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M-Rare Book Hub: 91 Auctions Archived, another 89 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended 6 November, 91 auctions have been archived to Rare Book Hub’s Transactions+: 1 denominated in Canadian dollars, 23 in euros, 17 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, 1 in New Zealand dollars, 2 in Polish Zloty, and 46 in US dollars.

 

 

Turnover was $16,737,719.57. The average lot brought $1,258.85.

 

 

This report includes this past week’s Top 25s for 14 categories, full details for this past week’s sales, as well as a full listing of the upcoming week’s 89 sales.

 

 

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Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Heritage Auctions A Princess of Mars, 1970 on November 4th Actual price: USD $1,437,500.
  2. Christies Salome on November 5th Actual price: USD $952,160.
  3. Bonhams Brian Duffy (1933-2010): The original dye transfer artwork print for David Bowie's iconic Aladdin Sane album cover, on November 5th Actual price: USD $500,366.
  4. Swann Galleries (Album.) Autograph album containing 29 ALsS by each of the U.S. presidents from Washington to Coolidge. Vp, 1785-1945. on November 6th Actual price: USD $248,160.
  5. Swann Galleries Franz Schubert. Autograph Musical manuscript, unsigned, fragment from Der Taucher, Np, 1813. on November 6th Actual price: USD $125,730.
  6. Christies Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la verite dans les sciences , plus La dioptrique, Les meteores et La geometrie qui sont des essais de cette methode on November 5th Actual price: USD $102,540.
  7. Christies Ensemble des Voyage en Orient et Voyage en Espagne on November 5th Actual price: USD $95,216.
  8. Christies Delle cose antiche della citta di Roma on November 5th Actual price: USD $95,216.
  9. Heritage Auctions Pierrot and Columbine, Vanity Fair magazine cover, June 1915 on November 4th Actual price: USD $87,500.
  10. Heritage Auctions Winnie-the-Pooh book cover & interior studies (five works), 1926 on November 4th Actual price: USD $87,500.
  11. Heritage Auctions Space Station Under Construction, Sunday Mirror Magazine interior, June 19, 1949 on November 4th Actual price: USD $87,500.
  12. Christies [UTOPIA :] De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus vere aureus... on November 5th Actual price: USD $65,919.
  13. Heritage Auctions Ballerina, 1946 on November 4th Actual price: USD $61,250.
  14. Heritage Auctions A Song of Faith, The Delineator magazine interior, December 1905 on November 4th Actual price: USD $60,000.
  15. Christies Calligrammes. Poemes de la paix et de la guerre (1913-1916) on November 5th Actual price: USD $58,594.
  16. Christies Egypt & Nubia. From drawings made on the spot....with historical descriptions by William Brockedon on November 5th Actual price: USD $58,594.
  17. Heritage Auctions Michael Golden Marvel Fanfare #2 Man-Spider First Appearance Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1982). on November 6th Actual price: USD $57,500.
  18. Heritage Auctions Rest-A-While, The Saturday Evening Post cover, August 11, 1928 on November 4th Actual price: USD $55,000.
  19. Heritage Auctions John Cassaday Planetary #1 Cover Original Art (DC/Wildstorm, 1999). on November 6th Actual price: USD $52,500.
  20. Heritage Auctions Treebeard, Lord of the Rings calendar, August 1976 on November 4th Actual price: USD $52,500.
  21. Heritage Auctions Halloween Smiles, The Saturday Evening Post cover, November 3, 1934 on November 4th Actual price: USD $47,500.
  22. Christies Liber chronicarum on November 5th Actual price: USD $46,876.
  23. Forum Auctions The Old Huntsman. And other Poems on November 6th Actual price: USD $45,819.
  24. Heritage Auctions She Shows Up Every Halloween, New Yorker cartoon, October 30, 1937 on November 4th Actual price: USD $45,000.
  25. ALDE Le Quart livre des faicts & dictz heroiques du bon Pantagruel... Nouvellement reveu & corrige par ledict autheur, pour la deuxiesme edition. on November 5th Actual price: USD $41,812.

 

  • 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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000