For the week just ended fifteen auctions were archived:  five denominated in dollars, four in British pounds, one in Australian dollars, and five in Euros.  Four thousand seven hundred and forty-five lots were offered and 3,557sold for a 75% success rate.  For lots sold the aggregate low estimate were $5,093,004 and the aggregate high $7,461,071.  Total sales were $8,531,258 and the total high estimate of all sold [sold and unsold] was $10,521,109.  Total sales amounted to 81% of the aggregate high estimate.  It was a good week.

Four sales reached or exceeded the total of their high estimates:

Ferraton:  Ancient and Modern Books, Prints and Photographies – 2^nd Vacation – 153%;

Christie’s:  Travel, Science and Natural History – 130%

Alde:  Ancient and Modern Books – XIX century – 124%;

Christie’s:  L’age d’or du rail – 117%;

For the week ahead 11 sales are scheduled:

October 4^th Bonhams:  Travel and Photography [18942]

                        Rupert Toovey and Co.:  Books, Photos, Prints, Ephemera [987]                       

October 5^th Dominic Winter:  Printed Books & Maps [10511]

                        Sothebys:  Photographs [NO8775]

October 6^th Alde:  Pierre Jean Remy Library [17316]

                        Bloomsbury Auctions:  Bibliophile [Godalming] [35842]

                        Christie’s:  Photographs [2470]

                        Dominic Winter:  Natural History [10611]

                        PBA Galleries:  Rare Americana [464]

October 7^th Christie’s:  The American Landscape, Black and White Photographs from
The Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman [2515]

                        Tajan:  Books [100711]

Bruce McKinney
3 October 2011