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Auction Update Review

The Market Firms

 

 

For the week ending Saturday April 19th 36 auctions were archived to the AED; 17 in euros, 7 in British pounds, 2 in Mexican pesos, and 10 in US dollars.  Turnover was $10,575,611 as 10,139 lots were offered and 7,140 sold for a 70% success rate.

1 auction saw its total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Autographs I. Literature on March 25th: $1,201,667

<--- Robert Indiana [B. 1928].  Chosen Love at Christies April 23-24.  Print and Multiples Sale 2842.  Estimated $3,000 to $5,000

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

<--- Group of 10 documents relating to Cuba.  Lot 237.  PBA - Sale 531 Fine Americana on April 24th.  Estimate $250 to $350

JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Autographs I. Literature on March 25th: 168.44%
Ferraton. Posters, Photographs and Prints on March 29th: 156.06%
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Autographs III. Fine Arts on March 25th: 145.28%
Kedem Auction. Objects - Manuscripts, Books, Prints on February 26th: 131.95%
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Autographs VI. History on March 26th: 117.20%
Carlsen Gallery. Spring Sale - Prints on April 6th: 114.28%
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Autographs II. Science on March 25th: 111.19%
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Autographs IV. Music on March 26th: 109.04%
Cowans Auctions. Americana - Prints, Ephemera on April 12th: 107.62%
Bonhams. The Scottish Sale on April 16th: 104.33%
Kedem Auction. Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinic Letters on April 2nd: 101.16%


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

Carlsen Gallery. Spring Sale - Prints on April 6th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters - Internet Bidstart 4/6 on April 13th: 99.05%
Heritage Auctions. Comics -Internet bidstart 4/6 on April 13th: 98.27%
Cowans Auctions. Americana - Prints, Ephemera on April 12th: 90.48%
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 4/10 on April 17th: 88.85%
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Autographs I. Literature on March 25th: 88.49%
Ferraton. Posters, Photographs and Prints on March 29th: 86.30%
Clars Auction Gallery. Prints and Photographs on April 12th: 83.60%
Bruun Rasmussen. Old Master Prints on April 14th: 83.33%
Bruun Rasmussen. Modern and Contemporary Prints on April 15th: 82.69%
Bonhams. The Scottish Sale on April 16th: 82.61%
Kedem Auction. Objects - Manuscripts, Books, Prints on February 26th: 82.22%
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Autographs II. Science on March 25th: 80.98%
Bonhams. Marine on April 15th: 80.00%

For the week ahead 24 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Apr. 21st
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Old Master Prints. 5 lots

Tue. Apr. 22nd
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex. Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera. 44 lots
Bonhams. San Francisco. Prints and Multiples. 286 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern and Contemporary Prints. 46 lots

Wed. Apr. 23rd
Christies. New York. Prints and Multiples. 232 lots
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex. Prints. 42 lots
Tajan. Paris. Russian Library. 400 lots

Thu. Apr. 24th
Swann Galleries. New York. Modernist Posters. 214 lots
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Fine Americana and Western Memorabilia. 514 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Titanic Internet bidstart 4/17. 211 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 4/17. 578 lots
AntiquarianAuctions.com. Laguna Beach. Antiquarian Books - Internet bidstart 4/17. 333 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Lomasney Vintage Movie Art Posters Benefiting Lifebeat Monthly Internet Charity. 40 lots

Fri. Apr. 25th
Neal Auction Company. New Orleans. Books, Prints. 82 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. Maps & Atlases incl. a Private Collection of Cartographic. 503 lots
Dirk Soulis Auctions. Lee's Summit . Fine Art - Prints and Photography. 77 lots

Sat. Apr. 26th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Entertainment. 540 lots
Vermot de Pas. Paris. Books, Manuscripts and Documentations - Historical Memories of the Second World War. 266 lots
Knotty Pine Auction Service. West Swanzey. Americana and Estate Books. 373 lots
Artcurial. Paris. Joann Sfar. 31 lots
Grogan and Company. Dedham. Antiques - Prints. 19 lots
Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH. Berlin-Schoneberg. Prints. 249 lots

Sun. Apr. 27th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 4/20.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics -Internet bidstart 4/20.

The business of rare books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera seems to be finding a careful balance between what is available and what they are worth.

 

Bruce McKinney

AE 

 

  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    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
    Starting 10AM CST
    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
    Starting 10AM CST
    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
    Starting 10AM CST
    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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.