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Rare Book Hub: 26 Auctions Archived, another 28 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Friday, 3 January 2020, 26 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; 14 denominated in euros and 12 in US dollars.  Six thousand eight hundred forty lots were offered and 5,669 sold for an 83% success rate.  Turnover was above $3.0 million.  We have descended briefly into the doldrums but recovery will be quick.  There are best times to sell but no longer any quiet periods.

 

For the week ahead 28 sales are scheduled.

 

1 auction saw total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Bonhams. Prints and Multiples on December 18th: $1,216,086



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

Bonhams. Prints and Multiples on December 18th: 132.29% 
Dirk Soulis Auctions. Monstrous Two-Ring Antique Auction on December 27th: 112.68% 
Zwiggelaar Auctions. Books and Prints - Session 2 on December 3rd: 103.32% 
Zwiggelaar Auctions. Books and Prints - Session 3 on December 4th: 101.26% 


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

Dirk Soulis Auctions. Monstrous Two-Ring Antique Auction on December 27th: 100.00% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 12/1 on December 29th: 100.00% 
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 12/17 on December 24th: 100.00% 
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 12/24 on December 31st: 100.00% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 99.68% 
Heritage Auctions. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 10/1 on December 31st: 99.23% 
Heritage Auctions. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 12/17 on December 24th: 98.46% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 97.84% 
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 12/13 on December 24th: 96.00% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 12/15 on December 22nd: 95.99% 
Alaska Auction. Prints, Photos, Books, Sports Cards on December 18th: 89.66% 
Alaska Auction. Prints, Books, Sports cards on December 19th: 89.29% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 21st: 88.50% 
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 12/13 on December 23rd: 88.06% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 28th: 87.50% 

Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 12/20 on December 27th: 86.47% 

 

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Bonhams The Loyal Address on December 18th Actual price: USD $157,066.
  2. Bonhams The State of the War -or- the Monkey-Race in Danger on December 18th Actual price: USD $157,066.
  3. Bonhams Maniac Raving's-or-Little Boney in a Strong Fit on December 18th Actual price: USD $123,999.
  4. Bonhams Girl with Balloon on December 18th Actual price: USD $113,544.
  5. Profiles in History Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta original artwork for The Mighty Thor #139 complete 16-page story. on December 12th Actual price: USD $86,250.
  6. Profiles in History Steve Ditko original artwork for The Amazing Spider-Man #37 Page 8. on December 12th Actual price: USD $86,250.
  7. Profiles in History John Byrne original artwork for Fantastic Four #256 complete 22-page story 'The Annihilation Gambit' on December 12th Actual price: USD $86,250.
  8. Dorotheum Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel. Bände 1,4,5 und 6 von 6. 4 Bde. on December 18th Actual price: USD $80,446.
  9. Profiles in History Robert Crumb original artwork for American Splendor #4 complete 7-page story 'The Young Crumb Story' on December 12th Actual price: USD $70,400.
  10. Profiles in History Barry Windsor-Smith original monumental painting 'Artemis & Apollo'. on December 12th Actual price: USD $69,000.
  11. Profiles in History Jack Kirby and John Verpoorten artwork for The Eternals #2 complete 17-page story 'The Celestials". on December 12th Actual price: USD $66,125.
  12. Profiles in History Harvey Kurtzman original artwork for Frontline Combat #3 complete 6-page story 'Prisoner of War!' on December 12th Actual price: USD $63,250.
  13. Profiles in History Wally Wood original artwork for Two Fisted Tales #35 complete 7-page story 'New Orleans'. on December 12th Actual price: USD $48,875.
  14. Pandolfini Practica musice Franchini Gafori Laudensis (Impressa Mediolani opera & impensa Ioannis Petri de Lomatio per Guillermum Signerre, 1496 die vltimo Septembris). on December 16th Actual price: USD $41,610.
  15. Zwiggelaar Auctions [Fine arts: 20th century] [Wiener Werkstätte] Wallpaper sample book Dagobert Peche (1887-1923) on December 3rd Actual price: USD $36,464.
  16. Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen La divine comédie. on December 14th Actual price: USD $34,417.
  17. Profiles in History Steve Ditko original artwork for The Amazing Spider-Man #6 Page 21. on December 12th Actual price: USD $31,625.
  18. Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen Sammlung von 19 mont. Photographien. on December 14th Actual price: USD $30,287.
  19. Profiles in History Bernie Wrightson original cover painting for A Look Back. on December 12th Actual price: USD $28,750.
  20. Profiles in History Michael Kaluta monumental original painting 'The Shadow Knows'. on December 12th Actual price: USD $28,750.
  21. Profiles in History Steve Ditko original artwork for The Amazing Spider-Man #32 Page 3. on December 12th Actual price: USD $28,750.
  22. Profiles in History Steve Ditko original artwork for The Amazing Spider-Man #27 Page 18. on December 12th Actual price: USD $28,750.
  23. Profiles in History Steve Ditko original artwork for The Amazing Spider-Man #10 Page 5. on December 12th Actual price: USD $28,750.
  24. Profiles in History John Buscema and George Klein original title splash artwork for Avengers #58 Page 1. on December 12th Actual price: USD $28,750.
  25. Bonhams John Lennon: A large self-portrait with Yoko Ono, on December 17th Actual price: USD $25,979.


