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2019: We are off to the races

For the week ended Saturday 5 January 6 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; one in Swedish krona, and 5 in US dollars.  The sell-through rate was as rare as a Gutenberg Bible:  95% while turnover was slim:  $627,597.30.  Even bibliophiles have to take some time away. 

 

Personally, I found the thin market attractive as I brought about 25 lots of mid-Hudson ephemera as well as a 20th century impressionist painting of Rondout. 

 

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


Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 12/23 on December 30th: 99.16% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles Auction - online bidstart 12/2 on December 30th: 98.33% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 12/23 on December 30th: 98.17% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 29th: 97.42% 
Heritage Auctions. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - Internet bidstart 12/25 on January 1st: 97.07% 


6 total sales reported this week: 

Heritage Auctions. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - Internet bidstart 12/25 on January 1st: 97.07% 
Stockholms Auktionsverk. Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts on December 7th: 68.72% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles Auction - online bidstart 12/2 on December 30th: 98.33% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 12/23 on December 30th: 98.17% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 12/23 on December 30th: 99.16% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 29th: 97.42% 
 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Stockholms Auktionsverk First edition of Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae 1627 on December 7th Actual price: USD $47,163.
  2. Stockholms Auktionsverk Första upplagan av Wrights berömda fågelverk 1828 on December 7th Actual price: USD $20,213.
  3. Stockholms Auktionsverk 18th century composite atlas with 54 maps on December 7th Actual price: USD $10,780.
  4. Stockholms Auktionsverk Printed by Zainer in Augsburg 1471 on December 7th Actual price: USD $9,433.
  5. Heritage Auctions Amazing Fantasy #15 (Marvel, 1962) CGC Apparent VG 4.0 Extensive (B-5) Off-white pages. on December 30th Actual price: USD $9,000.
  6. Stockholms Auktionsverk Plinius Secundus Historia naturalis 1473 on December 7th Actual price: USD $8,759.
  7. Heritage Auctions Fantastic Four #1 (Marvel, 1961) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Cream to off-white pages. on December 30th Actual price: USD $7,800.
  8. Stockholms Auktionsverk Sparrman's Museum Carlsonianum with 80 plates 1786 on December 7th Actual price: USD $7,411.
  9. Stockholms Auktionsverk Noël's translations of Confucius and more on December 7th Actual price: USD $6,199.
  10. Heritage Auctions Showcase #4 The Flash (DC, 1956) CGC GD- 1.8 Cream to off-white pages. on December 30th Actual price: USD $6,000.
  11. Stockholms Auktionsverk First ed. Kepler's Astronomiae pars optica... 1604 on December 7th Actual price: USD $5,390.
  12. Stockholms Auktionsverk Hyllningsplansch till Erik Dahlberg sent 1600-tal on December 7th Actual price: USD $5,121.
  13. Stockholms Auktionsverk Jordglob av Anders Åkerman diameter 30 cm on December 7th Actual price: USD $4,851.
  14. Heritage Auctions Frank Godwin Connie Sunday Comic Strip Original Art (Ledger Syndicate, c. 1935-40). on December 30th Actual price: USD $4,560.
  15. Stockholms Auktionsverk Bromelius tidiga flora från 1694 on December 7th Actual price: USD $4,043.
  16. Stockholms Auktionsverk Renieris tabulae Mediceae 1639 on December 7th Actual price: USD $4,043.
  17. Stockholms Auktionsverk Lochmaier's Sermones de sanctis perutiles 1490-91 on December 7th Actual price: USD $3,369.
  18. Heritage Auctions Bill Rechin and Richard Thompson Smithsonian Museum "Chalk Talk" Sketches Original Art Group of 10 (undated). on December 30th Actual price: USD $3,360.
  19. Stockholms Auktionsverk Darwin's On the Origin of Species 3rd ed. 1861 on December 7th Actual price: USD $3,234.
  20. Heritage Auctions 1989 Perez-Steele "Celebration" Complete Set (45) - Includes 40 Signed Cards! on December 30th Actual price: USD $3,000.
  21. Stockholms Auktionsverk Manuscript leaf 14th c. Saint-Jacques' bible on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,965.
  22. Stockholms Auktionsverk Dagbok från Vegaexpeditionen 1878 on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,965.
  23. Stockholms Auktionsverk Henri Matisse Verve 1958 on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,965.
  24. Stockholms Auktionsverk Russian school atlas 1790 part I on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,830.
  25. Stockholms Auktionsverk Northcote mezzotinta engraving A Tyger 1790 on December 7th Actual price: USD $2,695.



For the week ahead 15 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jan. 7th
Cowans Auctions. Cincinnati. Historic Photography: Timed Auction - Internet bidstart 12/20. 237 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 83 lots

Tue. Jan. 8th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 1/1. 204 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - Internet bidstart 1/1. 280 lots

Wed. Jan. 9th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando and Dallas. 2924 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando and Dallas. 1391 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. January Auction - Featuring Art and Animation - Online bidstart 12/14. 987 lots
Trafford Books. Manchester. Stamps & postal history, Photographs, Books, Postcards, and Ephemera.. 252 lots

Thu. Jan. 10th
Forum Auctions. London. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper.
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the Glenn Todd Collection of Arion Press. 433 lots

Sat. Jan. 12th
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper.
North American Auction Company. Bozeman. Old West and Firearms Sale: Prints, Books. 90 lots

Sun. Jan. 13th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles Auction - online bidstart 12/16/18. 235 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 1/6.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 1/6.

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE




  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.