Rare Book Monthly

Articles - January - 2013 Issue

Auctions in January

We start 2013 with a Jack Benny – 39 sales on the schedule.  For January 2012 we covered 36.  We expect to add others as the month progresses.

Tuesday Jan. 1st Bruun Rasmussen.  Modern Prints [1301].  57 lots

Thursday Jan. 3rd      Heritage Auctions.  Rare Books internet bidding ends today [201301].  249 lots

Sunday Jan. 6th          National Book Auctions.  Books, Ephemera [10613].

Monday Jan. 7th         Bruun Rasmussen.  Old Prints [1302a].  4 lots

Tuesday Jan. 8th        Bruun Rasmussen.  Old Prints [1302b].   52 lots

Thursday Jan. 10th    PBA Galleries.  Architecture [497].  183 lots

                                    Heritage Auctions.   Rare Books internet bidding ends today [201302].

Saturday Jan. 12th   Hauff and Auvermann.  Rare Books, Photography, and Art [69].    637 lots

                                    Clars Auction Gallery.  Fine Art Prints, Photographs and Works on Paper [11213].

Sunday Jan. 13th  Bonhams.  Books and Prints [20892].  80 lots

                                    Clars Auction Gallery.  Fine Art Prints, Photographs and Works on Paper [11213].

Wed. Jan. 16th  Lyon and Turnbull.  Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs [373].  565 lots

Thurs. Jan. 17th   Bloomsbury Auctions.  Bibliophile Books [11713].

                                    Heritage Auctions.  Rare Books internet bidding ends today [201303]. 

 

Friday Jan. 18th          Guernsey’s.  Hans Sachs Poster Collection – Day 1 [35780]

                                    Jeschke – van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH.  Rare Books [85]

Saturday Jan. 19th     Guernsey’s.  Hans Sachs Poster Collection – Day 2 [35806]

Sunday Jan. 20th        Bonhams.  Prints [20893]

                                    Guernsey’s.  Prints [35808]

                                    JMW Auction Gallery.  Books and Ephemera [1606708].

                                    Bonhams.  Xi’an Incident, The Papers of Hylan “Budd” Lyon [21070]

Wed. Jan. 23rd  Rupert Toovey and Co.  Prints [1098].

                                    ERA Encheres.  Beautiful Books and Bindings [20683]

Thurs. Jan. 24th          Bloomsbury Auctions.  Antiquarian Books [12413]

                                    Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers.  Books, Day 1 [1071]

                                    PBA Galleries. Americana – Asian-American History – Travel – Maps and Views [498].

                                    Swann Galleries.   20th Century Illustration Original Art / Books, Featuring Maurice Sendak [2300]

                                    Heritage Auctions.  Rare Books.  Internet bidding ends today [201304]

 

Friday Jan. 25th    Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers.  Books, Day 2 [1072]

                                    Sothebys.  Prints [N08950]

Saturday Jan. 26th    Robert C. Eldred, Inc.  Prints [778].

                                    Morton Casa de Subastas.  Maps [660].

                                    Sotheby’s.  Prints [N08950]

Tuesday Jan 29th    Christie’s.  Old Master Prints [2778].

                                    Sotheby’s.  Property of the Estate of Giancarlo Baroni [N08857]

Wed. Jan. 30th           Dominic Winter Book Auctions.  Printed Books, Maps and Ephemera [13013]

                                    Gray’s Auctioneers.  Prints [64].

                                    Sotheby’s.  Property of the Estate of Giancarlo Baroni [N08857]

Thursday Jan. 31st   Bloomsbury Auctions. Maps and Atlases [13113].

                                    AntiquarianAuctions.com  Rare Books internet bidding ends today [201305]

                                    Heritage Auctions.  Rare Books internet bidding ends today [201305]

Rare Book Monthly

  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.

Article Search

Archived Articles