Auction Update Review

In the heat of the season

For the week ended Saturday November 8th 34 auctions were archived to the AED; 9 in euros, 7 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican Pesos, and 17 in US dollars.  Sales totaled $24,857,865 as 7,483 lots were offered and 5,613 sold for a 75% success rate.

7 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Sothebys. Prints on October 31st: $8,682,002
Sothebys. Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History on November 4th: $4,485,202
Sothebys. Library of Carlo de Poortere on November 6th: $2,905,542
Christies. COLLECTION LITTÉRAIRE :VERLAINE, RIMBAUD, MALLARMÉ - LA COLLECTION LITTÉRAIRE D'ÉDOUARD-HENRI FISCHE on November 4th: $2,525,278
Christies. Sporting Books on November 5th: $1,237,264
Swann Galleries. The Latin Americana Library of Dr. W. Michael Mathes on November 6th: $1,235,647
Freemans. Modern and Contemporary Works of Art - Prints on November 2nd: $1,056,212

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

Binoche et Giquello. ALBERT ROBIDA COLLECTION MICHEL FRANÇOIS LIVRES - AQUARELLES ET DESSINS ORIGINAUX on October 29th: 137.43%
Tooveys. Postcards on November 4th: 118.58%
Tooveys. Photographs and Ephemera on November 4th: 108.72%
Pierre Berge and Associes. Old Books and Autographs on November 5th: 107.89%
Christies. Sporting Books on November 5th: 101.20%
Sothebys. Library of Carlo de Poortere on November 6th: 100.38%


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

Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 10/26 on November 2nd: 100.00%
Tooveys. Postcards on November 4th: 98.53%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 10/26 on November 2nd: 95.33%
Tooveys. Photographs and Ephemera on November 4th: 92.45%
Freemans. Modern and Contemporary Works of Art - Prints on November 2nd: 91.36%
Skinner. Globes, Manuscripts on November 1st: 90.91%
Bruun Rasmussen. Modern and Contemporary Prints on November 4th: 89.83%
Aspire Auctions. Prints - Internet bidstart 10/22 on November 1st: 86.11%
Sothebys. Library of Carlo de Poortere on November 6th: 85.08%
Bonhams. The Sporting Sale on November 5th: 84.06%
Swann Galleries. The Latin Americana Library of Dr. W. Michael Mathes on November 6th: 83.89%
Winter Associates. Books, Prints on November 3rd: 83.33%
Tooveys. Prints on November 5th: 82.61%
Binoche et Giquello. ALBERT ROBIDA COLLECTION MICHEL FRANÇOIS LIVRES - AQUARELLES ET DESSINS ORIGINAUX on October 29th: 80.85%


34 total sales reported this week:

