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Fonsie Mealy Auction Dec 15,
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43 Auctions Archived, 66 Sales Upcoming. The number of upcoming sales is stunning!

For the week ended Saturday 5 December 43 auctions were archived to the RBH Database; I in Australian dollars, 27 in euros, 4 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, and 10 in US dollars.  Turnover was $12,637,719 as 11,725 lots were offered and 7,613 sold for 65% success rate.

3 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Christies. Books and Manuscripts on December 1st: $2,191,877 
Christies. Science and Medical Books on December 1st: $1,712,813 
Galerie Bassenge. 15th-19th Century Prints on November 26th: $1,154,893 

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

Beaussant Lefevre. Antiquarian and Modern Books on November 26th: 205.45% 
Dorotheum . Books and Prints on December 2nd: 149.37% 
Dorotheum . Autographs - Manuscripts on November 30th: 139.65% 
Tooveys. Prints on December 2nd: 117.39% 
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on December 2nd: 104.83% 
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on December 1st: 103.71% 


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

Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 11/22 on November 29th: 99.53% 
Beaussant Lefevre. Antiquarian and Modern Books on November 26th: 98.48% 
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 11/22 on November 29th: 97.46% 
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Rare and Used Books on November 13th: 93.02% 
Australian Book Auctions. Books on November 30th: 90.45% 
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 11/26 on December 3rd: 89.16% 
PBA Galleries. Rare Cartography, Exploration & Voyages: The Warren Heckrotte Collection, Part II on December 3rd: 86.81% 
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on December 1st: 85.98% 
Dorotheum . Books and Prints on December 2nd: 80.54% 


43 total sales reported this week: 

Minerva Auctions Roma. Photographs on December 2nd: 19.37% 
Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH. Rare Books, Prints and Photographs on November 27th: 50.07% 
Auctionata. China Now! & Asian Contemporary Art on December 4th: 7.69% 
PBA Galleries. Rare Cartography, Exploration & Voyages: The Warren Heckrotte Collection, Part II on December 3rd: 86.81% 
PIASA. Photographs on December 3rd: 55.96% 
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 11/26 on December 3rd: 89.16% 
PIASA. Prints on December 2nd: 34.04% 
Brunk Auctions. December Online Auction - Prints and Books on December 2nd: 73.17% 
Tooveys. Prints on December 2nd: 66.67% 
Auctionata. Italy: Art of the 16th to 21st Century - Prints on December 3rd: 14.29% 
Auctionata. Spain: Modern & Contemporary - with Works from Portugal & Latin America - Prints on December 3rd: 32.00% 
Auctionata. Paris: Artists of the City - Prints on December 2nd: 30.95% 
Auctionata. La Grande Nation: French Art of the 18th - 20th Century - Prints on December 2nd: 12.73% 
Morton Casa de Subastas. Rare Books on December 1st: 41.71% 
Auctionata. Austrian Modern and Contemporary Art with Hundertwasser Collection on December 1st: 54.55% 
Auctionata. German Zeitgeist: Post War - Prints on December 1st: 37.93% 
Auctionata. German Art of the 20th Century - Prints and Portfolios on November 30th: 32.43% 
Auctionata. Austrian Art: 19th Century and Modernism - Books, Prints on November 30th: 57.14% 
Skinner. The Gentleman's Auction - Internet bidstart 11/19 on December 2nd: 66.67% 
Bloomsbury Auctions. Editions and Works on Paper on December 2nd: 53.63% 
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on December 2nd: 62.26% 
Artcurial. Photography: Bruno Mouron Collection - Part 2 on December 1st: 61.14% 
Artcurial. Photography: Bruno Mouron Collection - Part 1 on November 30th: 46.43% 
Artcurial. Limited Editions - Prints on November 30th: 68.55% 
Christies. Books and Manuscripts on December 2nd: 61.36% 
Christies. Science and Medical Books on December 1st: 75.56% 
Christies. Books and Manuscripts on December 1st: 62.23% 
Dorotheum . Books and Prints on December 2nd: 80.54% 
Dorotheum . Autographs - Manuscripts on November 30th: 69.75% 
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on December 1st: 85.98% 
Galerie Bassenge. 19th-21st Century Photography on December 2nd: 56.34% 
Galerie Bassenge. Modern Art Part I - Prints on November 28th: 71.43% 
Galerie Bassenge. Modern Art Part II - Prints on November 28th: 74.23% 
Galerie Bassenge. 15th-19th Century Prints on November 26th: 55.58% 
Old World Auctions. Maps and Atlases on November 18th: 72.34% 
Australian Book Auctions. Books on November 30th: 90.45% 
Beaussant Lefevre. Antiquarian and Modern Books on November 26th: 98.48% 
Aguttes. Books and Old Paper on November 26th: 51.46% 
Cowans Auctions. American History on November 20th: 76.55% 
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Rare and Used Books on November 13th: 93.02% 
AntiquarianAuctions.com. Books - Internet Bidstart 11/19 on November 26th: 35.27% 
Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 11/22 on November 29th: 99.53% 

