Rare Book Hub has announced its annual list of the top 500 prices paid at auction for books and other paper collectibles in 2025. Prices at the top end backed off a bit in 2025, but not by much. The previous year's numbers had been record prices. The dollars of top collectors are still flowing freely as we enter a new year.
We measure the strength of high end prices by the price of lot #500. In other words, what is the minimum price at which at least 500 books and paper collectibles were sold at auction in 2025? The answer is $109,800. In 2024, that number was $119,700, almost $10,000 m...
After a very strong auction market in 2025, we’re projecting the number of collectible paper auctions will reach 4,380 in 2026.
A year ago (2024), it was big news when collectible paper auction...
A Nov. 21 court decision reinstated all the cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal agency which acts as a conduit for funding for museums and libraries. The reversal...
A book once banned, burned, stolen, suppressed in Johnson County, Wyoming, has now made its way to the Johnson County Library shelves. Time heals all, and the people on each side of this violent co...
Rarebooksla.com will soon be staging their Rare Books Pasadena Book Fair, on February 21st 22nd. As of 12/27 they have already received 79 exhibitor reservations, prompting them to add a second lo...
Our rates for 2026-27 remain the same while our services are increasing:
Our Transactions+ has grown during 2025. A year ago, we were offering 14,600,113 full text records. As of today, 12/26/2...
Let’s travel through Canada and the North of the United States in 1806, 1807 and 1808! Meet our guide, John Lambert (1775-circa 1816), an English emissary with artistic aspirations, who left a prec...
And the word of the year is... It's hard to say. Everyone has a word of the year. We will look first to Oxford (University Press) because “Oxford” is a word that says erudite and intellectual thing...
Case Auctions are beginning their two-day 2026 Winter Fine Art Antiques Sale on January 31st, that will continue February 1st. Between the two days they are offering more than 1,300 lots, divided...
A possibly unique carte de visite (CDV) portrait of Edgar Allan Poe from the work of Mathew B. Brady, the most prominent American photographer of the 19th century, was sold on Nov. 19 by University...
Cohasco: An Interesting Source for RBH readers
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After the end of World War II, dealers and auction houses quickly emerged to test the ...
An 1860 Munsell printing that still looks pretty good
For years I have searched for imprints associated with Joel Munsell, the 19th century Albany, New York printer who recorded his printing hi...
Shapero Rare Books presents “Present Indicative.” You'll have to check out the catalogue to see what that's all about. David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books offers a new selection of Rare American...
University Archives Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration January 7, 2026
University Archives, Jan. 7: Jefferson's Owned & Signed "Plutarch's Morals" Vol. 4. - 1st Time At Auction In Nearly 200 Years!
University Archives, Jan. 7: Flown NASA Hasselblad 203S Space Camera On Endeavour STS-111, With Components, Data Module & Flown Film Magazine!
University Archives, Jan. 7: One Of The Finest Lincoln Assassination Letters Extant, April 15, 1865 - Illustrated & Beyond Dramatic! 8pp.
University Archives Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration January 7, 2026
University Archives, Jan. 7: Isaac Newton Highly Important Religious Manuscript With 85+ Words In His Hand, Ex-Bonhams
University Archives, Jan. 7: Marilyn Monroe Gorgeous Signed & Inscribed Photograph, PSA Authenticated
University Archives, Jan. 7: Rare Ernest Hemingway, 1 Of 10 Signed Presentation Copies Of "Farewell To Arms"
University Archives Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration January 7, 2026
University Archives, Jan. 7: Ayn Rand 11pp Revised AMS "The Cold Civil War" For LA Times Newspaper- 900+ Words In Her Hand!
University Archives, Jan. 7: Mary Todd Lincoln Calls Abe A "great & good man, who loved & served his country so well"
University Archives, Jan. 7: Abraham Lincoln Gives Rebel Woman Pass To Visit Prisoner Of War Husband, Showing A Very Human Lincoln!
University Archives Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration January 7, 2026
University Archives, Jan. 7: Babe Ruth PSA Type II Signed Conlon Photo, With Ruth Miniature Louisville Slugger, 16.25"
University Archives, Jan. 7: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin Signed Photo - Prime Crew Apollo 11 - PSA Authenticated
University Archives, Jan. 7: Huge Abraham Lincoln Hesler Photo, Ca. 1880 - As If He Were In The Room!
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Bonhams: Consign With Us Today These are the Times that Try Men's Souls. Paine, Thomas. Sold for US$152,900.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today The First Printed Work on Political Economy. Sold for US$127,000.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today Signed Lincoln Photograph with Son Tad. Sold for US$76,700.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today First Expanded Edition of Common Sense. Paine, Thomas. Sold for US$76,700.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today Presentation Copy of Hemmingway's First Book. Sold for US$70,350.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today St. John's Gospel on Vellum, A Fragment in Greek, 5th Century. Sold for US$70,350.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today Only A Handful of Surviving Copies. Joyce, James. Ulysses. Sold for US$58,880.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today A Pivotal Step in Einstein's Development of General Relativity. Sold for US$51,200.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sold for US$56,320.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today Joyce's Annotated Typescript Draft for Finnegan's Wake. Sold for US$48,640.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today One of 30 Pre-Publication Copies, Inscribed by Hemingway to Spencer Tracy, Who Played "The Old Man". Sold for US$83,050.
Sotheby’s Year in Review
Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
