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Rare Book Hub: 28 Auctions Archived, another 40 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Saturday 1st June, 28 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; 11 denominated euros, 1 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, 14 in US dollars and 1 in South African rands.  Turnover was $9,070,242 as 12,112 lots were offered and 9,261 sold for a 76% success rate.

 

3 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Ketterer Kunst DoerlingRare Books - Part 1 on May 27th: $1,517,771 
ArtcurialLimited Edition on May 28th: $1,259,794 
Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper on May 30th: $1,193,685 

4 auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered: 

AderOld and Modern Prints - Day 2 on May 24th: 152.15% 
AderOld and Modern Prints - Day 1 on May 23rd: 152.08% 
Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper on May 30th: 129.09% 
Ketterer Kunst DoerlingRare Books - Part 1 on May 27th: 122.72% 


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

National Book AuctionsEllison, Children's, NYS, Civil War, Sci-Fi on May 19th: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsWeekly World Currency Internet Auction - Online bidstart 5/21 on May 28th: 99.50% 
Heritage AuctionsThe Doug Murray Collection - Special Monthly Auction - Online Only - bidstart 5/1 on May 26th: 99.43% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Comics - bidstart 5/19 on May 26th: 98.89% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 4/28 on May 26th: 98.77% 
Leland Little AuctionsMemorial Day Sale - Prints, Books on May 27th: 98.72% 
Heritage AuctionsTuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 5/21 on May 28th: 98.27% 
Heritage AuctionsSunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 5/19 on May 26th: 96.70% 
Il PonteInterior Decorations - Books on May 17th: 96.10% 
Heritage AuctionsThe Leonard Glazer Collection of Civil War Dated Currency & Related Items US Currency Online Only - on May 30th: 92.56% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on May 25th: 91.76% 
Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper on May 30th: 87.06% 
Ketterer Kunst DoerlingRare Books - Part 1 on May 27th: 81.25% 
AderOld and Modern Prints - Day 1 on May 23rd: 80.35% 
AderOld and Modern Prints - Day 2 on May 24th: 80.31% 

 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Geographie opus novissima traductione. 2 Teile in 1 Band. on May 27th Actual price: USD $337,512.
  2. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Daphnis & Chloé. 2 Bände. on May 27th Actual price: USD $165,312.
  3. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Les liliacées. 8 Bände in 4. on May 27th Actual price: USD $123,984.
  4. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für alle und keinen. on May 27th Actual price: USD $112,963.
  5. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals. on May 27th Actual price: USD $82,656.
  6. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. on May 27th Actual price: USD $74,390.
  7. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Itinerarium, ofte Schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien. - Reys-gheschrift van de Navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten. on May 27th Actual price: USD $70,258.
  8. Forum Auctions Delle Guerre de Greci, et de Persi, on May 30th Actual price: USD $59,850.
  9. Artcurial Pyramid on May 28th Actual price: USD $58,240.
  10. Artcurial Etude pour une corrida on May 28th Actual price: USD $58,240.
  11. Moreshet Auctions Amulet on parchment from the holy hands of the Tzaddik, the Admor Rabbi Yeshayle Kristirer. Rare! on May 13th Actual price: USD $57,600.
  12. Forum Auctions A Plan of the Province of Upper Canada on May 30th Actual price: USD $53,550.
  13. Artcurial Poisson Vase- on May 28th Actual price: USD $50,960.
  14. Forum Auctions Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on May 30th Actual price: USD $44,100.
  15. Artcurial Pomme bouche on May 28th Actual price: USD $43,680.
  16. RR Auction Hollywood Autograph Collection on May 23rd Actual price: USD $42,660.
  17. Ketterer Kunst Doerling L’Odyssée. 2 Bände. on May 27th Actual price: USD $41,328.
  18. Ketterer Kunst Doerling [Histoire naturelle. Oiseaux. Planches enluminées. on May 27th Actual price: USD $41,328.
  19. Forum Auctions Palm Trees of the Amazon and their uses on May 30th Actual price: USD $40,950.
  20. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Historien und Bücher: Von alten Jüdischen Geschichten ... on May 27th Actual price: USD $38,573.
  21. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Nederlandsche vogelen; volgens hunne huishouding, aert, en eigenschappen. 5 Bände. on May 27th Actual price: USD $35,818.
  22. Artcurial Eau-forte XXII on May 28th Actual price: USD $34,944.
  23. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Bauhausbücher Schriftleitung: Walter Gropius und Laszlo Moholy- Nagy. Band 1-14 (komplett). on May 27th Actual price: USD $34,440.
  24. Artcurial Vase deux anses hautes on May 28th Actual price: USD $33,488.
  25. Artcurial Soup can on May 28th Actual price: USD $33,488.