26 total sales reported this week:

Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen. Books, Autographs, Photographs, Prints on December 14th: 61.59%
Dirk Soulis Auctions. Monstrous Two-Ring Antique Auction on December 27th: 100.00%
Vermot de Pas. Sporlympic V : 100% Olympism on December 21st: 57.87%
Alaska Auction. Prints, Books, Sports cards on December 19th: 89.29%
Alaska Auction. Prints, Photos, Books, Sports Cards on December 18th: 89.66%
Zwiggelaar Auctions. Books and Prints - Session 3 on December 4th: 78.65%
Zwiggelaar Auctions. Books and Prints - Session 2 on December 3rd: 75.44%
Zwiggelaar Auctions. Books and Prints - Session 1 on December 2nd: 74.96%
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 12/24 on December 31st: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 10/1 on December 31st: 99.23%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 28th: 87.50%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 12/1 on December 29th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 97.84%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 12/22 on December 29th: 99.68%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 12/20 on December 27th: 86.47%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 12/20 on December 26th: 40.00%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 12/13 on December 24th: 96.00%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 12/13 on December 23rd: 88.06%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 12/13 on December 22nd: 68.52%
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 12/17 on December 24th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 12/17 on December 24th: 98.46%
Bonhams. Entertainment Memorabilia on December 17th: 56.80%
Bonhams. Prints and Multiples on December 18th: 70.61%
Bonhams. Holiday Prints and Multiples on December 16th: 53.02%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 12/15 on December 22nd: 95.99%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 21st: 88.50%


For the week ahead 28 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jan. 6th
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 68 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics, Animation and Art Weekly, session 2 Bidstart 12/29. 336 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 12/27. 53 lots

Tue. Jan. 7th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday World Currency Auction - bidstart 12/31. 176 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday US Currency Weekly - online bidstart 12/31. 578 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 12/27. 29 lots

Wed. Jan. 8th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando - session 1. 768 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction, featuring Animation - online bidstart 12/13. 966 lots
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. Sports cards, Prints, Books. 68 lots
Trafford Books. Manchester. Books. 194 lots
Hindman Auctions. West Palm Beach, Florida . Palm Beach Collections. 28 lots
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates. Paris. Posters (online sale). 319 lots

Thu. Jan. 9th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN World Paper Money - Session 1. 415 lots
Forum Auctions. London. Books and Works on Paper - Online. 206 lots
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Art & Illustration - Occult & Hermeticism. 398 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando - session 2 - 6pm. 669 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. The Edgar Rice Burroughs Collection from the Estate of D. Peter Ogden Online. 256 lots
Alaska Auction. Anchorage. Sports Cards, etc.. 74 lots

Fri. Jan. 10th
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers. Hudson. 20th Century Fine Art Online. 59 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando - session 3 - 1pm. 295 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando - session 4 - 6pm. 253 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. FUN Currency Signature Auction - Orlando - session 5 - 8:30pm. 386 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 1/3. 145 lots

Sat. Jan. 11th
Michaans Auctions. Alameda, CA . January Gallery Auction. 38 lots
North American Auction Company. Bozeman. New Year's Collectors Sale. 73 lots
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper.

Sun. Jan. 12th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Sports Collectibles Weekly - Online bidstart 12/29. 128 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 1/3. 47 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
  • 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.