eCatalogues on Rare Book Hub: Are they part of your future?
- by Bruce E. McKinney
eCatalogues are the future: Welcome!
eCatalogues on Rare Book Hub: Are they part of your future?
Rare Book Hub is used to follow the world-wide collectible paper auction market. As a sidebar, we now provide a side-by-side eCatalogue search for dealers, collectors and libraries. Why?
Because auctions have developed a very efficient model, that I believe dealers can learn from. Auctions live in a high-pressure world. If they accept saleable lots, describe and estimate them correctly they are virtually guaranteed to sell 80% of them. Those dealers who begin to post their eCatalogues with us will develop sufficient experience with eCatalogues to consider whether they might want to take the next step, to report sales as all auctions do. If so, we could then post and rank their sales by category, total dollars and percentage of lots sold. This would lead us to add a database of dealer offers and outcomes.
If you wish to start posting your eCatalogues, you simply need to be at least a 30-day visitor. You can post 1 eCatalogue. If a research member, you can post 2 a month. Octavo members can post weekly.
For listers who do not have a website, we provide a service we call Lynx (Lynx Connect).
If you have questions, you can reach me at bmckinney@rarebookhub.com or by phone (877) 323-7273 or (415) 823-6678.
Sotheby’s Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana 27 January 2026
Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
Sotheby’s Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana 27 January 2026
Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
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