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Auction Update Review

Even in a Quiet Month it's Busy

For the week ending Saturday July 26th 22 auctions were archived to the AED; 18 in US dollars, 3 in British pounds and I in euros.  Turnover was $5,061,546 as 6,819 lots were offered and 5,089 sold for a 75% success rate.

2 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars:

Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters on July 20th: $2,346,894
Christies. Forms in Color - Prints on July 25th: $1,307,377

<--- Swann  Galleries.  Wake Up America Day.  A Vintage Poster Auction on August 6th [image is a link]

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

Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 7/17 on July 24th: 20535.00%
Heritage Auctions. UNT Mayborn Benefit Auction on July 20th: 166.21%
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers. Prints, Books on July 19th: 148.20%
Christies. Forms in Color - Prints on July 25th: 146.68%
Bloomsbury Auctions. Work on Paper on July 24th: 145.10%

<--- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.  Fine Books and Manuscripts.  406 lots.  Wednesday August 6th beginning at noon CST [image is a link]

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

National Book Auctions. Books and Ephemera - Civil War, Am. West, Exploration, etc.by on May 18th: 100.00%
National Book Auctions. Books, Art, Ephemera, and Collectibles on June 8th: 100.00%
National Book Auctions. Books on June 29th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. UNT Mayborn Benefit Auction on July 20th: 100.00%
Skinner. European Decorative Prints on July 19th: 100.00%
Winter Associates. Antiques on July 14th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Comics -Internet bidstart 7/13 on July 20th: 99.57%
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers. Prints, Books on July 19th: 97.67%
Christies. Forms in Color - Prints on July 25th: 95.93%
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Summer Sale - Prints on July 25th: 92.56%
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 7/17 on July 24th: 89.37% 

For the week ahead 12 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jul. 28th
Cowans Auctions. Cincinnati. Americana History: Photography Collection - Bidstart 7/17. 488 lots

Wed. Jul. 30th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Americana, Political. 117 lots
Morton Casa de Subastas. México DF CP 11000. Antiquarian and Modern Documents, Prints and Books. 360 lots

Thu. Jul. 31st
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Norwich. Books - Day 1. 735 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 7/24. 432 lots
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Fine Literature with Collections of James Joyce & Ray Bradbury: The Library of the late Rik Thompson. 586 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. The Collector's Sale to include Militaria. 17 lots
Eldreds. East Dennis,. Prints and Ephemera. 39 lots

Fri. Aug. 1st
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Norwich. Books - Day 2. 242 lots

Sat. Aug. 2nd
Northeast Auctions. Portsmouth. ANNUAL SUMMER AMERICANA AUCTION. 36 lots

Sun. Aug. 3rd
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics -Internet bidstart 7/27.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 7/27.

This is what the slow season looks like but never the less it still looks like 50+ auctions in the month ahead.

Bruce McKinney

AE

27 July 2014 

 

  • 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.
  • 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