 4 718 557 (78%) 75 (13%) 272 (49%)
Christie`s Rome 3 1238 740 (60%) 38 (5%) 460 (62%)
Cowan's Historic Americana Auctions Terrace Park 2 1363 1154 (85%) 359 (31%) 527 (46%)
Dargate Auction Galleries Pittsburgh, 4 420 283 (67%) 269 (95%) 6 (2%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 18 8267 6696 (81%) 665 (10%) 4374 (65%)
Dorotheum Vienna 4 1813 1432 (79%) 0 (0%) 1432 (100%)
Dorothy Sloan- Rare Books, Inc. Austin 2 289 251 (87%) 2 (1%) 109 (43%)
Doyle New York New York 2 555 503 (91%) 100 (20%) 252 (50%)
Early American Rancho Santa Fe 2 1147 476 (42%) 218 (46%) 73 (15%)
F. Zisska & R. Kistner Munich 5 6105 4314 (71%) 2085 (48%) 2229 (52%)
Freeman's (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 4 1675 1521 (91%) 480 (32%) 620 (41%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 8 6055 3373 (56%) 1664 (49%) 1709 (51%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 1 123 98 (80%) 17 (17%) 43 (44%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 2 164 138 (84%) 43 (31%) 69 (50%)
Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg 2 3895 2550 (65%) 917 (36%) 1633 (64%)
Jeschke - Hauff und Auvermann Berlin-Schoneberg 3 5717 3331 (58%) 1596 (48%) 1735 (52%)
John Bellman Auctioneers Billinghurst, West Sussex 1 397 286 (72%) 55 (19%) 96 (34%)
Johns` Western Gallery San Francisco 5 919 616 (67%) 353 (57%) 160 (26%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 4 3220 1792 (56%) 702 (39%) 1090 (61%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 6 4051 2712 (67%) 671 (25%) 914 (34%)
Lawrences Auctioneers Somerset 1 375 308 (82%) 86 (28%) 122 (40%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 1 581 541 (93%) 88 (16%) 290 (54%)
Mealy`s Auctioneers Kilkenny 1 1205 1002 (83%) 114 (11%) 637 (64%)
New England Book Auctions Sunderland 12 2799 2781 (99%) 1001 (36%) 1145 (41%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 4 3242 2650 (82%) 1614 (61%) 548 (21%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 23 8248 6738 (82%) 3710 (55%) 1391 (21%)
R.M. Smythe and Co., Inc. New York 1 394 226 (57%) 97 (43%) 129 (57%)
Reiss and Sohn Konigstein 6 10929 7077 (65%) 3427 (48%) 3650 (52%)
RENAUD - GIQUELLO & ASSOCIES Paris 1 374 210 (56%) 57 (27%) 99 (47%)
Robert C. Eldred, Inc. East Dennis 1 71 48 (68%) 17 (35%) 15 (31%)
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex 2 335 297 (89%) 35 (12%) 148 (50%)
Skinner, Inc. Bolton 1 21 16 (76%) 1 (6%) 7 (44%)
Sotheby`s Amsterdam 1 90 90 (100%) 20 (22%) 58 (64%)
Sotheby`s London 17 5513 4153 (75%) 272 (7%) 2397 (58%)
Sotheby`s Milan 2 1536 872 (57%) 14 (2%) 458 (53%)
Sotheby`s New York 12 3141 2616 (83%) 500 (19%) 1406 (54%)
Sotheby`s Paris 3 499 419 (84%) 80 (19%) 226 (54%)
Swaen.com Map Auction Indian Rocks Beach 2 1977 1016 (51%) 724 (71%) 112 (11%)
Swann Galleries New York 27 10055 8252 (82%) 2376 (29%) 3216 (39%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 3 3644 2769 (76%) 168 (6%) 1551 (56%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 5 1670 1573 (94%) 441 (28%) 854 (54%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 2 198 162 (82%) 22 (14%) 76 (47%)
Total 340 161950 119714 (74%) 34899 (29%) 57480 (48%)

(2004) Chart 1 - Auction House Results, Including Sell-through Rates, Sales Above and Below Estimates.

