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Articles - August - 2013 Issue

Auctions in August 2013

Auctions in August. A quiet month? Not so much.

This month there are 43 events posted to the auction calendar.  This passes for a quiet month but it is actually the busiest August on record.  A generation ago auction houses took August off but not anymore.  The calendars in the high months are so busy – with a hundred sales that it has made sense to move into a 24/7/365 auction schedule.  We are there now, always connected to the Internet, able to follow sales on line and bid electronically and on the phone.

Thurs. Aug. 1      Eldred’s.  Books, Prints, Maps [782].  129 lots

                                    Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Illustration Art [5140].  432 lots

                                    Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Vintage Comics and Comic Art [7079].  1,203 lots

                                    Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Rare Books online bidding ending today [201331].  218 lots

Fri. Aug. 2                Eldred’s.  Books, Prints, Maps [782].  129 lots

                                    Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Vintage Comics and Comic Art [7079].  1,203 lots

                                    Northeast Auctions.  Americana – Historical Prints [13].  132 lots

Sat. Aug. 3               Addison and Sarova.  The Dawning & Awakening:  A Nation, A Religion, & An Art Form [1004].  369 lots

                                    Northeast Auctions.  Americana – Historical Prints [13].  132 lots

Sun. Aug. 4             National Book Auctions.  Books and Ephemera – Incunabulum, Ltd. Ed. Club, Burchfield, etc. [8042013].  333 lots

                                   Northeast Auctions.  Americana – Historical Prints [13].  132 lots

Mon. Aug. 5           Bruun Rasmussen.  Old Prints [1332a].  3 lots

Tues. Aug. 6           Bruun Rasmussen.  Modern Prints [1332b].  42 lots

                                    Rupert Toovey and Co.  Photographs, Autographs, Printed and Manuscript Ephemera [1141]

Wed, Aug. 7             Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.  Fine Books and Manuscripts [253].  394  lots.

                                    Rupert Toovey and Co.  Prints [1147].

                                    Swann Galleries.  Vintage Posters [2321].  438 lots

Thurs. Aug. 8           Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Rare Books.  Internet bidding ending today [201332].

                                    PBA Galleries.  Fine Books in all Fields [512].  557 lots

Sat. Aug. 10          Clars Auction Gallery.  Prints, Photographs [81013].

                                    Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Entertainment and Music Memorabilia [7081].  326 lots

Sun. Aug. 11       Clars Auction Gallery.  Prints, Photographs [81013].

Mon. Aug. 12          Bruun Rasmussen.  Old Prints [1333a].  23 lots

Tues. Aug. 13            Bonhams.  Pictures, Prints and Maps [21459].  16 lots

                                    Bruun Rasmussen.  Modern Prints [1333b].

Wed. Aug. 14           Blacksparrow.  The Hollywood Collection – Photographs and Autographs [81413].

                                    Doyle New York.  End of Summer Sale – Prints [81413].

                                    RR Auction.  Autographs [413].  1,662 lots

Thurs. Aug. 15          Bloomsbury Auctions.  Bibliophile [36072].

                                    Heritage Auctions.  Rare Books [201333].  Online bidding ending today.

Tues. Aug, 20            James D. Julia.  Prints, Globes, Manuscripts:  Session I [345a].  44 lots

Wed. Aug. 21           Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood.  Books, Maps and Prints [BK10].

                                    Bonhams.  Scottish Sale:  Books, Maps, Prints [20653].  110 lots

                                    Cowan’s.  World at War [369].

                                    Eldred’s.  The Prints of Paul Jacoulet [774].

                                    James D. Julia Auctioneers.  Prints, Manuscripts:  Session II [345b].  20 lots

                                    Morton Casa de Subastas.  Books, Historical Documents, Prints and Photographs [678].

Thurs. Aug. 22        Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Rare Book, internet bidding ending today. [201334].

                                    James D. Julia Auctioneers.  Prints:  Session III [345c].

                                    PBA Galleries.  Rare Gold Books and Memorabilia [513].

Fri. Aug. 23              James D. Julia Auctioneers.  Prints, Manuscripts:  Session IV [345d].  56 lots

Sun. Aug. 25            Bonhams.  Prints, Books [20991].

Thurs. Aug. 29         Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Rare Books.  Internet bidding ending today.

Use the AED Global Auction Search [at the top of AE pages] to search all lots currently posted.

Rare Book Monthly

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    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: U.S. / European Shipping Archive 1800-1814. The Widow Bermingham & Sons Collection. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Constitution of Ireland. An important copy of the First Printing of De Valera’s new Constitution, approved in 1938. Signed by the Constitution Cabinet. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €7,000 to €9,000.
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    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
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    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Cantillon (Richard). Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, Traduit de l'Anglois, Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Gregory, (Lady Augusta). Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series. €3,000 to €4,000.
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    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Lavery (Lady Hazel). A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927, expressing her grief at the death of Kevin O'Higgins. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Dampier (Wm.) Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde, ou l'on descrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique…, 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1698. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Howell (James). Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time…, London, 1642. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
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    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1999, First Edn., First Printing of Deluxe Collectors Edn. Signed. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: James (Wm.) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of The Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America. 2 vols. Lond. 1818. €650 to €900.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: The Laws of the United States, Published by Authority, 3 vols. Philadelphia (Richard Folwell) 1796. €600 to €800.

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