Auction Update Review

The Market in Transition

For the week ended Saturday January 13th 21 auctions were archived, many of them older sales we focused on this past week as we prepare to issue the AE Annual Auction Report on February 1st.  Ten sales were denominated in US dollars, 4 in British pounds, 7 in euros. 

 

Eleven auctions saw their sales reach or exceed 100% of their aggregate high estimates.

 

Auction House

Sale Name

Date of Auction

% Total Sales / High Est.   

Delvaux

Books and Autographs

12/4/12

2.08

Waverly Auctions, Inc.

Quinn's Auction: Fine and Rare Books

12/6/12

1.8

Delvaux

Posters

12/21/12

1.35

Woolley and Wallis

Books

12/12/12

1.31

Bruun Rasmussen

Old Prints

1/8/13

1.27

Dirk Soulis Auctions

Prints

12/1/12

1.24

Jeschke - van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH

Rare and Precious Books and Decorative Art

9/22/12

1.2

Ader

Francis Picabia

12/13/12

1.17

Woolley and Wallis

Prints

12/12/12

1.07

Mealy`s Auctioneers

Rare Book and Collectors Sale

9/26/12

1.06

 

Stair Auctioneers & Appraisers

Photographs, Prints

7/28/12

1.02

 

Ten sales saw 80% or more of their lots sell.

Auction House

Sale Name

Date of Auction

% Lots Sold   

Rupert Toovey and Co.

Prints

12/5/12

1

Dirk Soulis Auctions

Terry Redlin Signed Prints- online bidstart 12/9

12/27/12

1

Bruun Rasmussen

Old Prints

1/7/13

1

Aspire Auctions

Prints - Internet bidstart 12/7

12/14/12

0.98

Stair Auctioneers & Appraisers

Photographs, Prints

7/28/12

0.97

Dirk Soulis Auctions

Important Railroadiana

6/30/12

0.97

Dirk Soulis Auctions

Prints

12/1/12

0.95

Waverly Auctions, Inc.

Quinn's Auction: Fine and Rare Books

12/6/12

0.93

Carlsen Gallery

Prints, Books

12/2/12

0.88

Stair Auctioneers & Appraisers

Prints, etc.

10/27/12

0.87

Rupert Toovey and Co.

Prints

12/28/12

0.83

Heritage Auctions (HA.com)

Rare Books -

1/10/13

0.81

 

Here is a link to an interactive spreadsheet for auctions archived this week.

2012 was a busy year, the number of sales and lots both records.  2013 looks to be an even busier year.

 

Bruce McKinney

AE
January 13, 2013

  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.