Pierre Berge and Associes. Old Books and Autographs on November 5th: 79.37%
Archives International Auctions. Wall Street Sale, Part 2 on November 4th: 62.02%
Bloomsbury Auctions. Bibliophile on November 6th: 77.07%
PBA Galleries. Illustrated and Children's Books - Fine Bindings - Prints on November 6th: 62.96%
Tooveys. Prints on November 5th: 82.61%
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Fine Books and Manuscripts on November 5th: 71.72%
Swann Galleries. The Latin Americana Library of Dr. W. Michael Mathes on November 6th: 83.89%
Sothebys. Library of Carlo de Poortere on November 6th: 85.08%
Eldreds. Fine and Decorative Arts - Prints on November 5th: 55.26%
Grays Auctioneers. Prints on June 25th: 67.74%
Grays Auctioneers. Fine Art, Antiques & Decorative Art on October 8th: 46.15%
Christies. Sporting Books on November 5th: 75.77%
Bruun Rasmussen. Modern and Contemporary Prints on November 4th: 89.83%
Bonhams. The Sporting Sale on November 5th: 84.06%
Tooveys. Photographs and Ephemera on November 4th: 92.45%
Tooveys. Postcards on November 4th: 98.53%
Kedem Auction. Jewish and Israeli History and Culture, Israeli and International Art on October 29th: 68.03%
Sothebys. Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History on November 4th: 64.10%
Christies. COLLECTION LITTÉRAIRE :VERLAINE, RIMBAUD, MALLARMÉ - LA COLLECTION LITTÉRAIRE D'ÉDOUARD-HENRI FISCHE on November 4th: 71.76%
Bruun Rasmussen. Old Master Prints on November 3rd: 75.00%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 10/26 on November 2nd: 95.33%
Michaans Auctions. November Estate Auction - Books on November 2nd: 65.43%
Winter Associates. Books, Prints on November 3rd: 83.33%
Artcurial. Automobilia on November 2nd: 77.36%
Aspire Auctions. Prints - Internet bidstart 10/22 on November 1st: 86.11%
Freemans. Modern and Contemporary Works of Art - Prints on November 2nd: 91.36%
Binoche et Giquello. Modern Books on October 29th: 54.06%
Binoche et Giquello. ALBERT ROBIDA COLLECTION MICHEL FRANÇOIS LIVRES - AQUARELLES ET DESSINS ORIGINAUX on October 29th: 80.85%
Binoche et Giquello. Photography on October 22nd: 51.93%
Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 10/26 on November 2nd: 100.00%
One Of Kind Collictibles. Rare Collectibles - Internet bidstart 10/19 on October 29th: 73.53%
Skinner. Globes, Manuscripts on November 1st: 90.91%
Morton Casa de Subastas. Books and Ancient Documents on October 30th: 43.75%
Sothebys. Prints on October 31st: 72.08%

For the week ahead 33 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Nov. 10th
Artcurial. Paris. Limited Editions. 82 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Old Master Prints. 5 lots

Tue. Nov. 11th
Bloomsbury Philobiblon. Rome. Rare Books. 587 lots
Minerva Auctions Roma. Roma. Modern and Contemporary Prints. 73 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern and Contemporary Prints. 53 lots

Wed. Nov. 12th
Bonhams. London. Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs. 174 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Rare Manuscript, Document & Autograph - Internet bidstart 10/24. 862 lots
Swann Galleries. New York. Contemporary Art - Prints. 332 lots
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Printed Books, Maps and Documents. 671 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Space Exploration. 382 lots

Thu. Nov. 13th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics. 2049 lots
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Fine Golf Books & Memorabilia - The Library of John Burns with Additions. 234 lots
Ader. PARIS. Judaica. 226 lots
Aguttes. Neuilly-sur-Seine . Books. 303 lots
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Historical Aviation, Maritime, and Transport Memorabilia. 93 lots
Bloomsbury Auctions. London. Important Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. 453 lots
Christies. Paris. MR. KASPAR FLEISCHMANN COLLECTION SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY O.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 11/6.
Kestenbaum and Company. New York. Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Works of Art. 322 lots

Fri. Nov. 14th
Sothebys. Paris. Photographs. 196 lots
Ader. PARIS. Photography Books.
Christies. Paris. Photographs.
Tajan. Paris. Photographs.
Artcurial. Paris. Photography.
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Historical Aviation, Maritime, and Transport Memorabilia - Day 2. 39 lots

Sat. Nov. 15th
Clars Auction Gallery. Oakland. Prints.
Dirk Soulis Auctions. Lee's Summit . 50 Year Collection of Railroadiana.
Binoche et Giquello. rue La Boetie, Paris. Extraordinary collection of the Prince's Palace of Monaco - Day 1.

Sun. Nov. 16th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics - Internet bidstart 11/9.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 11/9.
Skinner. Boston. Fine Books and Manuscripts.
Ader. PARIS. Photographs.
Binoche et Giquello. rue La Boetie, Paris. Extraordinary collection of the Prince's Palace of Monaco - Day 2.

If you are a collector and have a heart beat your heart is beating faster these days.  Material is moving into the rooms - generally with lower reserves and higher expectations.

 

Bruce McKinney

AE

  • 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.
    Forum Auctions
    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
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Catalogue 198 just published
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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.