Auction Update Review: Some Early Strength | The Week ending January 19 ,2013 « Rare Book Hub - Rare Books, Book Auctions, Antiquarian Book Collecting

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [Paine, Thomas]. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America… Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776. $200,000 to $250,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Lincoln, Abraham. Autograph letter signed, to Joshua Reed Giddings, 21 May 1860. $80,000 to $120,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Oakley, Annie. A Brief Sketch of Her Career and Notes on Shooting. [N.p.]: ca. 1913, Signed. $2,000 to $3,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Washington, George. One autograph letter signed & 3 letters signed to General Alexander McDougall, September 1777. $70,000 to $100,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible World. Being an account of the tryals of several witches... London: 1693. $30,000 to $40,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: James, Benjamin. A Treatise on the Management of the Teeth. Boston, 1814. $2,000 to $3,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Emil Cardinaux, Winter in der Schweiz, 1921. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Evelyn Rumsey Carey, Pan American Exposition / Niagara / Buffalo, 1901. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Arnost Hofbauer, Topicuv Salon, 1898. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Alphonse Mucha, Job, 1896. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Georges de Feure, Le Journal des Ventes, 1898. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Alphonse Mucha, Cycles Perfecta, 1897. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Edward Penfield, Orient Cycles / Lead the Leaders, circa 1895. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Adrien Barrère, L’Ideal du Touriste, 1903. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Willem Frederick Ten Broek, New York / Wereldtentoonselling / Holland – Amerika Lijn, 1938. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Dwight Clark Shepler, Sun Valley / Union Pacific. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Sascha Maurer, Flexible Flyer Splitkein / Smuggler’s Notch, circa 1935. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 13: Louis Bonhajo, Vote / League of Women Voters, 1920. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center>Case Antiques Important Two-Day Winter Auction January 25 & 26, 2020

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Signed Abraham Lincoln Civil War era document appointing Green Clay of Kentucky as Secretary of the Legation of the United States at St. Petersburg, Russia, July 15, 1861. $3,000 to $3,500.

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Original Bambi (1942) animation cel, inscribed Walt Disney's Bambi and signed Walt Disney. $3,000 to $3,500.

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Original Snow White animation cel, with Walt Disney signature on mat, lower right. $3,000 to $3,500.

<center>Case Antiques Important Two-Day Winter Auction January 25 & 26, 2020

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Civil Rights Era Archive relating to U.S. Deputy Marshal Dick Bagby (1933-2003) of Dallas, TX, including letters from President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General. $1,400 to $1,800.

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: President Andrew Jackson autograph letter, unsigned, regarding a special presentation cane sent via General John Moore McCalla to Gov. George Breathitt of Kentucky. January 18th, 1833. $800 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Four (4) Presidential signed 17th/18th Century Books - two signed by Millard Fillmore, and two signed by James Buchanan. $1,000 to $1,200.

<center>Case Antiques Important Two-Day Winter Auction January 25 & 26, 2020

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: President Andrew Jackson signed military commission document conferring on George Washington McLean the rank of Second Lieutenant of Marines. Signed January 4, 1834. $800 to $1,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Three (3) Southern Maps, including two (2) Antonio Zatta 1778, one (1) South Carolina 1796. $600 to $800.

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Black Forest German Forestry Apprenticeship Certificate issued to Carl Heshel by Von Fahnenburg, the Forest Master from the Royal District, February 1, 1824. $500 to $550.

<center>Case Antiques Important Two-Day Winter Auction January 25 & 26, 2020

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, signed 40th anniversary edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1999. $300 to $350.

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Archive of twenty-five (25) items related to the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and President Lyndon Baines Johnson. $400 to $500.

Case Antiques, Jan. 25-26: Sixteen (16) 20th Century Celebrity Autographed Books, including Paul Newman, A. E. Hotcher, Leonard Bernstein, Clint Eastwood, Norman Rockwell, Groucho Marx, Johnny Cash, and more. $300 to $350.

Auction Update Review

Some Early Strength

For the week ending Saturday January 19^th 7 auctions were archived to the AED; 3 in US dollars, 2 in British pounds and 2 in euros. Total turnover was $1,642,742. The total of the high estimates of all lots was $2,140,511. Two thousand one hundred and fourteen lots were offered and 1,620 sold for a 77% success rate. The recent trend has been for reserves to be modest and it’s helping to clear materials accumulating to sell. It’s a healthy trend although too early to say what it portends for the important spring season.

One indicator is clear; the number of sales posted in the January auction calendar. That number in 2012 was 32, this January 51.

