Auction Update Review

M-Rare Book Hub: 108 Auctions Archived, another XX Upcoming this Week


11 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars:

26 auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered in the sale:

57 sales saw at least 80% of their lots sell:

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Bruce Mckinney


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Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Heritage Auctions Superman #1 (DC, 1939) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. on November 22nd Actual price: USD $9,120,000.
  2. Sothebys Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), also known as The Great Wave, Edo period, 19th century on November 22nd Actual price: USD $2,793,248.
  3. Heritage Auctions Frank Frazetta Luana US Movie Poster / Vampirella #31 Cover Original Art (Capital Productions, 1973/Warren Publications, 1974). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $1,750,000.
  4. Heritage Auctions Neal Adams Superman #233 Cover Original Art (DC, 1971). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $1,500,000.
  5. Sothebys Sudden Rain beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), also known as Black Fuji, Edo period, 19th century on November 22nd Actual price: USD $914,411.
  6. Koller Auctions Buste de femme d'apres Cranach le Jeune. 1958. on November 27th Actual price: USD $745,034.
  7. Sothebys Fine Wind, Clear Weather (Gaifu kaisei), also known as Red Fuji, Edo period, 19th century on November 22nd Actual price: USD $734,795.
  8. Heritage Auctions Frank Frazetta The Moon Men Paperback Novel Cover Original Art (Ace, 1974). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $718,750.
  9. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. on November 24th Actual price: USD $378,657.
  10. Heritage Auctions Frank Frazetta ERB-dom #78 Centerfold Painting Original Art (Camille Cazedessus, 1974). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $350,000.
  11. Heritage Auctions Action Comics #15 (DC, 1939) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. on November 22nd Actual price: USD $264,000.
  12. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus. 2 Teile in 1 Band. on November 24th Actual price: USD $235,156.
  13. Koller Auctions Apple. 1985. on November 27th Actual price: USD $222,517.
  14. Heritage Auctions Todd McFarlane The Amazing Spider-Man #316 Story Page 7 Original Art (Marvel, 1989). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $218,750.
  15. Heritage Auctions Frank Frazetta - Leopard Painting Original Art (undated). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $212,500.
  16. Koller Auctions Grevy's Zebra. 1983. on November 27th Actual price: USD $206,623.
  17. Heritage Auctions Captain America Comics #1 (Timely, 1941) CGC VG/FN 5.0 White pages. on November 22nd Actual price: USD $204,000.
  18. Heritage Auctions Action Comics #12 (DC, 1939) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. on November 22nd Actual price: USD $204,000.
  19. Heritage Auctions Stagecoach (United Artists, 1939). Folded, Very Fine+. One Sheet (27" X 41"). on November 21st Actual price: USD $200,000.
  20. 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 $188,000.
  21. Heritage Auctions Gustaf Tenggren Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Movie Poster Illustration Original Art (Walt Disney, 1937). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $187,500.
  22. Heritage Auctions Sal Buscema The Defenders #11 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1973). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $175,000.
  23. Heritage Auctions Todd McFarlane Spider-Man #13 Black Costume Story Page 14 Original Art (Marvel, 1991). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $162,500.
  24. Galerie Bassenge Das Rhinozeros on November 26th Actual price: USD $155,748.
  25. Heritage Auctions Robert Williams Psychic Pedestrians On a Spiral Horizon (Barycenter) Painting Original Art (1971). on November 23rd Actual price: USD $150,000.
  • 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.
  • 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