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Auction Update Review

Was there a vacation? It's difficult to remember.


It was a quiet week.  No reported sales reached a million dollars and only a single sale saw total proceeds exceed 100% of the total of the high estimates.  What's interesting is that the sales relentlessly continue.  Not so long ago there were long periods of quiet.  In this era an open date on the auction calander is an opportunity.

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

Bruun Rasmussen. Modern and Contemporary Prints on January 7th: 105.22%

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

Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 12/29 on January 5th: 99.81%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters - Internet Bidstart 12/29 on January 5th: 94.35%
Bruun Rasmussen. Modern and Contemporary Prints on January 7th: 93.75%

For the week ahead 11 sales are scheduled:

Tue. Jan. 14th
Paige Auction. Portland. Prints. 63 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern and Contemporary Prints. 63 lots

Wed. Jan. 15th
Lyon and Turnbull. Edinburgh. Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts. 408 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Rare Manuscript, Document & Autograph - bidstart 12/19. 1773 lots
Doyle New York. New York. The Yale R. Burge Collection: Prints and Books. 35 lots

Thu. Jan. 16th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 1/9. 283 lots
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Fine Americana - African-American History - Travel - Maps and Views. 559 lots

Sun. Jan. 19th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics - Internet bidstart 1/12.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters - Internet Bidstart 1/12.
Artcurial. Paris. Aeronautics. 100 lots
OSENAT. FONTAINEBLEAU. Archeology: Gantner Museum Collection - Antiquarian Books. 11 lots

This year the weekly auction updates will be sponsored and this first week the Arader Galleries are highlighting their sale of Audubon pirnts and other printed collectibles on January 25th.  Guernsey is conducting the sale at the Arader Gallery's 1016 Madison Avenue location. 

The Arader Galleries

1016 Madison Avenue

New York, New York

Telephone:  212.626-7825 

Direct link to the auction

 

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.