Only one sale saw total sales exceed 100% of the total of their high estimates:

Lyons and Turnbull. Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photography on January 16^th: 111%

Their runner up was Bloomsbury Auctions’ Bibliophile Books on January 17^th: 93%

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

Heritage Auctions. Rare Books Internet sale ended January 17^th: 91%

Bloomsbury Auctions. Bibliophile Books on January 17^th: 88%

Lyon and Turnbull. Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs on January 16^th: 82%.

For the week ahead 18 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jan. 21^stBruun Rasmussen. Old Prints [1304a]. 23 lots

Copley Fine Art. Sporting Prints, Books [12113]. 48 lots

Tues. Jan 22^nd Bruun Rasmussen. Modern Prints [1304b]. 49 lots

Wed. Jan. 23^rd Rupert Toovey and Co. Prints [1098]. 37 lots

Thurs. Jan. 24^th Bloomsbury Auctions. Antiquarian Books [12413]. 202 lots

Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Books, Day 1 [1071]. 730 lots

PBA Galleries. Americana – Asian-American History – Travel – Maps and Views [498]. 434 lots

Swann Galleries. 20^th Century Illustration Original Art / Books, Featuring Maurice Sendak [2300]. 281 lots

Heritage Auctions. Rare Books. Internet bidding ends today [201304]. 201 lots

Rossini. Posters [20990] 299 lots

Friday Jan. 25^th Christies. American Prints [2670]. 14 lots

Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Books, Day 2 [1072]. 122 lots

Sothebys. Audubon Prints [N08950]. 39 lots

Saturday Jan. 26^th Robert C. Eldred, Inc. Prints, Books [778]. 50 lots

Morton Casa de Subastas. Maps [660]. 202 lots

Sotheby’s. Prints [N08950]. 39 lots

Neret – Minet & Tessier/ Marine – Voyages [15190].

Sun. Jan 27^th National Book Auctions. Books and Ephemera – Americana, Antique, Firsts, Nautical, etc. [01272013]

Here is a link to the RecentAuctions Spreadsheet. It’s still being tweaked but is already useful.

It’s much too early to see any pattern other than the rising volume present all through continues into 2013.

Bruce McKinney

20 January 2013

<center>Chiswick Auctions Books & Works on Paper January 28, 2020

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Byblia in vulgar ultimamente impressa, illustrated, folio, Lazaro de Soardi & Bernardino Benali, Venice,1517. £8,000 to £12,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Milio (Agostino). Nuovo dialogo delle devozioni del sacro monte della Verna, FIRST and ONLY EDITION, illustrated, 4to, Stamperia Ducale, Florence, 1568. £800 to £1,200.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Joyce (James). Ulysses, First English edition, NUMBER 23 OF 2000 COPIES, , 4to, Egoist Press, Paris, 1922. £800 to £1,200.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Dumas (Marlene). Doornrosie, lithograph printed in colours, signed, 370 x 440 mm, 1989. £800 to £1,200.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Japanese Culture.- Kimbei (Kusakabe). Two albums of hand tinted albumen prints, each with 50 photos, each photo c.140 x 95mm, [late 19th century]. £800 to £1,200.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Miró (Joan) ARR. Personnages sur Fond Noir, NUMBER 38 OF 75 COPIES, lithograph, signed and dated, 305 x 445mm, 1948. £1,000 to £1,500.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Ray (Man). Autoportrait, photolithograph, initialled and inscribed by artist, ONE of 100 COPIES, 200 x 160mm, 1972. £800 to £1,200.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Wou-Ki (Zao). L'tang / The Pond, etching aquatint, number 2 of 3 only, signed by artist, 260 x 230 mm, Paris, Editions Galanis, 1972. £800 to £1,200.

<center>Chiswick Auctions Autographs & Memorabilia January 28, 2020

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: De Amicis (Edmondo). Postcards signed by Italian author and journalist Edmondo De Amicis, February 1897- August 1907. £2,000 to £3,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Live Aid.- Live Aid 1985 souvenir programme, signed by Bob Geldof, Cliff Richard, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Freddie Mercury, and others, 1985-1991. £3,000 to £4,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. Black and white, landscape photograph ft. all the Heads of Government of the British Commonwealth who attended the 1944 Prime Ministers' Conference in London, signed by all.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Walt Disney Production.- Dopey, original animation cel from Snow White approx. 180 x 180mm., Walt Disney Enterprises, 1937. £1,500 to £2,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Liszt (Franz). Carte-de-visite photograph by J.Ganz of Brussels of Franz Liszt, signed, 10 x 6.4cm, c. 1880. £1,000 to £1,500.

