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Auction Update Review

test on 11/26


1 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars:

Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters on November 17th: $1,847,777

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

Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver. Books on November 16th: 118.50%


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

Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 11/10 on November 17th: 99.82%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters on November 17th: 96.75%
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 11/7 on November 14th: 88.30%


For the week ahead 6 sales are scheduled:

Thu. Nov. 28th
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Norwich. Books - Day 1. 1140 lots
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Prints. 876 lots
Pierre Berge and Associes. Paris. FIRE & FLAMES - LIBRARY DOMINIQUE DE VILLEPIN - I. THIEVES OF FIRE. 241 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. Books, Manuscripts, Works on Paper. 372 lots
AntiquarianAuctions.com. Laguna Beach. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 11/21. 382 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 11/21. 302 lots
Neret Minet and Tessier. Paris. The 20th Century in Posters. 539 lots

Fri. Nov. 29th
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Norwich. Books - Day 2. 184 lots
Pierre Berge and Associes. Paris. FIRE & FLAMES - LIBRARY DOMINIQUE DE VILLEPIN - II. HOLDERS OF FLAMES. 301 lots

Sat. Nov. 30th
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. Antique Maps - Fixed Prices. 274 lots
Ader. PARIS. Photobooks - the Library of Jean-Pierre and Claudine Sudre. 316 lots

Sun. Dec. 1st
PIASA. Paris. Tin Tin. 188 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics - Internet bidstart 11/24. 649 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Posters - internet bidstart 11/24. 600 lots

Mon. Dec. 2nd
Autographes Encheres. Meinier. Stars from Hollywood - internet bidstart Nov 18. 172 lots

Tue. Dec. 3rd
Christies. London - King Street. Old Master Prints. 103 lots
Sothebys. Paris. Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. 58 lots

  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.