For the week ended 12 December, 115 auctions have been archived to Rare Book Hub’s Transactions+: 1 denominated in Australian dollars, 1 in Canadian dollars, 28 in euros, 25 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, 1 in New Zealand dollars, 5 in Polish zloty, 3 in Swedish krona, and 50 in US dollars.
Turnover was $46,933,926.15. The average lot brought $3,046.47. 81.79 percent of this past week’s lots sold as 18,836 lots were offered, and 15,406 found new homes.
This report includes this past week’s Top 25s for 14 categories, full details for this past week’s sales, as well as a full listing of the upcoming week’s 82 sales.
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Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
Heritage Auctions Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope (TCF, 1977), Historic Half Sheet Key Poster Artwork by Tom Jung. on December 10th Actual price: USD $3,875,000.Christies Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus. on December 10th Actual price: USD $1,356,668.Sothebys Historia naturalis. Ed: Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria. on December 9th Actual price: USD $1,270,000.Christies Gospels on December 10th Actual price: USD $1,187,084.Sothebys Opera [Greek]. Contains also works of Galenus (II); Philo Judaeus (II); Theophrastus (II-IV); Alexander Aphrodisaeus (IV). on December 9th Actual price: USD $660,400.Sothebys Los Caprichos (Delteil 38-117; Harris 26-115) on December 5th Actual price: USD $473,235.Sothebys Lapidarius. Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur. Physiognomia. on December 9th Actual price: USD $381,000.Sothebys The Hundred Guilder Print (B., Holl. 74; New Holl. 239) on December 5th Actual price: USD $371,827.Sothebys Historia naturalis [Italian] (Tr: Christophorus Landinus). on December 9th Actual price: USD $355,600.Sothebys Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London on December 11th Actual price: USD $340,252.Christies Polychronicon on December 10th Actual price: USD $322,209.Sothebys On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection [1858-59] on December 11th Actual price: USD $306,228.Sothebys Biblia Latina, a bifolium printed on vellum from the Gutenberg or 42-line Bible. on December 11th Actual price: USD $289,214.Lyon and Turnbull A MAMLUK MANUSCRIPT OF IBN AKHI HIZAM'S 'KITAB AL-BAYTARAH' ('BOOK OF HIPPIATRICS' OR HORSE MEDICINE) on December 10th Actual price: USD $252,372.Sothebys Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the finale of the Piano Quartet in E flat, K.493, FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF PAUL HIRSCH on December 11th Actual price: USD $238,176.Rago Arts and Auctions The Little Screens on December 11th Actual price: USD $228,600.Christies Series of 18 autograph letters signed ('E. Jenner' on December 10th Actual price: USD $220,459.Heritage Auctions Malaya and British Borneo Board of Commissioners of Currency 1000 Dollars 21.3.1953 Pick 6a B106 KNB6a PMG About Uncirculated 50 EPQ. on December 9th Actual price: USD $204,000.Christies Ob usum experientiamque multiplicem on December 10th Actual price: USD $186,542.Christies Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $186,542.Sothebys Elementa geometriae (Latin, translated by Adelard of Bath, edited and with commentary by Campanus of Novara). on December 9th Actual price: USD $177,800.Christies The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands on December 10th Actual price: USD $169,583.Christies The Cromer Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $169,583.Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Asterix - Planche ndeg5 on December 6th Actual price: USD $164,306.Christies On Computable Numbers: first edition on December 11th Actual price: USD $161,620.
Maps - Top Lots by Price
Sothebys Lapidarius. Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur. Physiognomia. on December 9th Actual price: USD $381,000.Sothebys A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland; on December 9th Actual price: USD $139,700.Christies The designer's own annotated copy of the London Underground Map on December 11th Actual price: USD $119,089.Sothebys Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London ... Observations sur les volcans des Deux Siciles. on December 9th Actual price: USD $107,950.Christies Theatro del Mondo. on December 10th Actual price: USD $81,400.Christies Theatrum orbis terrarum on December 10th Actual price: USD $81,400.Stockholms Auktionsverk HAMILTON'S SPECTACULAR AND VERY RARE PLATE WORK ON VESUVIUS, Naples 1776-79. on December 8th Actual price: USD $74,723.Stockholms Auktionsverk GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI. GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI, THE ROMAN ANTIQUITY, Rome 1756, second state, 4 vols, provenance Horace Walpole, Gosta Stenman. on December 8th Actual price: USD $72,054.Sothebys The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Being the First Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836. on December 9th Actual price: USD $53,340.Christies Liber chronicarum. on December 10th Actual price: USD $50,875.Arader Galleries A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; in Which the Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed ... Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of Any Navigable Communication Betwe on November 22nd Actual price: USD $50,400.Stockholms Auktionsverk DE WIT'S RARE WALL-MAP OF AMERICA, 1672, New and accurate Americae tableau. on December 8th Actual price: USD $46,702.Christies Belli civilis libri decem (alias Pharsalia) on December 10th Actual price: USD $42,396.Arader Galleries West Indische Paskaert. Engraved map with original hand color.<br> <br> on November 22nd Actual price: USD $40,800.Aguttes The Theatre of the World or New Atlas, Illuminated Guillaume & Iean Blaeu. on December 5th Actual price: USD $39,678.Christies Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Foederate-- Regiae. on December 10th Actual price: USD $37,308.Christies A survey of the microcosme. Or the anatomie of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin on December 10th Actual price: USD $32,221.Swann Galleries (TRAVEL -- SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NAVIGATION.) Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes Orientales... Le Grand Routier de Mer... Description de l'Amerique on December 9th Actual price: USD $30,480.Christies On the Mode of Communication of Cholera... Second edition. on December 10th Actual price: USD $25,438.Swann Galleries (AMERICAN ATLAS.) A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of all the Known Countries in the World on December 9th Actual price: USD $25,400.Christies Selecta Praxis Medico-Chirurgicae quam Mosquae exercet ... typis et figuris expressa Parisiis moderante Ambr. Tardieu. on December 10th Actual price: USD $23,742.Arader Galleries Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae (Part One, in Latin, of De Bry's Great Voyages). on November 22nd Actual price: USD $22,800.Christies Atlas der Hautkrankheiten. on December 10th Actual price: USD $22,046.Arader Galleries [World Map] Hemispherium ab aequinoctiali linea, ad circulum poli arctici and poli antarctici. Engraved map. on November 22nd Actual price: USD $19,200.Swann Galleries (BOSTON.) Plan de la Ville et du Port de Boston Capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre on December 9th Actual price: USD $19,050.
Music - Top Lots by Price
Heritage Auctions Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope (TCF, 1977), Historic Half Sheet Key Poster Artwork by Tom Jung. on December 10th Actual price: USD $3,875,000.Sothebys Opera [Greek]. Contains also works of Galenus (II); Philo Judaeus (II); Theophrastus (II-IV); Alexander Aphrodisaeus (IV). on December 9th Actual price: USD $660,400.Christies Ob usum experientiamque multiplicem on December 10th Actual price: USD $186,542.Christies Antidotarium; Quid pro quo; Synonyma on December 10th Actual price: USD $64,442.Christies Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $32,221.Sothebys 5 fragments with St Gall Neumes on December 9th Actual price: USD $25,438.Christies The Throne of Mercy on December 10th Actual price: USD $23,742.Heritage Auctions (The Beatles-Related) Official Abbey Road NW8, City Of Westminster British Street Sign. on December 10th Actual price: USD $22,500.Christies Eight first editions that inspired hits of stage and screen on December 11th Actual price: USD $20,415.Christies Opera medicinalia. - Petrus de ABANO. Additiones ad practicam. on December 10th Actual price: USD $20,350.Christies [Sammelband of 7 Roman incunables. on December 10th Actual price: USD $16,110.Christies Christ Blessing on December 10th Actual price: USD $15,263.Heritage Auctions George Lucas Signed 1971 Distribution Agreement Between Lucas Film Ltd. and United Artists for Two "Pictures" Which Would Become American Graffiti and Star Wars. on December 10th Actual price: USD $13,750.Christies [Opera Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis on December 10th Actual price: USD $13,567.Fleischer's Auctions [Daguerreotype] Jenny Lind, Unpublished on March 11th Actual price: USD $12,915.Christies The Nativity on December 10th Actual price: USD $11,023.Heritage Auctions The Beatles Signed Love Letters to . . . Hardcover Book (Anthony Blond LTD, 1964). on December 10th Actual price: USD $10,313.Christies Papadike on December 10th Actual price: USD $10,175.Heritage Auctions Caddyshack (Warner Bros., 1980), "Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack" Key Art by John Solie. on December 10th Actual price: USD $10,000.Beaussant Lefevre Ensemble d'estampes representant la guerre franco-chinoise opposant la France de la Troisieme Republique a la Chine de la dynastie Qing entre aout 1884 et juin 1885 on December 5th Actual price: USD $9,736.Catawiki B. V. Biblia Latina on December 5th Actual price: USD $9,540.RR Auction Peg Leg Pete production drawings (2) and character model drawing from Steamboat Willie on November 10th Actual price: USD $9,074.Bertolami Fine Art La strada bianca on December 4th Actual price: USD $8,944.Forum Auctions Lulu, from Metropolitan Fine Art on December 10th Actual price: USD $8,479.RR Auction Celebrity Polaroid Collection of Over 3,000 Candid Photographs on November 10th Actual price: USD $7,871.
