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Rare Book Hub: 32 Auctions Archived, another 32 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Friday, 10 July 2020, 32 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; 1 in Swiss francs, 11 in euros, 1 in British pounds, and 19 in US dollars.  Turnover was $10,441,321 as 9,281 lots were offered and 7,315 sold for a solid 79% success rate.  The auctions continue to be strong. 

 

For the week ahead another 32 sales are posted.  Bon chance!

 

3 auctions saw total proceeds reach a million dollars: 

Ketterer Kunst DoerlingRare Books on July 6th: $1,956,860 
Kedem Auctions Ltd.Rare and Important Items on July 7th: $1,954,593 
RR AuctionFine Autograph and Artifact Auction - online bidstart 6/19 on July 7th: $1,405,220  


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

Binoche et GiquelloBOOKS - FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR HENRI POLAILLON - OLD BOOKS AND MILITARY COSTUMES on July 8th: 157.67% 
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & ValuersAntiquarian and Collectable Books Auction on July 9th: 138.00% 
Koller AuctionsPrints and Multiples on July 4th: 114.01% 
Ketterer Kunst DoerlingRare Books on July 6th: 106.64% 


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

Neal Auction CompanyOnline Only - Unreserved - Books, Prints on May 25th: 100.00% 
Heritage AuctionsUS Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 6/30 on July 7th: 99.84% 
Heritage AuctionsMovie Posters Weekly on July 5th: 99.26% 
Heritage AuctionsSports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 6/21 on July 5th: 99.02% 
Heritage AuctionsWorld Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 6/30 on July 7th: 98.67% 
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & ValuersAntiquarian and Collectable Books Auction on July 9th: 97.51% 
Heritage AuctionsComics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online on July 6th: 97.23% 
Binoche et GiquelloBOOKS - FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR HENRI POLAILLON - OLD BOOKS AND MILITARY COSTUMES on July 8th: 94.76% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on July 4th: 93.50% 
Alaska AuctionBooks, Prints on July 8th: 93.33% 
Alaska AuctionBooks, Prints on July 9th: 92.86% 
Kedem Auctions Ltd.Rare and Important Items on July 7th: 90.56% 
Swann GalleriesMaps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books on July 9th: 89.74% 
Koller AuctionsPrints and Multiples on July 4th: 89.11% 
Aste BolaffiAutomobilia - Internet Live on July 7th: 87.60% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 6/19 on June 30th: 82.35% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 6/19 on June 29th: 80.00% 


32 total sales reported this week: 

Holabird Kagin AmericanaSummer 2020 Extravaganza Sale: Part 2- Day 1 on July 10th: 68.14% 

Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & ValuersAntiquarian and Collectable Books Auction on July 9th: 97.51% 
Swann GalleriesMaps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books on July 9th: 89.74% 
PBA GalleriesFine Art - Photographs and Prints - Food and Drink - Illustrated Books on July 9th: 60.39% 
ALDETravel Books - Atlases - Maps on July 9th: 69.50% 
Alaska AuctionBooks, Prints on July 9th: 92.86% 
RR AuctionFine Autograph and Artifact Auction - online bidstart 6/19 on July 7th: 67.05% 
Nye & Company AuctioneersEstate Treasures - Fine Art Prints, Books on July 8th: 70.00% 
BonhamsFine Books and Manuscripts - Online - Bidstart 6/25 on July 8th: 60.99% 
Binoche et GiquelloBOOKS - FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR HENRI POLAILLON - OLD BOOKS AND MILITARY COSTUMES on July 8th: 94.76% 
Alaska AuctionBooks, Prints on July 8th: 93.33% 
Kedem Auctions Ltd.Rare and Important Items on July 7th: 90.56% 
Heritage AuctionsPhotographs Monthly Online Auction on July 8th: 73.91% 
AderAder's Auction on April 12th: 58.37% 
Neal Auction CompanyOnline Only - Unreserved - Books, Prints on May 25th: 100.00% 
Neal Auction CompanySummer Estates Auction on June 14th: 75.00% 
Aste BolaffiAutomobilia - Internet Live on July 7th: 87.60% 
Ketterer Kunst DoerlingRare Books on July 6th: 56.65% 
Heritage AuctionsWorld Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 6/30 on July 7th: 98.67% 
Heritage AuctionsUS Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 6/30 on July 7th: 99.84% 
Heritage AuctionsMovie Posters Weekly on July 5th: 99.26% 
Heritage AuctionsComics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online on July 6th: 97.23% 
Garth's Auctioneers and AppraisersThe American Colony and Obsolete Currency Collection of a Southern Gentleman - bidstart 6/22 on July 5th: 71.88% 
Koller AuctionsPrints and Multiples on July 4th: 89.11% 
Heritage AuctionsSports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 6/21 on July 5th: 99.02% 
Christian Hesse AuktionenSpring Auction - Books and Prints on July 4th: 68.94% 
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on July 4th: 93.50% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 6/26 on July 3rd: 79.33% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 6/19 on June 30th: 82.35% 
Catawiki B. V.Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 6/19 on June 29th: 80.00% 
Catawiki B. V.Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 6/19 on June 28th: 74.19% 
AderPhotographs on July 3rd: 47.02% 
 
