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Articles - January - 2013 Issue

Auctions in January

- by Bruce E. McKinney

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]

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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
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    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.

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