Auction House City Auctions Total Lots Lots Sold (%) Lots Sold Under Lower Estimated Price (%) Lots Sold Over Higher Estimated Price (%)
Alderfer Auction Company Hatfield 1 451 451 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Baltimore Book Auction Baltimore 4 1579 1258 (80%) 559 (44%) 299 (24%)
Bloomsbury Book Auctions London 25 11698 8519 (73%) 2601 (31%) 3749 (44%)
Bonhams Bath 6 1139 860 (76%) 96 (11%) 383 (45%)
Bonhams Edinburgh 2 634 606 (96%) 140 (23%) 332 (55%)
Bonhams Knowle (Solihull) 1 273 238 (87%) 25 (11%) 133 (56%)
Bonhams London 14 5868 5086 (87%) 763 (15%) 2763 (54%)
Bonhams Oxford 1 141 117 (83%) 3 (3%) 77 (66%)
Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen 2 450 442 (98%) 17 (4%) 393 (89%)
Bubb Kuyper 2011 KM Haarlem 5 6296 4860 (77%) 5 (0%) 3458 (71%)
Burgersdijk & Niermans Leiden 2 1285 1161 (90%) 296 (26%) 852 (73%)
Butterfield's San Francisco 3 713 534 (75%) 158 (30%) 218 (41%)
Christie`s London - King Street 10 2435 1800 (74%) 78 (4%) 991 (55%)
Christie`s London -South Kensington 7 1861 1332 (72%) 293 (22%) 499 (37%)
Christie`s New York 9 3069 2511 (82%) 577 (23%) 1247 (50%)
Christie`s Paris 4 792 541 (68%) 158 (29%) 221 (41%)
Christie`s Rome 3 1001 545 (54%) 124 (23%) 246 (45%)
Cowan's Historic Americana Auctions Terrace Park 1 230 178 (77%) 67 (38%) 65 (37%)
Dominic Winter Book Auctions Wiltshire 16 8542 6895 (81%) 635 (9%) 4465 (65%)
Dorotheum Vienna 4 1174 909 (77%) 3 (0%) 905 (100%)
Doyle New York New York 2 603 568 (94%) 148 (26%) 283 (50%)
Early American Rancho Santa Fe 5 1892 821 (43%) 423 (52%) 120 (15%)
F. Zisska & R. Kistner Munich 2 4027 2945 (73%) 1476 (50%) 1460 (50%)
Freeman's (Samuel T. Freeman & Co.) Philadelphia 1 673 647 (96%) 230 (36%) 230 (36%)
Galerie Bassenge Berlin-Grunewald 3 3614 1845 (51%) 856 (46%) 981 (53%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Geneve 1 367 199 (54%) 45 (23%) 70 (35%)
Galerie Koller Auctions Zurich 1 113 52 (46%) 10 (19%) 17 (33%)
Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg 2 2423 1378 (57%) 472 (34%) 900 (65%)
Holabird Associates Reno 6 903 541 (60%) 369 (68%) 33 (6%)
Jeschke Greve & Hauff Berlin 1 83 68 (82%) 68 (100%) 0 (0%)
John Bellman Auctioneers Billinghurst, West Sussex 2 804 495 (62%) 87 (18%) 173 (35%)
Johns` Western Gallery San Francisco 2 319 229 (72%) 131 (57%) 51 (22%)
Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling Hamburg 2 2738 1613 (59%) 604 (37%) 1009 (63%)
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Norwich 5 4339 2847 (66%) 883 (31%) 1075 (38%)
Lawrences Auctioneers Somerset 1 566 554 (98%) 99 (18%) 319 (58%)
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. Edinburgh 1 315 287 (91%) 55 (19%) 154 (54%)
New England Book Auctions Sunderland 11 2494 2462 (99%) 788 (32%) 1060 (43%)
Northeast Auctions Portsmouth 1 96 94 (98%) 21 (22%) 26 (28%)
Old World Auctions Sedona 4 2875 2245 (78%) 1363 (61%) 455 (20%)
PBA Galleries San Francisco 22 6575 5459 (83%) 2863 (52%) 1252 (23%)
Picard Audap Solanet Velliet Teissedre Paris 1 424 351 (83%) 37 (11%) 231 (66%)
R.M. Smythe and Co., Inc. New York 1 147 75 (51%) 29 (39%) 45 (60%)
Reiss and Sohn Konigstein 3 5614 4037 (72%) 1514 (38%) 2502 (62%)
Robert C. Eldred, Inc. East Dennis 3 243 184 (76%) 71 (39%) 45 (24%)
Skinner, Inc. Bolton 3 733 610 (83%) 178 (29%) 277 (45%)
Sotheby`s Amsterdam 1 30 30 (100%) 6 (20%) 17 (57%)
Sotheby`s London 14 3706 2827 (76%) 253 (9%) 1616 (57%)
Sotheby`s Milan 2 995 589 (59%) 33 (6%) 278 (47%)
Sotheby`s New York 13 3448 2704 (78%) 455 (17%) 1485 (55%)
Sotheby`s Paris 3 867 613 (71%) 49 (8%) 316 (52%)
Swann Galleries New York 27 8288 6896 (83%) 2080 (30%) 2851 (41%)
The Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions Brussels 1 1052 671 (64%) 18 (3%) 334 (50%)
Waddington's Toronto 1 354 321 (91%) 33 (10%) 223 (69%)
Waverly Auctions, Inc. Falls Church 7 2886 2593 (90%) 1007 (39%) 1026 (40%)
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury 1 25 24 (96%) 2 (8%) 13 (54%)
Total 276 114262 86717 (76%) 23354 (27%) 42223 (49%)