September arrives like a Hoyt Wilhelm or R. A. Dickey pitch, the speed slow, and the outcome uncertain. But we have been here before and know, by the end of September, that the month will resolve itself nicely. At this point we just don’t know how.
The number of events scheduled already ensures the month will set a September record. Such records are now routine but it’s nevertheless encouraging that, as we head into the traditional new auction year – September to August – the schedule continues to filling in. Over the past 9 years the number of September sales covered on AE has steadily increased.
Year Sales Total Lots
2012 61 [currently] Not yet known
2011 57 27,828
2010 37 12363
2009 35 20276
2008 40 17193
2007 36 11716
2006 37 14847
2005 49 9959
2004 25 5915
Because September sales are often posted after Labor Day we estimate another half dozen will be posted over the next two weeks. It seems that even while economic and political uncertainty in the United States and Europe prevails some fields do better than others. Auctions seem to be holding their ground.
Sales now posted to the September calendar are:
Sat. Sept. 1st Bloomsbury Auctions. Books and Autographs [ROMA-78]. 137 lots
Morton Casa de Subastas. Books, Documents and Prints [641]. 359 lots
Mon. Sept. 3rd Christie’s. The London Sale [7858]. 51 lots
Tues. Sept. 4th Bruun Rasmussen. Books [1236]. 247 lots
Wed. Sept. 5th Old World Auctions. Maps, etc. [141]
Thurs. Sept. 6th AntiquarianAuctions.com Rare Books – ending today.
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books. Online bidding ending today.
Fri. Sept. 7th Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Prints [1044]
Skinner, Inc. Fine Prints [2609B]
Sat. Sept. 8th Clars Auction Gallery. Prints, Photographs [90812]
Neal Auction Company. Fall Estates Auction [90812]
Sun. Sept. 9th Clars Auction Gallery. Prints, Photographs ending [90812]
National Book Auctions. Books, Art, Ephemera and Collectibles [90912] Neal Auction Company. Fall Estates Auction ending [90812]
Wed. Sept. 12th Dorotheum. Posters, Advertising Art, Comics, Film and Photo History [9596]
Heritage Auctions. Estate Sale: Prints and Photography [5101]
Rupert Toovey and Co. Prints [1068].
Thurs. Sept. 13th Bloomsbury Auctions. Bibliophile [35949]
Heritage Auctions. Estate Sale: Prints and Photography [5101]
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books. Online bidding ending today.
PBA Galleries. Rare Books and Manuscripts [488]
Waddington’s. Joyner-Waddington Online Auction of Post-War Canadian Art including Prints [91312]
Sat. Sept 15th Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver. Books, etc. [91512]
Sun. Sept. 16th Bonhams. Prints and Photographs [20041]
Wed. Sept. 19th Bonhams. Prints featuring British Pop [19786]
Christie’s. Prints [5705].
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps & Documents [91912]
Freeman’s [Samuel T. Freeman & Co.]. Photography and Photographic Books [1437].
Sotheby’s. Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints [L12161]
Thurs. Sept. 20th Bloomsbury Auctions. Children’s, Conjuring, Private Press and Modern First Editions [35952]
Christie’s. Etchings by James Ensor from an Important Private Collections [8258]
Cowan’s Auctions. The World at War [283].
De Baecque & Associes. Antiquarian and Modern Books [19666]
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. A Country House Library
[92012]
Freeman’s [Samuel T. Freeman & Co.]. Books, Maps and Manuscripts [1438]
Heritage Auctions. Rare book – online bidding ending today [201238]
Knotty Pine Auction Service. Books and Ephemera [92012]
Pierre Berge & Associes. Books [19559]
Swann Galleries. 19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings [560]
Fri. Sept. 21st Ferraton. Books, Autographs and Manuscripts [92112]
Galerie Koller Auctions. Prints, Books [A162].
Galerie Koller Auctions. Master Prints [W234]
Venator and Hanstein [Buch und Graphikauktionen]. Books, Prints, Drawings, Autographs [124].
Sat. Sept. 22nd Auxerre Encheres – Auxerre Estimations. Books [89739]
Galerie Koller Auctions. Prints, Books [A162]
Venator and Hanstein [Buch und Graphikauktionen]. Modern and Contemporary Prints and Drawings; Modern Literature on Art [125]
Mon. Sept. 24th Sotheby’s. Property from the Estate of Brook Astor [NO8890]
Tues.. Sept. 25th Sotheby’s. Property from the Estate of Brook Astor, continued [NO8890]
Bonhams. Printed Books and Maps [19844]
Wed. Sept. 26th Dorotheum. Modern Prints [92612]
Lyon and Turnbull Ltd. International Sale: Prints [360]
Mealy’s Auctioneer’s. Rare Book and Collectors Sale [92612]
Tajan. Books [9740]
Thurs. Sept. 27th Bloomsbury Auctions. Modern and Contemporary Prints [35979]
Central Mass Auctions. Eliot Ness Memorabilia [92712]
Christie’s. Collection of Helene Rochas [3538]
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books online bidding ending today [201239]
Mealy’s Auctioneer’s. Rare Book and Collectors Sale continuing [92612]
Morton Casa de Subastas. Monclau Collection Antique Books [645]
PBA Galleries. Americana – Afri can American History – Travel and Exploration [489]
Sat. Sept. 29th Neret – Minet & Tessier. Comic Strips [13876]
There are certainly more to come.
Here is a link to the unified auction search.
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