Manuscripts - Top Lots by Price
Sothebys Historia naturalis. Ed: Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria. on December 9th Actual price: USD $1,270,000.Christies Gospels on December 10th Actual price: USD $1,187,084.Sothebys Lapidarius. Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur. Physiognomia. on December 9th Actual price: USD $381,000.Sothebys Historia naturalis [Italian] (Tr: Christophorus Landinus). on December 9th Actual price: USD $355,600.Christies Polychronicon on December 10th Actual price: USD $322,209.Lyon and Turnbull A MAMLUK MANUSCRIPT OF IBN AKHI HIZAM'S 'KITAB AL-BAYTARAH' ('BOOK OF HIPPIATRICS' OR HORSE MEDICINE) on December 10th Actual price: USD $252,372.Christies Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $186,542.Sothebys Elementa geometriae (Latin, translated by Adelard of Bath, edited and with commentary by Campanus of Novara). on December 9th Actual price: USD $177,800.Christies The Cromer Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $169,583.Christies Introduction to Grammar on December 10th Actual price: USD $144,146.Sothebys A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland; on December 9th Actual price: USD $139,700.Sothebys Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. on December 9th Actual price: USD $127,000.Stockholms Auktionsverk DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT, FINE ARABIC MANUSCRIPT, dated 1210 (1795-96). on December 8th Actual price: USD $112,084.Christies Herbarum vivae eiconebsic ad naturae imitationem... -- Novi Herbarii tomus II. -- Tomus herbaria III. on December 10th Actual price: USD $101,750.Sothebys Probir Buchlin, auff Goldt, Silber, alle Ertz und Metall. Mit vil kostbarlichen Alchimeijschen Kunsten. Sampt allem zugehor und Instrumenten darzu dienlich. Die Bergknamen, fur die newen angonde Bergkleut. on December 9th Actual price: USD $95,250.Christies Epistolae on December 10th Actual price: USD $93,271.Christies De medicina. Edited by Bartholomaeus Fontius (1445-1513). on December 10th Actual price: USD $84,792.Heritage Auctions China Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Shanghai 20 Taels 1.3.1907 Pick S292 S/M#T101-13c PMG Choice Very Fine 35. on December 9th Actual price: USD $78,000.Christies Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $76,313.Stockholms Auktionsverk GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI. GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI, THE ROMAN ANTIQUITY, Rome 1756, second state, 4 vols, provenance Horace Walpole, Gosta Stenman. on December 8th Actual price: USD $72,054.Christies Speculum humanae salvationis on December 10th Actual price: USD $67,833.Christies Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $67,833.Christies Decamerone on December 10th Actual price: USD $67,833.Christies La Divina Commedia on December 10th Actual price: USD $59,354.Christies Psalter-Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $59,354.
Poetry - Top Lots by Price
Christies Decamerone on December 10th Actual price: USD $67,833.Christies Opticks on December 10th Actual price: USD $54,267.Christies New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus ... and the Temple of Flora on December 10th Actual price: USD $54,267.Aguttes L'Architecture consideree sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la legislation...Tome premier. on December 5th Actual price: USD $47,761.Christies Belli civilis libri decem (alias Pharsalia) on December 10th Actual price: USD $42,396.Christies Fragments of Olympic Gossip: autograph poem on December 11th Actual price: USD $40,830.Christies Heroides on December 10th Actual price: USD $40,700.RR Auction Samuel L. Clemens Autograph Letter Signed with Sketch, Criticizing Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich: "This vacant hellion, this clothes-rack, this twaddling, blethering, driveling blatherskite!" on November 10th Actual price: USD $32,050.Christies Regulae de constructione on December 10th Actual price: USD $30,525.Christies Poetria nova on December 10th Actual price: USD $27,133.RR Auction F. Scott Fitzgerald Autograph Letter Signed: "I hope that girl isn't putting him through any special hells" on November 10th Actual price: USD $12,079.Olympia Auctions GEORGE RICHMOND RA (BRITISH 1809-1896) on December 10th Actual price: USD $11,283.Aguttes Claudiani Quae exstant. Nic. Heinsius Dan. Fil. Recensuit ac notas addidit, post primam editionem altera fere parte nunc auctiores. Accedunt selecta variorum commentaria, accurante C. S. M. D. on December 5th Actual price: USD $11,021.Lyon and Turnbull LAYLA VISITING MAJNUN IN THE WILDERNESS on December 10th Actual price: USD $10,175.Christies Cicero on December 10th Actual price: USD $8,479.Christies An American Prayer: signed first edition on December 11th Actual price: USD $6,465.Heritage Auctions Weird Tales #67 April 1929 Frank M. Robinson Pedigree (Popular Fiction) CGC VF 8.0 White pages. on December 6th Actual price: USD $5,520.Marion Antique Auctions (10) Muhammad Ali by Andy Warhol Posters on December 5th Actual price: USD $4,608.Lyon and Turnbull RAJPUT PAINTING on December 10th Actual price: USD $4,409.Marion Antique Auctions (15) Muhammad Ali Signed Serigraphs on December 5th Actual price: USD $4,224.Aguttes L.A.S. "Thomas Mann", Munchen 23.V.1923, to Desider (Desz?) KOSZTOLANYI in Budapest on December 5th Actual price: USD $3,931.Marion Antique Auctions (15) Muhammad Ali Signed Serigraphs on December 5th Actual price: USD $3,840.Marion Antique Auctions (15) Muhammad Ali Signed Serigraphs on December 5th Actual price: USD $3,840.Lyon and Turnbull A COLLECTION OF OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPTS on December 10th Actual price: USD $3,392.Dominic Winter Book Auctions Reid (Forrest). The Bracknels, a family chronicle on December 10th Actual price: USD $3,207.