28 total sales reported this week:

PBA Galleries. Fine Books and Manuscripts on May 30th: 69.93%
Forum Auctions. Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper on May 30th: 87.06%
Heritage Auctions. The Leonard Glazer Collection of Civil War Dated Currency & Related Items US Currency Online Only - on May 30th: 92.56%
Artcurial. Limited Edition on May 28th: 72.00%
ALDE. Original Bindings and Modern Illustrated Books on May 28th: 53.37%
Ketterer Kunst Doerling. Rare Books - Part 2 on May 27th: 60.41%
Ketterer Kunst Doerling. Rare Books - Part 1 on May 27th: 81.25%
Leland Little Auctions. Memorial Day Sale - Prints, Books on May 27th: 98.72%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on May 28th: 79.41%
Christian Hesse Auktionen. Fine Art Prints, Books, Autographs on May 25th: 66.00%
Stephan Welz & Co.. Online Fine Art and Book Sale - Bidstart 5/16 on May 23rd: 34.47%
Moreshet Auctions. Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Letters on May 13th: 50.50%
Heritage Auctions. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 5/21 on May 28th: 98.27%
Heritage Auctions. Weekly World Currency Internet Auction - Online bidstart 5/21 on May 28th: 99.50%
Vermot de Pas. History and Regions of France chez Vermot et Associés , Paris (France) on May 24th: 20.43%
Vermot de Pas. Library of a Gourmet Parisien - Chapter 2: Gastronomy and Oenology on May 23rd: 51.08%
Ader. Old and Modern Prints - Day 2 on May 24th: 80.31%
Ader. Old and Modern Prints - Day 1 on May 23rd: 80.35%
Potter and Potter Auctions. Vintage Posters on May 22nd: 67.54%
RR Auction. Hollywood, Featuring Robert Shelton's Old Tucson Collection - bidstart 5/17 on May 23rd: 53.49%
Morton Subastas. Graphic Works of the European and Latin American Masters - Online bidstart 4/22 on May 13th: 17.42%
National Book Auctions. Ellison, Children's, NYS, Civil War, Sci-Fi on May 19th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 4/28 on May 26th: 98.77%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 5/19 on May 26th: 98.89%
Il Ponte. Interior Decorations - Books on May 17th: 96.10%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on May 25th: 91.76%
Heritage Auctions. The Doug Murray Collection - Special Monthly Auction - Online Only - bidstart 5/1 on May 26th: 99.43%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 5/19 on May 26th: 96.70%

For the week ahead 40 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jun. 3rd
Dorotheum . Vienna. Autographs, Manuscripts, Documents. 315 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 59 lots

Tue. Jun. 4th
Swann Galleries. New York. Illustration Art. 205 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 5/28. 761 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Weekly World Currency Internet Auction - Online bidstart 5/28. 206 lots
Kedem Auction. Jerusalem . Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture. 363 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern and Contemporary Prints. 58 lots
William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals. Chadds Ford, PA . Eclectic Variety. 34 lots

Wed. Jun. 5th
Old World Auctions. Glen Allen. Maps and Atlases - Internet bidstart 5/29. 484 lots
Christies. London - King Street. Beyond the Horizon: The Mopelia Collection of Atlases and Travel Books. 203 lots
Sothebys. New York. Important Judaica. 21 lots
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . 19th-21st Century Photography. 366 lots
Winner's Auctions Ltd. Jerusalem. Seforim, Chabad, Eretz Yisrael and Zionism, Postcards and Photographs, Art, Letters from Rabbis and. 459 lots
Nye & Company Auctioneers. Bloomfield. Estate Treasures - Fine Art Prints, Books. 31 lots
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. Prints, Books. 75 lots
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Library of Monsieur L. and others - Illustrated books of the twentieth century - Regionalism - Old b. 387 lots

Thu. Jun. 6th
Swann Galleries. New York. Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books. 399 lots
AntiquarianAuctions.com. Cape Town. Books - Internet Bidstart 5/30. 479 lots
PIASA. Paris. Asian Art - Books and Prints. 89 lots
Forum Auctions. London. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper. 215 lots
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. Prints, Books. 45 lots
Waverly Auctions. Falls Church. Science-fiction and Fantasy. 286 lots
Brunk Auctions. Asheville, NC . Photography Online. 51 lots
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Library of Monsieur L. and others - Illustrated books of the twentieth century - Regionalism - Old b. 249 lots
Skinner. Boston. Gentleman's Sale - Prints. 11 lots

Fri. Jun. 7th
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers. Hudson. Joseph Beuys: Prints and Multiples. 100 lots
ALDE. Paris. Autograph Letters and Manuscripts. 469 lots

Sat. Jun. 8th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comic Art. 437 lots
Michaans Auctions. Alameda, CA . Gallery Auction - Books, Prints, Photographs. 56 lots
Rachel Davis Fine Arts. Cleveland. Prints. 343 lots
Arader Galleries. New York City. June Auction - Audubon Prints, etc.. 164 lots
Aspire Auctions. Cleveland. May Online - Prints, Books - Bidstart 5/31. 30 lots
North American Auction Company. Bozeman. Early American Indian and Western Auction. 87 lots
PosterConnection Inc.. Clayton. Posters. 390 lots
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers. Hudson. 20th Century Contemporary and Modern Art - Prints. 142 lots
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper. 179 lots

Sun. Jun. 9th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 6/2.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 6/2.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 5/12. 254 lots
National Book Auctions. Ithaca. Atlases, Americana, Signatures, Morley, Firsts, etc.. 110 lots

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • 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.
  • 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.