 

Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 11/22 on November 29th: 97.46% 

 

The Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Christies De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. on December 1st Actual price: USD $381,750.
  2. Christies Astronomia nova, seu physica coelestis, tradita commentariis de motibus stellae Martis, ex observationibus G.V. Tychonis Brahe. on December 1st Actual price: USD $219,750.
  3. Galerie Bassenge Les Chats on November 28th Actual price: USD $146,280.
  4. Christies [Geological Sections.] (No general title-page). on December 1st Actual price: USD $129,750.
  5. Christies … on December 1st Actual price: USD $129,750.
  6. Artcurial $ (9) - 1982 Sérigraphie en couleurs sur Lenox Museum on November 30th Actual price: USD $128,090.
  7. Christies De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata on December 1st Actual price: USD $120,750.
  8. Christies Boris Godunov. St Petersburg: at the Press of the Department of Public Education, 1831. on December 1st Actual price: USD $102,750.
  9. Dorotheum E. B. m. U. (Ihr Freund Beethowen), (kurz nach dem 6. 1. 1813), on November 30th Actual price: USD $92,750.
  10. Christies De historia et causis plantarum. Translated from Greek intro Latin by Theodorus Gaza (fl. 1400-75), edited by Georgius Merula (d. 1494). on December 1st Actual price: USD $90,000.
  11. Christies Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. on December 1st Actual price: USD $84,375.
  12. Cowans Auctions <i>Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War</i>, Philp & Solomons, 1865-1866  on November 20th Actual price: USD $84,000.
  13. Christies A COMPLETE SET OF MAJOR AND AN ALMOST COMPLETE SET OF MINOR WORKS, MOST IN FIRST EDITION, THE 49 VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND IN GILT-TOOLED RED MOROCCO BY WALLIS. on December 1st Actual price: USD $75,000.
  14. Christies A PRIEST RENOUNCING HIS BENEFICE, miniature on a bifolium from a glossed Decretum Gratiani, manuscript on vellum illuminated by the Maître Honoré on December 1st Actual price: USD $75,000.
  15. Dorotheum Breviarium [Brevier] (Nocturnale, Pars hiemalis [Winterteil]), Sweetheart Abbey 1300/1350. on November 30th Actual price: USD $74,200.
  16. Christies Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Foederate on December 1st Actual price: USD $71,250.
  17. Christies ST PETER, miniature on a leaf from the Chester Beatty Book of Hours, with a text leaf from the same manuscript, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, on December 1st Actual price: USD $71,250.
  18. Galerie Bassenge Lady Jane Montagu on November 26th Actual price: USD $69,960.
  19. Christies ‘He held it very tightly against himself, so … on December 1st Actual price: USD $65,625.
  20. Christies [AUSTRALIA – RUM REBELLION] – WARRANT FOR THE COURT-MARTIAL OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE JOHNSTON (1764-1823). on December 1st Actual price: USD $65,625.
  21. Christies Nous avons. on December 2nd Actual price: USD $61,374.
  22. Christies 23 gravures. on December 2nd Actual price: USD $58,830.
  23. Christies The Sea-Mirrour Containing a Briefe Instruction in the Art of Navigation. Amsterdam: W. Blaeu, 1635. on December 1st Actual price: USD $56,250.
  24. Christies Phytanthoza iconographia; sive Conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus, longa annorum serie indefessoque studio ... collectarum plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum fructuum, fungorum. Text by J.G.N. Dietric on December 1st Actual price: USD $56,250.
  25. Christies BOOK OF HOURS, use of Paris, in Latin and french, illuminated manuscript on vellum on December 1st Actual price: USD $56,250.

