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Twenty-eight Auctions Archived, 30 Sales Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Saturday, April 22, 2017, 28 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; 2 in Australian dollars, 2 in Danish krona, 2 in euros, 2 in British pounds, and 20 in US dollars.  Turnover was $11,438,897 as 7,279 lots were offered and 5,536 sold for a 76% success rate.  It was a solid week.

 

3 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

ChristiesPrints on April 20th: $5,415,375 
BonhamsPrints and Multiples on April 18th: $1,341,221 
Swann GalleriesImages and Objects: Photographs and Photobooks on April 20th: $1,223,927 

3 auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered: 

Potter and Potter AuctionsSpring Magic Auction on April 8th: 126.28% 
PIASAEditions : prints, illustrated books, multiples on April 20th: 117.78% 
ALDEModern Illustrated Books and Original Bindings on April 12th: 111.79% 


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

Leland Little AuctionsHoliday Weekend Gallery Auction on April 15th: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Comics - bidstart 4/9 on April 16th: 99.85% 
National Book AuctionsBooks on April 8th: 99.50% 
Potter and Potter AuctionsSpring Magic Auction on April 8th: 96.11% 
Aspire AuctionsFine Art - Prints -Internet bidstart: 3/31 on April 8th: 95.74% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 4/9 on April 16th: 93.49% 
ChristiesPrints on April 20th: 88.89% 
Northeast AuctionsSpring Auction on April 2nd: 88.68% 
ALDEModern Illustrated Books and Original Bindings on April 12th: 83.27% 

 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Christies Myths on April 20th Actual price: USD $583,500.
  2. Christies Cowboys and Indians on April 20th Actual price: USD $379,500.
  3. Christies Le Repas Frugal on April 20th Actual price: USD $199,500.
  4. Christies Longus, Daphnis et Chloé, Tériade Editeur, Paris, 1961 on April 20th Actual price: USD $168,750.
  5. Christies Paramount, from Ads on April 20th Actual price: USD $125,000.
  6. Christies Mickey Mouse, from Myths on April 20th Actual price: USD $125,000.
  7. Christies Portrait de Jacqueline on April 20th Actual price: USD $125,000.
  8. Michael Treloar The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-2. on April 6th Actual price: USD $115,140.
  9. Christies Accident on April 20th Actual price: USD $93,750.
  10. Christies Alexander the Great: one plate on April 20th Actual price: USD $87,500.
  11. Bonhams Truck on April 18th Actual price: USD $87,500.
  12. Christies Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean), from Ads on April 20th Actual price: USD $81,250.
  13. Christies Self-Portrait on April 20th Actual price: USD $75,000.
  14. Christies Crying Girl on April 20th Actual price: USD $75,000.
  15. Christies Lithographic Water Made of Lines, Crayon, and Two Blue Washes on April 20th Actual price: USD $75,000.
  16. Christies Bighorn Ram, from Endangered Species on April 20th Actual price: USD $72,500.
  17. Bonhams Touched Red on April 18th Actual price: USD $72,500.
  18. Potter and Potter Auctions Bess Houdini's Diamond and Gemstone Brooch on April 8th Actual price: USD $72,000.
  19. Christies Giant Panda, from Endangered Species on April 20th Actual price: USD $68,750.
  20. Christies Mick Jagger: one plate on April 20th Actual price: USD $68,750.
  21. Christies Roman Notes VI, from Roman Notes on April 20th Actual price: USD $68,750.
  22. PIASA Serpent noir on April 20th Actual price: USD $63,986.
  23. Christies Alexander the Great: one plate on April 20th Actual price: USD $62,500.
  24. Christies Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482): one plate on April 20th Actual price: USD $62,500.
  25. Bonhams Grand Masque on April 18th Actual price: USD $62,500.



