• Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas

Auction Update Review

Another Week, Another ...

For the week ending Saturday June 15th 33 auctions were archived to the AED; 6 in US dollars, 2 in British pounds, and 25 in euros.  Turnover was $21,904,079 as 13,637 lots were offered and 9,165 sold for a 67% success rate.  The average lot realization was $2,390.

 

Six sales saw at least a million dollars change hands:

 

Christies.  Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts on May 12th:  $5,9019,329

Sothebys.  Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Americana on May 11th:  $3,691,946

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Comic Strips with L’univers du Createur de Tintin – 3rd Part on June 8th:  $1,944,472

Ketterer Kunst / F. Doerling.  Books on May 27th:  $1,820,054

Galerie Bassenge.  Prints on May 30th:  $1,602,566

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Prints and Illustrated Books on June 5th:  $1,148,087

 

Seven sales saw total proceeds exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered:

 

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Comics, Illustrations – Benefitting “Douleurs sans Frontiers” on June 6th:  258%

Piasa.  Books, Prints on June 11th:  137%

Osenat.  French Empire at Fontainbleau on June 6th:  132%

Alde.  First Editions of the XIX and XX – Collection of Tschann on May 3rd:  124%

Galerie Bassenge.  Prints on June 1st:  121%

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Prints and Illustrated Books on June 5th:  110% 

Bubb Kuyper.  Bibliograph, Typography, Cartography, Art Reference on May 28th:  104%

 

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

 

John McInnis.  Prints on June 1st:  95%

Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Rare Books internet bidding ended June 13th:  92%

Galerie Bassenge.  Prints on June 1st:  89%

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Comics, Illustrations – Benefitting “Douleurs sans Frontiers” on June 6th:  88%

Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Militaria and Civil War on June 8th:  87%

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Prints and Illustrated Books on June 5th:  80%

 

For the week ahead 38 sales are scheduled:

 

Mon. June 17th       Dorotheum.  Globes [61713].  37 lots
Audap Mirabaud &.  Autographs and Manuscripts, Ancient and Modern Books [21932].  252 lots
Cornette de Saint Cyr.  Prints [21590].  393 lots

Tues. June 18th                Bruun Rasmussen.  Modern Prints [1325].  49 lots
Christies.  Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts [8952].  236 lots

                                               Henri Godts Books & Prints Auctions.  Books [61813].  450 lots

                                               Pierre Berge & Associes.  Ancient and Modern Books [21791].  123 lots
Pierre Berge & Associes.  Jean-Paul Morin Collection – 4th Part:  Photographs [22121].  202 Lots

Wed. June 19th                 Minerva Auctions Roma.  Enchantment of Art:  Prints [ROMA-93].  40 lots

                                               Bloomsbury Auctions.  Bibliophile [36060].  538 lots

                                              Bonhams.  Books [20752].  227 lots

                                             Dominic Winter Book Auctions.  Printed Books, Maps and Documents [61913].  534 lots

                                              RR Auction.  Autographs [410].  1751 lots

                                             Skinner, Inc.  Prints, Books, Ephemera [2660M].  43 lots

                                             Sothebys.  Collection Raoul Simonsen [PF1331].  343 lots

Thurs. June 20th              Christies.  The Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow Part Three:  The Baroque and
  Rococo Periods [2800].  410 lots

                                             Dominic Winter Book Auctions.  Children’s Illustrated Books, etc [62013].  364 lots

                                             Dorotheum.  Books and Decorative Prints [62013].  313 lots

                                             Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Rare Books internet bidding ending today [201325].  245 lots

                                    Kestenbaum and Company.  Judaica – Manuscripts, Prints, Photographs [59].  60 lots

                                             Minerva Auctions Roma.  Books, Autographs and Prints [94].  651 lots

                                    Rossini.  Letters, Postcards, Documents [22183].  144 lots

                                                Skinner, Inc.  Prints, Books, Ephemera [2660M].  43 lots

                                                Swann Galleries, Inc.  19th and 20th Century Literature [2319].  303 lots

                                                Waverly Auctions, Inc.  Quinn’s Book Sale [62013].  361 lots

Fri. June 21st                       Christies.  Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana [2717].  187 lots

                                              Cowan’s Auctions, Inc.  American History [354].  425 lots

                                    Ferraton.  Ancient and Modern Books, Photographs [22185].  486 lots

                                            James D. Julia Auctioneers.  Advertising [343].  51 lots

                                              Kiefer – Buch- und Kunstauktionen.  Rare Books [85].  4544 lots

Sat. June 22nd             Farraton.  Etchings, Books [22187].  593 lots
Galerie Koller Auctions.  Modern Prints [A165].  132 lots

                                                Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Americana, Political [6096].  244 lots

                                                Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Legends of the Wild West [6101].  410 lots

                                                Kiefer – Buch- und Kunstauktionen.  Rare Books [85] cont. 4544 lots
                                     Skinner, Inc.  20th Century Design:  Prints [2661B].  34 lots

Sun. June 23rd            Bonhams.  Books, Prints, Photos [20980].  123 lots

                                                Pierre Berge & Associes.  Old Books/Modern [15229].

 

It’s another busy week.

 

Bruce McKinney

AE

  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.