 

For the week ahead 66 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Dec. 7th
Aguttes. Neuilly-sur-Seine . Contemporary Art and Photography. 4 lots
Sothebys. London. Music, Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts. 260 lots
Artcurial. Paris. Collectibles - Posters. 180 lots
Christies. New York. THE CHARLES E. SIGETY COLLECTION OF FINE PRINTED BOOKS AND AMERICANA, PART II. 320 lots
Winter Associates. Plainville, CT . December Sale - Prints, Books, Ephemera. 34 lots
Adams Amsterdam Auctions. Amsterdam. Art From Three Centuries. 253 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 65 lots
Auctionata. Berlin. 100 Masterworks - Prints. 16 lots
Profiles in History. Calabasas Hills. Morris Everett, Jr. The Auction Part II - Day1. 503 lots

Tue. Dec. 8th
Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions. Bruxelles . Books, Maps, Prints. 412 lots
Swann Galleries. New York. Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books. 554 lots
Christies. New York. Books and Manuscripts. 320 lots
Sothebys. London. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. 76 lots
Alexander Historical Auctions. Chesapeake City. Winter Auction. 1104 lots
Christies. New York. SELECTIONS FROM THE DAVIDSON COLLECTION: IMPORTANT ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE AND HISTORICAL AM. 258 lots
Profiles in History. Calabasas Hills. Morris Everett, Jr. The Auction Part II - Day2. 487 lots

Wed. Dec. 9th
RR Auction. Amherst. Fine Autographs & Artifacts - Internet bidstart 11/20. 1247 lots
Christies. London - King Street. Old Master Prints. 233 lots
Artcurial. Paris. Prints and Illustrated Books. 153 lots
Binoche et Giquello. rue La Boetie, Paris. Science Books. 317 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. Western Manuscripts. 125 lots
Bonhams. London. Prints and Multiples. 265 lots
Bonhams. New York. Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including the Collection of Harry E. Gould, Jr.. 354 lots
Robert Siegel Galleries. New York. Postal History. 144 lots
Grays Auctioneers. Cleveland, . Jewelry, Fine Art and Antiques - Books and Prints. 27 lots
Profiles in History. Calabasas Hills. Morris Everett, Jr. The Auction Part II - Day3. 511 lots

Thu. Dec. 10th
Bonhams. London. The December Sale - Automobilia. 14 lots
Ader. PARIS. Modern Prints - Henri M. Petiet Collection. 325 lots
Minerva Auctions Roma. Roma. An Important International Prints Collection. 287 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. Books and Works on Paper. 352 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 12/3. 315 lots
Bonhams. London. Entertainment Memorabilia. 180 lots
Christies. London -South Kensington. Prints and Multiples. 223 lots
PIASA. Paris. PIERRE NÉTANGE COLLECTION , BOOKS. 396 lots
Rossini. Paris. Collection of Documents, Posters, Ancient Manuscripts.
Auctionata. New York. American and European Fine Art - Prints. 17 lots
Morton Casa de Subastas. México DF CP 11000. Auction Year of Graphic Art and Paintings.
Profiles in History. Calabasas Hills. Animation and Disneyana. 880 lots
PIASA. Paris. Manuscripts and Books.
PIASA. Paris. 20th Century Prints. 96 lots

Fri. Dec. 11th
Profiles in History. Calabasas Hills. DocDave Winiewicz Collection Featuring the Works of Master Frank Frazetta. 129 lots
Pierre Berge and Associes. Paris. Library of Pierre Berge. 188 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. Autographs, Memorabilia and Vintage Posters. 496 lots
Neret Minet and Tessier. Paris. Imagery. 342 lots
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. December 11th Auction. 53 lots
Gonnelli Casa DAste. Firenze. Prints. 693 lots
Hauswedell and Nolte. Hamburg. Modern Art - Prints.
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Norwich. Selected Quality Pictures - Prints. 39 lots
Auctionata. Berlin. Editions .. For You or Someone Special - Prints. 269 lots
Hauswedell and Nolte. Hamburg. Modern Art - Part 2 - Prints.
Cowans Auctions. Cincinnati. Works on Paper - Prints. 60 lots

Sat. Dec. 12th
Michaans Auctions. Alameda, CA . Estate Auction. 20 lots
Aspire Auctions. Cleveland. December Online Auction - Prints Internet bidstart 12/4. 18 lots
Clars Auction Gallery. Oakland. Prints. 102 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Civil War and Militaria. 271 lots
Vermot de Pas. Paris. Comics: Albums and Original Plates.
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. December 12th Auction. 13 lots
Hauswedell and Nolte. Hamburg. Contemporary Art - Prints.
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. December Sale - Part 1. 638 lots
Dirk Soulis Auctions. Lee's Summit . Fine Art, Traditional Antiques and Contemporary Western Art - Prints, Maps. 15 lots
Rachel Davis Fine Arts. Cleveland. Prints.

Sun. Dec. 13th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics - Internet bidstart 12/6.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 12/6.
Clars Auction Gallery. Oakland. Prints. 83 lots
Rachel Davis Fine Arts. Cleveland. Fine and Decorative Arts - Prints. 46 lots
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. Western Americana Live Auction - session 1.

Bruce McKinney

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  • 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.
  • 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.
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
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