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For the week ended Saturday January 3rd nine sales were archived to the AED; 2 in euros, 1 in British pounds and 6 in US dollars.  7,877 lots were offered and 5,799 sold for a 74% success rate.  Turnover was $1,876,631.

 

1 auction saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars:

Bubb Kuyper. Books, etc. on November 29th: $1,153,464



No auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered. 



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

Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Posters - internet bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 92.96%
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 12/29 on January 2nd: 87.35%
Rupert Toovey and Co. Prints on December 31st: 87.18%
Bruun Rasmussen. Modern and Contemporary Prints on December 30th: 80.00%

For the week ahead 8 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jan. 6th
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Old Master Prints. 10 lots

Tue. Jan. 7th
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern and Contemporary Prints. 64 lots

Thu. Jan. 9th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 1/2. 252 lots

Fri. Jan. 10th
Dirk Soulis Auctions. Lee's Summit . The Layne Christensen Corporate Collection of American Art. 13 lots

Sat. Jan. 11th
Hauff and Auvermann. Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Rare Books, Photography and Art. 594 lots
Clars Auction Gallery. Oakland. Prints and Photographs. 303 lots

Sun. Jan. 12th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics - Internet bidstart 1/5.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters - Internet Bidstart 1/5.

The holidays are winding down and the spring auction season beginning to shape up.

 

Bruce McKInney

AE

 

  • 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.