Chiswick Auctions, Jan. 28: Fermi (Enrico). Autograph letter signed to Professor Tullio Levi Civita, 8vo, Florence, 9 May 1925; w/an autograph note from Professor Civita, 7 March 1934 (2). £1,800 to £2,200.
One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions: Rare Autographs, Sports, Books and Photography. January 23, 2020

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Abraham Lincoln Endorsement Signed, March 16, 1865. Framed with a lithograph of Lincoln by Dwight C. Sturges.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Thomas Edison Stunning Signed Portrait.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Franz Liszt Signed Photo.

One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions: Rare Autographs, Sports, Books and Photography. January 23, 2020

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Subscription for Portraits of the Presidents Signed by J. Q. Adams, Polk, Jackson, Buchanan, and Writers Dickens, Bryant and More!

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Vinson Supreme Court Signed Presentation Photo.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio Collection of Three Financial Items.

One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions: Rare Autographs, Sports, Books and Photography. January 23, 2020

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Rare Sigmund Freud ALS Related to Sexual Issues.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: New York Yankees team signed baseball c.1937 including Gehrig, DiMaggio, Dickey, Gomez and others.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Salvador Dali Original Drawing in Dali by David Larkin.

One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions: Rare Autographs, Sports, Books and Photography. January 23, 2020

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Charles Wilson Peale, Association Miniature of Dr. Ebenezer Crosby after Charles Willson Peale. Gouache on ivory miniature attributed to Peale.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: William McKinley Signed Oversize Photograph Incredible 20"x24".

One of a Kind Collectibles, Jan. 23: Margaret Mitchell Signed Gone With The Wind -- First Edition.
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 22nd January 2020

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Astronomical manuscript.- Kalendarium cum Tabulis Astronomicis; and other astronomical texts, [?Northern Italy (possibly Verona or Bologna), c.1470]. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Melville (Herman). Moby-Dick; or The Whale, first American edition, New York, 1851. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Malta.- Binding.- Sovereign Military Order of Malta.- Gli Statuti della Sacra Religione di S. Gio: Gierosolomitano… Rome, Giacomo Tornieri and Giacomo Ruffinello, 1589. £10,000 to £15,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 22nd January 2020

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Britain.- Jansson (Jan). Novus atlas, sive theatrum orbis terrarum, vol.4 only [Britain and Ireland], 56 double-page engraved maps, Amsterdam, 1659. £7,000 to £10,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, second (first published) edition, 1866; and 2 others from the series. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de). Novelas Exemplares, rare at auction, Milan, Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1615. £4,000 to £6,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 22nd January 2020

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Tolkien (J.R.R.). Printed programme for the New College School, Oxford, production of The Hobbit, signed by Tolkien, 1967. £4,500 to £5,500.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Thucydides. The hystory, writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, first edition in English, 1550. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Wesley (John). Autograph Letter signed "My Dear Sister [?Mary Stokes], exhorting her to write more often and dealing with her problems, 1773. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 22: Leaf from an illuminated book of hours with the Four Evangelists, illuminated by the workshop, or a close follower of the Maître de l'Échevinage. Northern France (possibly Rouen), c.1480. £2,000 to £3,000.
Bonhams: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Measure for Measure (extracted from the First Folio). London, 1623. Sold for $52,575.

Bonhams: HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Fanshawe, A Tale. Boston, 1828. FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Sold for $47,575.

Bonhams: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston, 1854. FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Sold for $12,575.

Bonhams: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London, 1685. THE FOURTH FOLIO, Brewster/Bentley issue. Sold for $43,825.

Bonhams: STEIG, WILLIAM. Original maquette and 58 finished drawings for The Agony in the Kindergarten, one of Steig's most important books. Sold for $12,575.

Bonhams: KING, STEPHEN. Carrie. New York, 1974. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Sold for $1,912.50.

<center>Bonhams Consignments invited (2020)

Bonhams: APPLE MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE. 1983. The earliest known Macintosh with "Twiggy" drive, one of only two known working machines. Sold for $150,075.

Bonhams: LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London, 1843. FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE, MOST IMPORTANT PAPER IN EARLY DIGITAL COMPUTING. Sold for $15,075.

Bonhams: APPLE-1 COMPUTER. Signed by Steve Wozniak, used in development of Apple II. Sold for $175,075.

Bonhams: DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection. London, 1859. FIRST EDITION. Sold for $131,325.

Bonhams: BOOLE, GEORGE. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. London, 1854. Sold for $12,575.

Bonhams: SHANNON, CLAUDE and WARREN WEAVER. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana, 1949. Sold for $27,575.