Photography - Top Lots by Price
Heritage Auctions Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope (TCF, 1977), Historic Half Sheet Key Poster Artwork by Tom Jung. on December 10th Actual price: USD $3,875,000.Christies The Moon Landing Triptych on December 11th Actual price: USD $93,570.Christies 56 large original watercolours of patients with various diseases. Mumbai on December 10th Actual price: USD $81,400.Propstore DIE HARD (1988) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Heavily Annotated Personal Shooting Script, Revised on December 7th Actual price: USD $65,376.Heritage Auctions Extraordinary Marilyn Monroe Signed and Inscribed Photograph (ca. 1952). on December 10th Actual price: USD $40,000.Fleischer's Auctions White Child Mourned by African American Child, Historic Photograph on March 11th Actual price: USD $32,595.Propstore STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)/STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) - C-3PO's (Anthony on December 7th Actual price: USD $26,150.Heritage Auctions The Godfather Part II (Paramount, 1974), Fred Roos' Custom-Bound Second Draft Screenplay with Inlaid Photos. on December 10th Actual price: USD $25,000.Heritage Auctions The Outsiders (Zoetrope, 1982), Custom-Bound Copy of Shooting Script with Inlaid Studio and BTS Photos, Synopsis Sheets, and Additional Publicity Materials. on December 10th Actual price: USD $20,625.Heritage Auctions Walt Disney Signed Portrait Photograph (1951). on December 10th Actual price: USD $17,500.Propstore ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES (1991) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Bound Primary Hand-Annotated on December 7th Actual price: USD $17,434.Propstore BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) - Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Huey Lewis, Bob Gale and on December 7th Actual price: USD $16,562.Christies Tibet and Lhasa. Photographs by J. C. White on December 10th Actual price: USD $15,263.Heritage Auctions Apocalypse Now (Zoetrope, 1979), Fred Roos' Custom-Bound Combined Script with Continuity Draft, Press Materials, and BTS Photos. on December 10th Actual price: USD $15,000.Heritage Auctions The Beatles Signed Album Page Plus Promotional Photo (1960s). on December 10th Actual price: USD $13,750.Propstore STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) - Production-made Rebel Trooper DH-17 Stunt Blaster on December 7th Actual price: USD $13,075.Fleischer's Auctions [Daguerreotype] Jenny Lind, Unpublished on March 11th Actual price: USD $12,915.Propstore LOVE ACTUALLY (2003) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Personal Hand-Annotated Shooting Script, Letters on December 7th Actual price: USD $12,204.Propstore STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) - Alec Mills' Bound Personal Shooting Script on December 7th Actual price: USD $12,204.RR Auction Marilyn Monroe Signed Photograph by Frank Powolny on November 10th Actual price: USD $11,344.Aguttes TAPUSCRIT with autograph CORRECTIONS,Maigret en meuble, 1941 on December 5th Actual price: USD $11,339.Fleischer's Auctions Portrait of Edmund Kelly, Fugitive Slave & Lecturer on March 11th Actual price: USD $10,763.Propstore ALIENS (1986) - John R. Mullaney Collection: Hand-illustrated and Painted "Powerloader" Artwork by on December 7th Actual price: USD $10,460.Propstore HARRY POTTER SERIES (2001 - 2011) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Personal Handwritten Notes and Cards on December 7th Actual price: USD $10,460.Heritage Auctions KISS Creatures of the Night Original Album Production Art (Casablanca, 1982). on December 10th Actual price: USD $10,313.