28 total sales reported this week:

PBA Galleries. Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography on April 20th: 69.38%
PIASA. Editions : prints, illustrated books, multiples on April 20th: 77.29%
Swann Galleries. Images and Objects: Photographs and Photobooks on April 20th: 71.18%
Christies. Prints on April 20th: 88.89%
Tooveys. Prints and Maps on April 19th: 77.08%
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Antiques and Interiors - Books and Pictures on April 18th: 48.15%
Bonhams. Prints and Multiples on April 18th: 79.18%
One Of Kind Collectibles. Autographs, Manuscripts and Sports on April 13th: 75.21%
Leland Little Auctions. Holiday Weekend Gallery Auction on April 15th: 100.00%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on April 18th: 74.44%
RR Auction. Fine Autographs & Artifacts - Internet bidstart 3/17 on April 12th: 71.90%
Grays Auctioneers. Fine Art - Prints on April 12th: 64.86%
ALDE. Modern Illustrated Books and Original Bindings on April 12th: 83.27%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on April 11th: 78.26%
Potomack Company. Live Auction - Books, Prints on April 8th: 74.29%
Potomack Company. Online Auction - Books, Prints on April 11th: 54.29%
Michaans Auctions. April Estate Auction on April 8th: 66.67%
The Written Word Autographs. Autographs - Session 2 on April 9th: 41.74%
The Written Word Autographs. Autographs - Session 1 on April 8th: 41.88%
Potter and Potter Auctions. Spring Magic Auction on April 8th: 96.11%
National Book Auctions. Books on April 8th: 99.50%
Aspire Auctions. Fine Art - Prints -Internet bidstart: 3/31 on April 8th: 95.74%
Northeast Auctions. Spring Auction on April 2nd: 88.68%
Cowans Auctions. American History - Online bidstart 3/23 on April 3rd: 79.44%
Michael Treloar. Voyages and exploration, rare medical books, art, photographs, literature, maps, prints and Australi on April 6th: 56.14%
Michael Treloar. Voyages and exploration, rare medical books, art, photographs, literature, maps, prints and Australi on April 5th: 71.49%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 4/9 on April 16th: 93.49%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 4/9 on April 16th: 99.85%

 


For the week ahead 30 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Apr. 24th
Tooveys. West Sussex. Antiquarian and Collectors Books. 285 lots
Sothebys. New York. The Maurice Neville Collection of Modern Literature (Part III). 102 lots
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals. Chadds Ford, PA . April Premier Auction. 18 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 73 lots

Tue. Apr. 25th
Bonhams. New York. Photographs. 111 lots
Tajan. Paris. Prints. 331 lots
Freemans. Philadelphia. Asian Art - Books and Prints. 20 lots

Wed. Apr. 26th
Doyle New York. New York. Rare Books, Autographs and Photographs. 432 lots
Christies. London - King Street. THE GIANCARLO BELTRAME LIBRARY OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS, PART III. 416 lots
Pierre Berge and Associes. Paris. JEAN A. BONNA LIBRARY - SELECTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE 15TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY. 307 lots
Old World Auctions. Glen Allen. Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics - online bidstart 4/12. 809 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. The Transport Sale. 19 lots
Freemans. Philadelphia. American Folk and Decorative Art - Prints. 5 lots
Ader. PARIS. Letters and Autograph Manuscripts. 306 lots

Thu. Apr. 27th
Swann Galleries. New York. Printed & Manuscript Americana. 372 lots
Sothebys. New York. Prints and Multiples. 294 lots
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Eric Gruaz Library: Alchemy - Magic - Witchcraft - Occultism - Religion (Auction in association with. 222 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. The Library of the Late Hubert Dingwall. 223 lots
Ader. PARIS. Letters and Autograph Manuscripts. 295 lots
Waverly Auctions. Falls Church. Books. 74 lots

Fri. Apr. 28th
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Eric Gruaz Library: Alchemy - Magic - Witchcraft - Occultism - Religion (Auction in association with. 228 lots
Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions. Brussels. Books and Prints. 723 lots
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. Dynamite, Guns and Gold - Day 1 - Books, mining ephemera, manuscripts. 201 lots
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Norwich. Sporting and Taxidermy - Prints and Books. 48 lots

Sat. Apr. 29th
National Book Auctions. Ithaca. Books.
Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions. Brussels. Books and Prints. 685 lots
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. Dynamite, Guns, and Gold(Session 2, Minerals, Gold, Numismatics, Firearms, ). 19 lots

Sun. Apr. 30th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 4/23.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 4/23.
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. Dynamite, Guns, and Gold (Session 3, Western Americana, Cowboy, Indian). 268 lots

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.