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M-Rare Book Hub: 123 Auctions Archived, another 84 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended 22 November, 123 auctions have been archived to Rare Book Hub’s Transactions+: 1 denominated in Australian dollars, 2 in Czech korona, 39 in euros, 12 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, 1 in Norwegian krone, 1 in New Zealand dollars, I in Polish zloty, 3 in Swedish krona, 61 in US dollars and 1 in South African rand.

 

 

Turnover was $44,618,922.02. The average lot brought $2,963.73.

 

 

This report includes this past week’s Top 25s for 15 categories, full details for this past week’s sales, as well as a full listing of the upcoming week’s 84 sales.

 

 

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Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Sothebys Ads on November 19th Actual price: USD $2,978,000.
  2. Christies Untitled Film Still #13 on November 19th Actual price: USD $2,271,000.
  3. Sothebys La Minotauromachie on November 18th Actual price: USD $2,063,000.
  4. Sothebys Water Lilies with Willows, from the Water Lilies series on November 19th Actual price: USD $1,514,000.
  5. Christies Water Lily Pond with Reflections on November 20th Actual price: USD $1,397,000.
  6. Christies Nude with Blue Hair, State I on November 20th Actual price: USD $1,079,500.
  7. Sothebys Walking Women, Paris on November 18th Actual price: USD $1,000,000.
  8. RR Auction The Complete Secrets of Kryptos: Jim Sanborn's Private Archive on November 20th Actual price: USD $962,500.
  9. Christies Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. on November 19th Actual price: USD $952,169.
  10. Christies Untitled (Cowboy) on November 20th Actual price: USD $889,000.
  11. Sothebys The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 25 April on November 19th Actual price: USD $762,000.
  12. Sothebys The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 19 May on November 19th Actual price: USD $762,000.
  13. Sothebys The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 12 May on November 19th Actual price: USD $635,000.
  14. Sothebys The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 8 January on November 19th Actual price: USD $609,600.
  15. Sothebys Juan Patricio Lobato, Carney, Rocky Ford, Colorado, August 23, 1980 on November 19th Actual price: USD $609,600.
  16. Sothebys The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 29 January on November 19th Actual price: USD $533,400.
  17. Bonhams Green on November 19th Actual price: USD $419,600.
  18. Sothebys The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 14 May on November 19th Actual price: USD $419,100.
  19. Christies Untitled Film Still #52 on November 20th Actual price: USD $406,400.
  20. Sothebys The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 30 May on November 19th Actual price: USD $406,400.
  21. Christies Pensees de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets. on November 19th Actual price: USD $322,273.
  22. Christies War Cut II on November 20th Actual price: USD $266,700.
  23. Sothebys Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi) on November 19th Actual price: USD $263,678.
  24. Sothebys Untitled Film Still #49 on November 19th Actual price: USD $219,731.
  25. Sothebys The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 25 February on November 19th Actual price: USD $215,900.
  • <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>29th January 2026</b></center> <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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 <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>29th January 2026</b></center> <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Shakespeare (William). <i>The Dramatic Works,</i> 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Joyce (James). <i>Ulysses,</i> first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000 <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>29th January 2026</b></center> <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Chaucer (Geoffrey). <i>Troilus and Criseyde,</i> one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Borges (Jorge Luis). <i>Luna de Enfrente,</i> first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Nolli (Giovanni Battista). <i>Nuova Pianta di Roma,</i> Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000 <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>29th January 2026</b></center> <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Roberts (David). <i>The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia,</i> 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Blacker (William). <i>Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing,</i> Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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
    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
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana<br>27 January 2026</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000. <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana<br>27 January 2026</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> (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. <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [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.
    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.