Auction Update Review

Down to the Wire

For the week ending Saturday November 3rd 34 auctions were archived to the AED.  Turnover was $36,634,712, 81% of the aggregate high estimate of all lots offered.  Eleven thousand one hundred and twelve lots were offered and 6,816 lots sold for a 61% success rate.  Sotheby’s and Christies did the heavy lifting with their prints and multiples sales, between them 587 lots brought $18,490,041 or $31,499 a lot.

 

Nine sales reached a million dollars:

 

Sotheby’s.  Prints in New York on November 1st:  $11,619,000

Christies.  Prints and Multiples in New York on October 30th:  $6,749,100

Christies.  Collection of Books in London on October 29th:  $4,224,200

Christies.  Collection of an Amateur Bibliophile in Paris on October 30th:  $2,461,743

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Enki Bilaf – “Oxymore” Last Paintings on October 29th:  $1,870,083

Christies.  Important Antiquarian Books, Art Books and Manuscripts in London on October 29th:  $1,675,429

Christies.  Vintage Posters in London on November 1st:  $1,411,667

Christies.  Sporting Books in London on October 30th:  $1,174,584

Heritage Auctions.  Space Exploration on November 2nd:   $1,009,462

 

Eight sales saw their proceeds exceed 100% of the aggregate high estimate of all lots offered:

 

Christies.  Collection of Books in London on October 29th:  211%

Dorotheum.  Books and Decorative Prints on October 30th:  164%

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Enki Bilaf – “Oxymore” Last Paintings on October 29th:  137%

Christies.  Collection of an Amateur Bibliophile in Paris on October 30th:  120%

Bruun Rasmussen.  Old, Modern Prints on October 29th:  112%

Ader.  Free Masonry on October 23rd:  111%

Audap & Mirabaud.  Historical Memories on  October 23rd:  106%

Ader.  Ancient and Modern Books on October 24th:  102%

 

Ten sales saw 80% or more of their lots sell:

 

Dirk Soulis.  A 50 Year Sale on October 27th:  100%

Audap & Mirabaud.  Women give to Women on October 18th:  100%

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Enki Bilaf – “Oxymore” Last Paintings on October 29th:  100%

Christies.  Collection of an Amateur Bibliophile in Paris on October 30th:  88%

Knotty Pine Auction Service.  Antique and Estate Books on October 27th:  87%

Bruun Rasmussen.  Old, Modern Prints on October 29th:  87%

Dorotheum.  Books and Decorative Prints on October 30th:  86%

Heritage Auctions.  Space Exploration on November 2nd:  83%

Rupert Toovey and Company.  Antiquarian and Collectors Books on October 9th:  81%

Bloomsbury Auctions.  Bibliophile Sale on November 1st:  80%

 

For the week ahead 25 sales are scheduled:

 

Monday Nov. 5th    Doyle New York.  Books, Photographs and Prints [110512].  774 lots

 

Tuesday Nov. 6th       Amsterdam Book Auctions.  Books, prints, comics, posters [18].  297 lots

                                    Rupert Toovey & Co.  Photographs, Ephemera [1083].  131 lots

                                    Swann Galleries.   Old Master Through Modern Prints; including Salvador Dali Prints,
  Drawings, Art Books [2292].  495 lots

 

Wed. Nov. 7th         Audap & Mirabaud.  Books [19716].  350 lots

                                    Bonhams.  Sporting Sale [19873].  54 lots

                                    Leslie Hindman.  Fine Books and Manuscripts [216].  580 lots

                                    Zisska & Schauer.  Books, Manuscripts, Incunabula [60a].  826 lots

 

Thurs. Nov. 8th           Aguttes.  Books, Posters, Photos [20050].  189 lots

                                    Bloomsbury Auctions.  Sporting Goods [35993].  487 lots

                                    De Baecque & Associes.  Books, Comic Books and Autographs.  161 lots [20158]

                                    Dorotheum.  Prints [9737].  60 lots

                                    Heritage Auctions.  Rare Books internet bidding ending today.  406 lots

                                    PBA Galleries.  Rare Books and Manuscripts [492].  270 lots

                                    Swann Galleries.  Rare & Important Travel Posters [2293].  201 lots

                                    Zisska & Schauer.  Books, Manuscripts, Incunabula [60b].  814 lots

                                    Zisska & Schauer.  Books, Manuscripts, Incunabula [60c].  661 lots

 

Friday Nov. 9th           Librairie Loeb-Larocque.  Antique Maps – Old Books [110912].  314 lots

                                   

                                    Binoche and Giquello.  Ancient and Modern Books, Atlases [13881].  321 lots

                                    Zisska & Schauer.  Books, Manuscripts [60d].  801 lots

 

Saturday Nov. 10th    Clars Auction Gallery.  Photographs, Prints, Special Collection [111012].  55 lots

                                    Cottone.  Prints [67].  17 lots

                                    Dirk Soulis Auctions.  Prints [33820].  130 lots

 

Sunday Nov. 11th       Bonhams.  Prints [20069].

                                    Bruun Rasmussen.  Books [1245]

 

For the week ahead the auction surge continues.  Every 6 hours and 43 minutes another sale will begin.  Altogether 8,394 lots for these sales are posted and searchable in the upcoming auction search.

 

Bruce McKinney

AE
November 4th, 2012

  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.