Art and arts - Top Lots by Price
Heritage Auctions Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope (TCF, 1977), Historic Half Sheet Key Poster Artwork by Tom Jung. on December 10th Actual price: USD $3,875,000.Christies Gospels on December 10th Actual price: USD $1,187,084.Sothebys Los Caprichos (Delteil 38-117; Harris 26-115) on December 5th Actual price: USD $473,235.Sothebys The Hundred Guilder Print (B., Holl. 74; New Holl. 239) on December 5th Actual price: USD $371,827.Lyon and Turnbull A MAMLUK MANUSCRIPT OF IBN AKHI HIZAM'S 'KITAB AL-BAYTARAH' ('BOOK OF HIPPIATRICS' OR HORSE MEDICINE) on December 10th Actual price: USD $252,372.Christies The Cromer Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $169,583.Beaussant Lefevre Album accordeon comprenant soixante-dix estampes, oban yoko-e, de la serie Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi, les soixante-neuf stations du Kisokaido (complet). on December 5th Actual price: USD $121,502.Christies De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. on December 10th Actual price: USD $110,229.Sothebys Probir Buchlin, auff Goldt, Silber, alle Ertz und Metall. Mit vil kostbarlichen Alchimeijschen Kunsten. Sampt allem zugehor und Instrumenten darzu dienlich. Die Bergknamen, fur die newen angonde Bergkleut. on December 9th Actual price: USD $95,250.Christies The Moon Landing Triptych on December 11th Actual price: USD $93,570.Christies Epistolae on December 10th Actual price: USD $93,271.Sothebys Abraham's Sacrifice (B., Holl. 35; New Holl. 287) on December 5th Actual price: USD $92,957.Sothebys Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des science, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres (volumes I-XVII). on December 9th Actual price: USD $88,900.Christies De medicina. Edited by Bartholomaeus Fontius (1445-1513). on December 10th Actual price: USD $84,792.Christies Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $76,313.Christies A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants. on December 10th Actual price: USD $76,313.Stockholms Auktionsverk HAMILTON'S SPECTACULAR AND VERY RARE PLATE WORK ON VESUVIUS, Naples 1776-79. on December 8th Actual price: USD $74,723.Stockholms Auktionsverk GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI. GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI, THE ROMAN ANTIQUITY, Rome 1756, second state, 4 vols, provenance Horace Walpole, Gosta Stenman. on December 8th Actual price: USD $72,054.Christies De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. on December 10th Actual price: USD $67,833.Forum Auctions Sitting Bull (Feldman & Schellmann IIIA.70) on December 10th Actual price: USD $67,833.Sothebys Los Desastres de la Guerra (Delteil 120-199; Harris 121-200) on December 5th Actual price: USD $67,605.Heritage Auctions Snappy Mystery Stories Ashcan #1 (V1#2) May 1935 (Culture) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. on December 6th Actual price: USD $66,000.Arenberg Auctions Code Napoleon. Edition originale et seule officielle. on December 12th Actual price: USD $61,031.Christies Psalter-Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $59,354.Sothebys The Return of the Prodigal Son (B., Holl. 91; New Holl. 159) on December 5th Actual price: USD $59,154.
Graphics and illustrations - Top Lots by Price
Heritage Auctions Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope (TCF, 1977), Historic Half Sheet Key Poster Artwork by Tom Jung. on December 10th Actual price: USD $3,875,000.Christies Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus. on December 10th Actual price: USD $1,356,668.Sothebys Historia naturalis [Italian] (Tr: Christophorus Landinus). on December 9th Actual price: USD $355,600.Christies Polychronicon on December 10th Actual price: USD $322,209.Christies The Cromer Book of Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $169,583.Sothebys Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. on December 9th Actual price: USD $127,000.Christies The Birds of Great Britain. on December 10th Actual price: USD $118,708.Sothebys Osnovy khimii [Principles of Chemistry, in Russian & Cyrillic]. on December 9th Actual price: USD $114,300.Christies De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. on December 10th Actual price: USD $110,229.Christies Herbarum vivae eiconebsic ad naturae imitationem... -- Novi Herbarii tomus II. -- Tomus herbaria III. on December 10th Actual price: USD $101,750.Sothebys Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des science, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres (volumes I-XVII). on December 9th Actual price: USD $88,900.Christies Theatro del Mondo. on December 10th Actual price: USD $81,400.Christies 56 large original watercolours of patients with various diseases. Mumbai on December 10th Actual price: USD $81,400.Morphy Auctions OWL CIGAR REVERSE ON GLASS on December 6th Actual price: USD $69,120.Christies De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. on December 10th Actual price: USD $67,833.Forum Auctions Pool Made with Paper and Blue Ink for Book, from Paper Pools (MCA Tokyo 234) on December 10th Actual price: USD $61,050.Sothebys De re metallica libri XII. Qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, on December 9th Actual price: USD $60,960.Christies Psalter-Hours on December 10th Actual price: USD $59,354.Christies New Kreuterbuch. on December 10th Actual price: USD $59,354.Morphy Auctions COMPLETE SET OF 7 ITHICA TIN MILEAGE SIGNS FOR SIEBER HARDWARE WITH THE ORIGINAL CRATE on December 6th Actual price: USD $56,320.Bonhams Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Edition A on December 9th Actual price: USD $54,694.Bonhams Mao on December 9th Actual price: USD $54,694.Christies New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus ... and the Temple of Flora on December 10th Actual price: USD $54,267.Sothebys The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Being the First Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836. on December 9th Actual price: USD $53,340.Christies Liber chronicarum. on December 10th Actual price: USD $50,875.
