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Rare Book Hub: 23 Auctions Archived, another 32 Upcoming this Week
For the week ended Friday, 11 September 2020, 23 auctions were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transactions+ Database; 1 denominated in Danish krona, 5 in euros, 1 in British pounds, 2 in Mexican pesos, and 14 in US dollars. Turnover was $3,694,192 as 5,551 lots were offered and 4,632 sold at the rate of 83% success.
1 auction saw total proceeds reach a million dollars:
Robert Siegel Galleries. Civil War Postal History, featuring the 'Ambassador' Collection on September 9th: $1,156,996
3 auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered:
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps & Documents, The David Wilson Library of Natural History (Pt II), Military Books on September 10th: 161.31%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 8/21 on August 31st: 131.84%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 8/21 on August 30th: 125.22%
15 sales saw at least 80% of their lots sell:
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 9/1 on September 8th: 100.00%
Aspire Auctions. Fine Art Prints - Online bidstart 8/28 on September 5th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 8/23 on September 6th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 9/1 on September 8th: 99.79%
Heritage Auctions. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online - bidstart 8/30 on September 7th: 99.34%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 8/30 on September 6th: 98.18%
Skinner. Irresistible - Unreserved - bidstart 9/1 on September 10th: 96.97%
Robert Siegel Galleries. Civil War Postal History, featuring the 'Ambassador' Collection on September 9th: 95.40%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on September 5th: 94.00%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 8/21 on August 31st: 92.31%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on September 8th: 88.89%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps & Documents, The David Wilson Library of Natural History (Pt II), Military Books on September 10th: 84.10%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 8/21 on August 30th: 84.00%
North American Auction Company. Early September American Indian and Western Sale on September 5th: 82.11%
PBA Galleries. PBA Platinum: Rare Books & Manuscripts on September 10th: 80.58%
23 total sales reported this week:
Venator and Hanstein. Summer Sale on June 18th: 29.84%
Skinner. Irresistible - Unreserved - bidstart 9/1 on September 10th: 96.97%
PBA Galleries. PBA Platinum: Rare Books & Manuscripts on September 10th: 80.58%
One Of A Kind Collectibles. Rare Autographs, Books and Sports on September 10th: 74.82%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps & Documents, The David Wilson Library of Natural History (Pt II), Military Books on September 10th: 84.10%
Winner's Auctions Ltd. Tukachinsky Archive on September 9th: 76.52%
Robert Siegel Galleries. Civil War Postal History, featuring the 'Ambassador' Collection on September 9th: 95.40%
Heritage Auctions. Photographs Monthly Online Auction on September 9th: 64.03%
Aspire Auctions. Fine Art Prints - Online bidstart 8/28 on September 5th: 100.00%
Bruun Rasmussen. Prints on September 8th: 88.89%
Morton Subastas. AUCTION OF BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICO, THE FIRST EMPIRE AND THE FIRST REPUBLI on September 8th: 41.27%
Heritage Auctions. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 9/1 on September 8th: 99.79%
Heritage Auctions. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 9/1 on September 8th: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online - bidstart 8/30 on September 7th: 99.34%
Heritage Auctions. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 8/23 on September 6th: 100.00%
North American Auction Company. Early September American Indian and Western Sale on September 5th: 82.11%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 8/30 on September 6th: 98.18%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on September 5th: 94.00%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 8/28 on September 4th: 73.08%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 8/21 on September 1st: 62.22%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 8/21 on August 31st: 92.31%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 8/21 on August 30th: 84.00%
Morton Subastas. Modern Art - Prints, and Books on Art on September 5th: 69.75%
For the week ahead 32 sales are scheduled:
Mon. Sep. 14th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Americana and Political Signature Auction. 382 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Prints. 88 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - bidstart 9/4. 104 lots
Cowans Auctions. Cincinnati. American Historical Ephemera and Photography: Timed Auction - online bidstart 9/4. 182 lots
Tue. Sep. 15th
Ketterer Kunst . Munich. Art - Online only timed auction. 20 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 9/8. 509 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 9/8. 161 lots
Sothebys. New York. Hip Hop. 85 lots
Kedem Auctions Ltd.. Jerusalem . Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, and Rabbinical Letters. 376 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - bidstart 9/4. 24 lots
Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers. Billinghurst, West Sussex. Science Books from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. Part I. 208 lots
Wed. Sep. 16th
Old World Auctions. Richmond. Maps and Atlases - Internet bidstart 9/2. 895 lots
Aste Bolaffi. Turin. Advertising Posters. 242 lots
Rossini. Paris. Lithographs, Fine Art Prints. 139 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Books. 43 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 9/4. 105 lots
Witherell's. Sacramento. Part I-Luxury Asset Auction: Featuring Property from the Estate of C. K. McClatchy, Sacramento, CA (. 32 lots
Thu. Sep. 17th
Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC. Timonium. The World War II Library of John R. Elliot - POSTPONED, Date TBA. 471 lots
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Final Frontier: Space Exploration & Flight Through the Ages - Fact & Fiction. Timed Auction - bidsta. 194 lots
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers. Carlisle. Antiquarian and Collectable Books Auction. 313 lots
Sothebys. London. Prints and Multiples - bidstart 9/10. 103 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Currency Signature Auction. 1604 lots
AntiquarianAuctions.com. Lakeville. Rare Books - Online bidstart 9/10. 556 lots
Forum Auctions. London. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper. 281 lots
Witherell's. Sacramento. Part II-Luxury Asset Auction: Featuring Property from the Estate of C. K. McClatchy, Sacramento, CA. 103 lots
Fri. Sep. 18th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. World Paper Money Signature Auction. 651 lots
Christies. New York. Nourishment for the Soul: The Herrmann Collection of Prints by Pablo Picasso. 34 lots
Sat. Sep. 19th
Leland Little Auctions. Hillsborough, NC. Important Fall Auction. 22 lots
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper. 200 lots
Sun. Sep. 20th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 9/13.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online - bidstart 9/13.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 9/6. 249 lots
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Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000. -
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000 -
Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 MarchKoller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.