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Twenty-two Auctions Archived, 37 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Saturday April 2nd 22 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub database; 8 denominated in euros, 1 in British pounds, and 13 in US dollars.  Turnover was $7,478,330 as 8,441 lots were offered and 7,108 sold for an exceptional 84% success rate.

2 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters on March 27th: $2,076,484 
Arader Galleries. Asian Maps on March 16th: $1,358,725 

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

Ferraton. Books, Prints on March 19th: 135.40% 
Dorotheum . Prints Before 1900 on March 30th: 129.57% 
Purcell Auctioneers. The Sale of the Library of the Late Mr Gill Ruttledge on March 30th: 128.97% 
Vermot de Pas. Collection of an Amateur : Comic Strips and Original Boards, 3D, Japanese Animation on March 26th: 101.86% 
Arader Galleries. Asian Maps on March 16th: 101.40% 
Ader. Modern Prints on March 29th: 101.13% 


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

Arader Galleries. Asian Maps on March 16th: 100.00% 
National Book Auctions. Judaica, Magazines, Americana, etc on March 20th: 100.00% 
Aspire Auctions. Fine Art - Prints - Internet Bidstart 2/12 on February 20th: 100.00% 
Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 3/20 on March 27th: 99.74% 
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 3/17 on March 24th: 99.46% 
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 3/24 on March 31st: 98.49% 
Purcell Auctioneers. The Sale of the Library of the Late Mr Gill Ruttledge on March 30th: 96.71% 
Addison and Sarova. Rare Books on March 19th: 95.05% 
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters on March 27th: 94.38% 
Grogan and Company. The March Auction - Books and Prints on March 20th: 91.67% 
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Rare, Out of Print and Used Books on March 11th: 91.11% 
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on March 29th: 90.24% 
Dorotheum . Prints Before 1900 on March 30th: 84.93% 
Ferraton. Books, Prints on March 19th: 83.08% 


22 total sales reported this week: 

Purcell Auctioneers. The Sale of the Library of the Late Mr Gill Ruttledge on March 30th: 96.71% 
Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript African Americana on March 31st: 68.61% 
Bloomsbury Auctions. Modern and Contemporary Editions on March 31st: 63.73% 
Ader. Modern Prints on March 29th: 78.15% 
Dorotheum . Prints Before 1900 on March 30th: 84.93% 
Dorotheum . Globes on March 31st: 55.00% 
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 3/24 on March 31st: 98.49% 
Vermot de Pas. Collection of an Amateur : Comic Strips and Original Boards, 3D, Japanese Animation on March 26th: 73.90% 
National Book Auctions. Judaica, Magazines, Americana, etc on March 20th: 100.00% 
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Rare, Out of Print and Used Books on March 11th: 91.11% 
Auctionata. Modern and Contemporary Art on March 29th: 40.30% 
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on March 29th: 90.24% 
Arader Galleries. Asian Maps on March 16th: 100.00% 
Grogan and Company. The March Auction - Books and Prints on March 20th: 91.67% 
Binoche et Giquello. Avant-Guard of the 20th Century: - FIRST EDITIONS - PHOTOGRAPHS - MAGAZINES - GRAPHIC WORKS - MANUS on March 25th: 47.16% 
Addison and Sarova. Rare Books on March 19th: 95.05% 
Ferraton. Books, Prints on March 19th: 83.08% 
Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 3/20 on March 27th: 99.74% 
Aspire Auctions. Fine Art - Prints - Internet Bidstart 2/12 on February 20th: 100.00% 
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters on March 27th: 94.38% 
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 3/17 on March 24th: 99.46% 
Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics on February 17th: 75.75%

 

The Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Arader Galleries The Birds of Asia. on March 16th Actual price: USD $244,000.
  2. Arader Galleries Kun-yü Ch'üan-t'u on March 16th Actual price: USD $170,800.
  3. Heritage Auctions The Public Enemy (Warner Brothers, 1931). One Sheet (27" X 41") Style A. on March 27th Actual price: USD $167,300.
  4. Arader Galleries Lesser Adjutant on March 16th Actual price: USD $134,200.
  5. Arader Galleries Black-Necked Stork on March 16th Actual price: USD $134,200.
  6. Binoche et Giquello DESSIN ORIGINAL SIGNÉ. on March 25th Actual price: USD $102,413.
  7. Swann Galleries A Night-Club Map of Harlem. on March 31st Actual price: USD $100,000.
  8. Auctionata 'Details… Botticelli' on March 29th Actual price: USD $93,750.
  9. Heritage Auctions Halloween by Robert Gleason (Compass International, 1978). Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas (27" X 39.75"). on March 27th Actual price: USD $83,650.
  10. Vermot de Pas The Three Robbers on March 26th Actual price: USD $77,827.
  11. Binoche et Giquello GALA. BRETON André HUGO Valentine. on March 25th Actual price: USD $49,784.
  12. Arader Galleries Russischer Atlas welcher in einer General-Charte und neunzehen Special-Charten das gesamte Russische Reich und dessen angräntzende Länder...vorstellig macht on March 16th Actual price: USD $48,800.
  13. Swann Galleries Bannaker's (sic) Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina Almanack and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1796. on March 31st Actual price: USD $47,500.
  14. Arader Galleries Indian Egret on March 16th Actual price: USD $45,750.
  15. Heritage Auctions Gilda (Columbia, 1946). One Sheet (27" X 41") Style B. on March 27th Actual price: USD $45,410.
  16. Swann Galleries Autograph Letter Signed to one of the sons of Alphonso Janes of Providence, RI. on March 31st Actual price: USD $45,000.
  17. Arader Galleries Histoire de la navigation de Iean Hvgves de Linschot Hollandois: aux Indes Orientales...Troixiesme edition augmentee; [Part II:]  Le grand routier de Mer... [Part III:] Description de l'Amerique & des parties d'icelle, comme de la Nouvelle France... on March 16th Actual price: USD $42,700.
  18. Addison and Sarova Moriae Encomium. on March 19th Actual price: USD $40,000.
  19. Arader Galleries A Himalayan Monal (Impeyen Pheasant) on March 16th Actual price: USD $36,600.
  20. Arader Galleries Figures on the Banks of the River Hoogly, Tollygunge, Calcutta on March 16th Actual price: USD $36,600.
  21. Heritage Auctions It's a Wonderful Life (RKO, 1948). Italian 4 Foglio (55" X 57") Averardo Ciriello Artwork. on March 27th Actual price: USD $35,850.
  22. Heritage Auctions The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal, 1935). Uncut Pressbook (18 Pages, 13" X 26"). on March 27th Actual price: USD $33,460.
  23. Auctionata 'Still Life with Windmill' on March 29th Actual price: USD $32,500.
  24. Arader Galleries Onzieme volume de la Geographie Blaviane, contenant l'Asie qui est la IV. on March 16th Actual price: USD $30,500.
  25. Auctionata 'Grapes (Special edition)' on March 29th Actual price: USD $30,000.

 

For the week ahead 37 sales are scheduled: 

Mon. Apr. 4th 
Freemans. Philadelphia. Books, Maps and Manuscripts, including Photographs. 521 lots 
Artcurial. Paris. Prints and Illustrated Books. 165 lots 
Neret Minet and Tessier. Paris. Comic Strips. 410 lots 
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 136 lots 
Audap and Mirabaud. PARIS. Historical Souvenirs - Manuscripts, Photographs, Prints. 76 lots 

Tue. Apr. 5th 
Sothebys. Paris. Collection Boutet de Monvel. 23 lots 
Christies. New York. EX LIBRIS JEAN R. PERRETTE: IMPORTANT TRAVEL, EXPLORATION & CARTOGRAPHY - Day 2. 518 lots 
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Weapons, Hunting, Militaria, Historical Memories. 46 lots 
Heritage Auctions. New York. Manuscripts. 272 lots 
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Berlin. Autographs - Day 1. 632 lots 
Rossini. Paris. Prints. 15 lots 
Morton Casa de Subastas. México DF CP 11000. Antiquarian Books and Documents. 323 lots 

Wed. Apr. 6th 
Christies. New York. Photographs. 200 lots 
Heritage Auctions. New York. Books. 1124 lots 
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Printed Books, Maps and Prints. 670 lots 
Grays Auctioneers. Cleveland, . Fine Art - Prints. 36 lots 
Kedem Auction. Jerusalem . Passover Haggadot - Online Auction. 362 lots 
JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung. Berlin. Autographs - Day 2. 240 lots 

Thu. Apr. 7th 
Ader. PARIS. Antiquarian and Modern Books. 293 lots 
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Rare Americana with the Jonathan Bulkley Collection of Advertising Signs & Broadsides. 573 lots 
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Prints, Asian Art, Photography. 324 lots 
Charlton Hall. West Columbia, SC. International Sale. 117 lots 
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 3/31. 245 lots 
Gonnelli Casa DAste. Firenze. Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Musical works. 922 lots 
Kestenbaum and Company. New York. Fine Judaica. 244 lots 

Fri. Apr. 8th 
ALDE. Paris. Original Editions, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 296 lots 
Eldreds. East Dennis,. Autographs in Americana, and Maritime - Books and Prints. 49 lots 
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Chicago. Palm Beach Spring Auction - Prints. 8 lots 
Auctionata. Berlin. German Post-War Art: Prints. 133 lots 
Auctionata. Berlin. Art of the 20th Century - Prints. 153 lots 

Sat. Apr. 9th 
Aspire Auctions. Cleveland. Fine Art - Prints - Internet Bidstart 4/1. 8 lots 
Michaans Auctions. Alameda, CA . April Estate Auction. 36 lots 
Potter and Potter Auctions. Chicago. Houdiniana. 602 lots 

Sun. Apr. 10th 
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics - Internet bidstart 4/3. 
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 4/3. 
Artcurial. Paris. Aeronautics. 32 lots 
OSENAT. FONTAINEBLEAU. Empire at Fontainebleau. 

Bruce McKinney

 

RBH and AE

 

  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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