Science - Top Lots by Price
Heritage Auctions Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope (TCF, 1977), Historic Half Sheet Key Poster Artwork by Tom Jung. on December 10th Actual price: USD $3,875,000.Christies Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus. on December 10th Actual price: USD $1,356,668.Sothebys Lapidarius. Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur. Physiognomia. on December 9th Actual price: USD $381,000.Sothebys Historia naturalis [Italian] (Tr: Christophorus Landinus). on December 9th Actual price: USD $355,600.Lyon and Turnbull A MAMLUK MANUSCRIPT OF IBN AKHI HIZAM'S 'KITAB AL-BAYTARAH' ('BOOK OF HIPPIATRICS' OR HORSE MEDICINE) on December 10th Actual price: USD $252,372.Christies Series of 18 autograph letters signed ('E. Jenner' on December 10th Actual price: USD $220,459.Sothebys Elementa geometriae (Latin, translated by Adelard of Bath, edited and with commentary by Campanus of Novara). on December 9th Actual price: USD $177,800.Sothebys A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland; on December 9th Actual price: USD $139,700.Sothebys Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. on December 9th Actual price: USD $127,000.Sothebys Osnovy khimii [Principles of Chemistry, in Russian & Cyrillic]. on December 9th Actual price: USD $114,300.Christies De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. on December 10th Actual price: USD $110,229.Sothebys Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London ... Observations sur les volcans des Deux Siciles. on December 9th Actual price: USD $107,950.Christies Herbarum vivae eiconebsic ad naturae imitationem... -- Novi Herbarii tomus II. -- Tomus herbaria III. on December 10th Actual price: USD $101,750.Sothebys Probir Buchlin, auff Goldt, Silber, alle Ertz und Metall. Mit vil kostbarlichen Alchimeijschen Kunsten. Sampt allem zugehor und Instrumenten darzu dienlich. Die Bergknamen, fur die newen angonde Bergkleut. on December 9th Actual price: USD $95,250.Heritage Auctions Weird Tales #1 March 1923 First State (Rural) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white to white pages. on December 6th Actual price: USD $90,000.Sothebys Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des science, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres (volumes I-XVII). on December 9th Actual price: USD $88,900.Christies A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants. on December 10th Actual price: USD $76,313.Christies De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. on December 10th Actual price: USD $67,833.Christies Antidotarium; Quid pro quo; Synonyma on December 10th Actual price: USD $64,442.Sothebys De re metallica libri XII. Qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, on December 9th Actual price: USD $60,960.Christies New Kreuterbuch. on December 10th Actual price: USD $59,354.Christies Opticks on December 10th Actual price: USD $54,267.Christies New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus ... and the Temple of Flora on December 10th Actual price: USD $54,267.Sothebys The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Being the First Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836. on December 9th Actual price: USD $53,340.Sothebys Histoire naturelle, ou exposition generale de toutes ses parties gravees et imprimees en couleurs naturelles, avec des notes historiques. Partie I. Regne Mineral. on December 9th Actual price: USD $48,260.
Vermont and new hampshire - Top Lots by Price
Arader Galleries Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. on November 22nd Actual price: USD $2,700.Dominic Winter Book Auctions Hampshire. Hampshire, or the County of Southampton on December 10th Actual price: USD $2,194.Fleischer's Auctions Portrait of Flora Stewart, 117 Years Old on March 11th Actual price: USD $1,845.Swann Galleries (NEW ENGLAND.) A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England, Containing the Provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, Divided into Counties and Townships the Whole Composed from Actual Surveys an on December 9th Actual price: USD $1,651.Stockholms Auktionsverk GRETA GARBO, HANDWRITTEN LETTER IN SWEDISH THE CHILDREN OF HER BROTHER SVEN, with Christmas greetings. on December 8th Actual price: USD $1,601.Swann Galleries (NEW ENGLAND.) Map of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, & Rhode Island on December 9th Actual price: USD $1,206.Heritage Auctions New Hampshire April 29, 1780 $5 PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ. on December 7th Actual price: USD $720.Fleischer's Auctions [Civil War] 12th New Hampshire, Large Letter Grouping on March 11th Actual price: USD $677.Fleischer's Auctions Panoramic View of Circus on March 11th Actual price: USD $677.Heritage Auctions New Hampshire April 29, 1780 $1 PMG Choice Uncirculated 63. on December 7th Actual price: USD $660.Heritage Auctions New Hampshire April 29, 1780 $3 PMG Choice About Unc 58. on December 7th Actual price: USD $480.Heritage Auctions New Hampshire April 29, 1780 $20 PMG Choice Extremely Fine 45. on December 7th Actual price: USD $456.Swann Galleries (NEW ENGLAND.) A Map of the New England States Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island & Connecticut with the Adjacent Parts of New York & Lower Canada on December 9th Actual price: USD $444.Fleischer's Auctions [Civil War, Ambrotype] New Hampshire Soldier & Wife on March 11th Actual price: USD $369.Fleischer's Auctions [ALS] Daniel Webster, Framed Signed Letter on March 11th Actual price: USD $277.RR Auction U. S. Grant Cabinet and Associates (12) Signed Items on November 10th Actual price: USD $250.One Source Auctions Antique c. 1922 "Daybreak" by Maxfield Parrish Art Print 10" x 18" ORIGINAL FRAMED on December 8th Actual price: USD $60.Arader Galleries "Cinereous and Sea Eagle, Young". on November 22nd Actual price: USD .Arader Galleries View of Portsmouth, New Hampshire from across the Piscataqua River. on November 22nd Actual price: USD .Swann Galleries (NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Down Memory Lane Edition [Pictorial History of Laconia, New Hampshire] on December 9th Actual price: USD .