 
Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Kedem Auctions Ltd. Case File of Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin, Upon His Arrival in Sadigura/ Travel Document Used by the Rebbe to Illegally Cross the Russian Border on July 7th Actual price: USD $344,400.
  2. Koller Auctions Dracula. 1981. on July 4th Actual price: USD $122,955.
  3. Kedem Auctions Ltd. Manuscript, Tefillah L'Moshe on Tehillim by the Yismach Moshe - Many Hitherto Unprinted Sections on July 7th Actual price: USD $110,700.
  4. Ketterer Kunst Doerling An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798. on July 6th Actual price: USD $88,800.
  5. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Civitates orbis terrarum - Urbium praecipuarum - 6 in 3 Bänden, 1612-1618. on July 6th Actual price: USD $76,313.
  6. Bonhams Macbeth: A Tragedy. Acted at the Dukes-Theatre. on July 8th Actual price: USD $75,075.
  7. Kedem Auctions Ltd. Babylonian Talmud on July 7th Actual price: USD $73,800.
  8. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Das Werk, Wien 1914. on July 6th Actual price: USD $72,150.
  9. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Liber chronicarum, 1493. on July 6th Actual price: USD $65,213.
  10. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Stundenbuch Troyes, um 1480. on July 6th Actual price: USD $58,275.
  11. Kedem Auctions Ltd. Manuscript of the Rama of Fano - Mahadura Kama of His Books Pelach HaRimon and Yayin HaRekach on July 7th Actual price: USD $56,580.
  12. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Bulla aurea, 1485. on July 6th Actual price: USD $55,500.
  13. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Das Kapital. Mit eigh. Widmung, 1872. on July 6th Actual price: USD $52,725.
  14. Koller Auctions Untitled III. 1983. on July 4th Actual price: USD $49,372.
  15. Kedem Auctions Ltd. Letter of Rabbinic Ordination Signed by the Noda BiYehuda, with the Signatures of the Dayanim in His Beit Din, Leading Prague Torah Scholars on July 7th Actual price: USD $49,200.
  16. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Fleurs du Printemps et de l´Este, um 1630. on July 6th Actual price: USD $48,563.
  17. Ketterer Kunst Doerling Biblia aethiopica ... Testamentum novum, 1548. on July 6th Actual price: USD $48,563.
  18. RR Auction Beatles Album on July 7th Actual price: USD $47,188.
  19. Koller Auctions Joseph Beuys 1980/83. on July 4th Actual price: USD $46,791.
  20. Kedem Auctions Ltd. Likutei Moharan Kama on July 7th Actual price: USD $46,740.
  21. Koller Auctions Color Numerals Series, Figure 1. 1969. on July 4th Actual price: USD $45,500.
  22. Swann Galleries Great Blue Heron. Plate CCXI. on July 9th Actual price: USD $45,000.
  23. RR Auction Eyvind Earle concept painting from Sleeping Beauty Concept painting on July 7th Actual price: USD $43,179.
  24. Kedem Auctions Ltd. Certificate of Appointment, Appointing Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar as President of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem on July 7th Actual price: USD $41,820.
  25. Christian Hesse Auktionen Insel-Bücherei - John Heartfield. Fotomontagen aus den Jahren 1924 bis 1944. on July 4th Actual price: USD $41,803.


For the week ahead 32 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jul. 13th
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 7/3. 55 lots

Tue. Jul. 14th
Sothebys. London. Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts - bidstart 7/7. 167 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. US Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 7/7. 571 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 7/7. 179 lots
Sothebys. New York. Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection. 94 lots
Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers. Billinghurst, West Sussex. Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts - Live Online. 123 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 7/3. 40 lots

Wed. Jul. 15th
Sothebys. London. The Collection of a Connoiseur: History in Manuscript - bidstart 7/8. 136 lots
Bonhams. Los Angeles. Music Memorabilia - bidstart 7/1. 83 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 3/20. 150 lots
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers. Kilkenny. The Collector's Sale - Timed Auction. 576 lots

Thu. Jul. 16th
Christies. London - King Street. On the shoulders of Giants - Online bidstart 6/24. 58 lots
Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers. Hudson. 20th Century, Modern and Contemporary Art - Prints. 86 lots
Forum Auctions. London. Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. 236 lots
Sothebys. New York. Magnificent Nudes: Iconic Photographs from Distinguished Private Collections - bidstart 7/9. 52 lots
Sothebys. Paris. The Ginny Williams Collection: Part II: Photographs and Prints. 142 lots
Swann Galleries. New York. Illustration Art. 250 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Science and Technology, and Space Exploration - bidstart 7/9. 408 lots
Finarte. Rome. Recollections: Modern and Contemporary Art's Books and Documents. 243 lots
Leland Little Auctions. Hillsborough, NC. The July Estates Sale - Books, Prints. 49 lots

Fri. Jul. 17th
Eldreds. East Dennis,. The July Auction. 14 lots
Bonhams. Los Angeles. Prints and Multiples Online. 111 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 7/10. 150 lots

Sat. Jul. 18th
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. Thomaston. Summer's Bounty #1, Day 1. 37 lots
Nadeau's Auction Gallery. Windsor. Books, Prints. 19 lots
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper. 200 lots

Sun. Jul. 19th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters Weekly.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 7/5. 245 lots
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. Thomaston. Summer's Bounty #1, Day 2. 24 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 7/10. 35 lots

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • 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.
  • 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