Auction Update Review
The Tide Comes In
For the week ending Saturday October 13th 21
auctions were archived to the AED; 4 in British pounds, 7 in US dollars, and 10
in euros. Seven thousand six hundred and
eight lots were offered and 5,844 sold for a 76.8% success rate. Turnover was $7,694,190, 87.4% of the
aggregate high estimate of all lots offered:
$8,804,757.
Three sales raised a million dollars:
Bonhams. Fine
Books and Manuscripts in New York on October 10th: $1,336,933
Heritage Auctions.
Rare Books on October 4th:
$1,273,394
Christie’s.
Travel, Science and Natural History on October 9th: $1,025,023
Eight sales realized 100% or more of the aggregate high
estimates of all lots offered:
Kapandji Morhange.
Library
Fund from The Nave of Fools, tribute to Christopher Tupin on October 5th: 221%
Alde. Library of
Lucien Choudin; Books of Voltaire on October 5th: 162%
Bonhams. Fine
Books and Manuscripts in New York on October 10th: 153%
Alde. Literary
First Editions on October 11th:
129%
Neret – Minet & Tessier. Comic Strips on September 29th: 112%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps and Documents on October
10th: 101%
Marc van de Wiele Auctions. Jewish books, maps, manuscripts, ketubbot,
art books on October 5th: 100%
Marc van de Wiele
Auctions. Rare books and manuscripts on
October 6th: 100%
Seven auctions saw at least
80% of their lots sell:
Dominic Winter. Sporting and Natural History, Vintage and
Contemporary Photography on October 11th: 100%
Kapandji Morhange.
Library Fund from The Nave of Fools, tribute to Christopher Tupin on
October 5th: 95%
Heritage Auctions.
Historical Manuscripts on October 4th: 95%
Heritage Auctions.
Rare Books on October 4th:
92%
Swann Galleries.
Art, Press and Illustrated Books on October 11th: 83%
Heritage Auctions. Rare Book Internet auction ending October 11th: 82%
Dominic Winter.
Printed Books, Maps and Documents:
81%
For the week ahead 26 sales that contain
books, manuscripts, maps, and ephemera are scheduled. The number of lots in each sale with this material is listed at the end
of each description. These lots are
fully searchable in the AE Unified Search:
This week we begin coverage of Archive
International. Their 2800 lots of paper
history go on the block beginning Saturday October 20th, continue on
Sunday the 21st and complete on Tuesday the 23rd. On Saturday October 27th J.
Sugarman Auction Company in Miami is offering bulk lots of important general
categories of works on paper.
Mon. Oct. 15th Artcurial Briest-Le
Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan. Prints. [19565].
17 lots
Bruun
Rasmussen. Old Prints [1242a]. 12 lots
Tues. Oct. 16th Bruun Rasmussen. Modern Prints [1242b]. 66 lots
Paisa. Ancient and Modern Books and Manuscripts [19936]. 355 lots
Rossini. Books [20029]. 418 lots
Sotheby’s. Musical Collection of Andre Meyer [PF1227]. 354 lots
Wed. Oct. 17th Galerie Bassenge.
Books, Autographs, Decorative Prints.
[100a]
Sotheby’s. Musical Collection of Andre Meyer. [PF1227]
Tajan. Books.
[9740]. 354 lots
Thurs. Oct. 18th AntiquarianAuctions.com.
Rare Books. Internet bidding ending
today [22]. 392 items
Audap
& Mirabaud. Women Give to Women
[19714]. 11 lots
Bloomsbury
Auctions. Literature, Manuscripts,
Travel & Natural History [35986].
623 lots
Galerie
Bassange. Books, Autographs, Decorative
Prints [100a]. 236 lots
Galerie
Bassange. History, Geography, Travel
[100b]. 236 lots
Galerie
Bassange. Valuable Books [100c]. 349 items
Galerie
Bassange. Incunabula / Books before 1600
[100d]. 196 lots
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books online auction ending October 18th [201242]. 376 lots
Fri. Oct. 19th Galerie Bassange.
17th-19th Century Literature [100e]. 708 items
Galerie
Bassenge. Autograph Letters
[100f]. 346 lots
Sat. Oct. 20th Archive International. Scripophily, Autographs & Ephemera
[XIIa]. 919 lots
Cornette
de Saint Cyr. Comics [19617].
Galerie
Bassenge. Modern Literature [100g]. 844 lots
Sun. Oct. 21st Archive International. Scripophily, Autographs & Ephemera [XIIb]. 809 lots
National Book Auctions. Books and Ephemera – Scholarly, Autographs,
Exploration, Maps, etc [10212012]
This month 110 events are on the
calendar. The depth and complexity of
the material on offer is stunning.
Bruce McKinney
AE
October 14th, 2012