Incunabula and older - Top Lots by Price
Christies De medicina. Edited by Bartholomaeus Fontius (1445-1513). on December 10th Actual price: USD $84,792.Christies [Sammelband of 7 Roman incunables. on December 10th Actual price: USD $16,110.Catawiki B. V. Biblia Latina on December 5th Actual price: USD $9,540.Stockholms Auktionsverk LACTANTIUS OPERA, VENICE, Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 1490. on December 8th Actual price: USD $2,936.Stockholms Auktionsverk STATIUS, OPERA, Venice, by Zanis 1494. on December 8th Actual price: USD $2,669.Catawiki B. V. The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) on November 29th Actual price: USD $237.Catawiki B. V. The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) on November 29th Actual price: USD $179.Catawiki B. V. The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) on November 29th Actual price: USD $153.Catawiki B. V. The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) on November 29th Actual price: USD $130.Catawiki B. V. The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) on November 29th Actual price: USD $127.Catawiki B. V. Biblia latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis on December 5th Actual price: USD .
11 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: Christies . Valuable Books and Manuscripts on December 10th: $8,698,276 Heritage Auctions . Hollywood/Entertainment Signature Auction on December 10th: $4,972,444 Sothebys . The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1 on December 9th: $3,964,940 Sothebys . Books, Manuscripts and Music on December 11th: $3,095,168 Heritage Auctions . HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction on December 9th: $2,617,436 Sothebys . Old Master Prints on December 5th: $2,191,247 Heritage Auctions . The Dr. Richard Meli Collection Pulps Signature® Auction on December 6th: $1,841,591 Propstore . Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction - London Winter 2025 on December 7th: $1,362,782 Aguttes . Books and Manuscripts on December 5th: $1,204,348 Rago Arts and Auctions . Photographic Masterworks from an Important Private Collection on December 11th: $1,149,966 Morphy Auctions . Advertising & General Store - Las Vegas on December 6th: $1,014,496
30 auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered: Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers . Home Furnishings and Interiors on December 11th: 1507.84% Heritage Auctions . Satisfaction: The Rolling Stones Treasures from the Ali Zayeri Collection Music Memorabilia Signature® Auction on December 8th: 1008.61% Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers . Weekly Auction of modern Furniture, Collectables, Household Effects, etc, on December 8th: 490.03% Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers . Weekly Auction of Antiques, Collectables, Furniture etc. on December 8th: 441.64% Bonhams . Spencer Tracy. Collection of a Screen Icon on December 11th: 313.65% Beaussant Lefevre . Asian Arts on December 5th: 216.47% Arenberg Auctions . December Auction Day 2 on December 12th: 206.25% OSENAT . The Empire at Fontainebleau -Second Day on December 7th: 204.18% Lyon and Turnbull . Islamic and Indian Art on December 10th: 162.24% Arenberg Auctions . December Auction Day 1 on December 11th: 161.92% Tennants Auctioneers . Books, Maps and Manuscripts on December 11th: 155.27% Stockholms Auktionsverk . The Asian Art Fine Sale on December 11th: 149.57% Carlsen Gallery . Pre-Holiday Antique Auction on December 7th: 148.67% De Baecque and Associes . Popular and Modern Art on December 11th: 148.47% Heritage Auctions . HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction on December 9th: 145.60% Stockholms Auktionsverk . The Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on December 8th: 138.33% Il Ponte . Sport - Paris on December 5th: 134.18% Rago Arts and Auctions . Trading Card Games: Online Edition on December 10th: 133.20% Gorringes . Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Music, Science & Natural History on December 8th: 132.69% Doyle New York . Fine Art: 19th Century & Early Moderism on December 9th: 125.56% Heritage Auctions . Fall U.S. Currency Showcase Auction on December 7th: 125.21% Aguttes . Books and Manuscripts on December 5th: 121.81% ALDE . A few books from the library of a great enthusiast and various others on December 10th: 109.13% Sothebys . The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1 on December 9th: 108.48% Dominic Winter Book Auctions . Printed Books, Maps and Documents on December 10th: 108.06% Moreshet Auctions . The 20th Chabad Auction for Chodesh HaGeulah - session 1 on December 7th: 107.31% Forum Auctions . Online: Books and Works on Paper on December 11th: 107.28% Christies . Valuable Books and Manuscripts on December 10th: 106.02% Swann Galleries . Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books on December 9th: 103.04% Marion Antique Auctions . December 2025 Auction on December 5th: 101.47% 64 sales saw at least 80% of their lots sell: Stockholms Auktionsverk . The Asian Art Fine Sale on December 11th: 100.00% Quinn's Auction Galleries . In Home Book Auction on December 11th: 100.00% Arenberg Auctions . December Auction Day 2 on December 12th: 100.00% Bonhams . Spencer Tracy. Collection of a Screen Icon on December 11th: 100.00% Arenberg Auctions . December Auction Day 1 on December 11th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Golden Age Comics Century Showcase Auction IV on December 11th: 100.00% Rago Arts and Auctions . Trading Card Games: Online Edition on December 10th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Wednesday Trading Card Games Select Auction on December 10th: 100.00% Catawiki B. V. . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) on November 30th: 100.00% Catawiki B. V. . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) on November 29th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction on December 9th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Tuesday Animation and Anime Art, Disneyana and Disneyland Select Auction on December 9th: 100.00% Schilb Antiquarian . Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyers Premium on December 7th: 100.00% Carlsen Gallery . Pre-Holiday Antique Auction on December 7th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Satisfaction: The Rolling Stones Treasures from the Ali Zayeri Collection Music Memorabilia Signature® Auction on December 8th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Pulp Magazine Select Auction on December 7th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Sunday Sports Collectibles Select Auction on December 7th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Fall U.S. Currency Showcase Auction on December 7th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . The Dr. Richard Meli Collection Pulps Signature® Auction on December 6th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Sunday, Monday & Tuesday Comic Books Select Auction on December 9th: 99.89% Heritage Auctions . HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction on December 9th: 99.79% Heritage Auctions . Sunday Movie Posters Select Auction on December 7th: 99.73% Heritage Auctions . Tuesday US Currency Select Auction on December 9th: 99.55% Heritage Auctions . Wednesday Comic Art and Animation Select Auction on December 10th: 99.01% PBA Galleries . Further Selections from the Terry Etherton Photography Book Collection, Timed Sale on December 11th: 98.10% Doyle New York . Fine Art: 19th Century & Early Moderism on December 9th: 97.56% New England Book Auctions . Fine Bindings, Literature Illustrated, including selections from Austin Abbery Rare Books on December 9th: 97.30% Heritage Auctions . Star Wars Movie Posters Signature® Auction: The Doug Hott Collection on December 7th: 97.26% EV Stamps . Stamps and Postal History on December 7th: 96.67% Morphy Auctions . Advertising & General Store - Las Vegas on December 6th: 96.49% OSENAT . The Empire at Fontainebleau -Second Day on December 7th: 96.43% Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers . Thursday Morning at Stair on December 11th: 96.15% Marion Antique Auctions . December 2025 Auction on December 5th: 95.92% Rago Arts and Auctions . Photographic Masterworks from an Important Private Collection on December 11th: 95.83% Swann Galleries . Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books on December 9th: 94.61% Rago Arts and Auctions . Photographs on December 11th: 94.20% Beaussant Lefevre . Asian Arts on December 5th: 94.12% EV Stamps . Sports and Trading Card Auction on December 6th: 93.81% Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books . Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 6th: 92.00% Tennants Auctioneers . Books, Maps and Manuscripts on December 11th: 91.67% Sothebys . The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1 on December 9th: 91.67% Rago Arts and Auctions . Rago, Live Online: Prints Unlimited on December 5th: 91.43% Robert Siegel Galleries . U.S. Postal History on December 6th: 91.00% Stockholms Auktionsverk . The Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on December 8th: 90.00% Christies . Valuable Books and Manuscripts on December 10th: 89.62% Heritage Auctions . Hollywood/Entertainment Signature Auction on December 10th: 88.46% Sothebys . Old Master Prints on December 5th: 88.00% Rachel Davis Fine Arts . Prints and Drawings at Auction on December 6th: 87.64% Grant Zahajko Auctions . Winter Collectibles ft. Sports Cards & Memorabilia, Graded Comic Books,… on December 10th: 87.64% Moreshet Auctions . The 20th Chabad Auction for Chodesh HaGeulah - session 1 on December 7th: 87.33% Tessier & Sarrou and Associates . Comics on December 6th: 87.27% Gorringes . Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Music, Science & Natural History on December 8th: 87.10% Heritage Auctions . Photographs by Todd Webb from the Collection of Hal Gould, Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver Showcase Auction on December 9th: 86.67% Forum Auctions . Online: Books and Works on Paper on December 11th: 86.53% Art + Object . Rare Books on December 9th: 86.32% Holabird Western Americana Collections . "Americana Sunset" Timed Auction: Holabird's Final Sale! Day 5 on December 5th: 86.15% Catawiki B. V. . Autographs and Manuscripts on December 3rd: 85.88% Australian Book Auctions . Travels, Australiana, Literature & Art on December 8th: 85.71% Lyon and Turnbull . Islamic and Indian Art on December 10th: 84.93% One Source Auctions . Quality Antiques and Collectibles Online Auction on December 8th: 84.04% Grays Auctioneers . The December Fine Antiques, Art & Decorations Auction on December 6th: 83.33% Purcell Auctioneers . c.615 Lot Auction - to include Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions including Siged Seamus Heaney, Early Marvel Comics (Spiderman, Wolverine etc.), Republican Interest, GAA Interest, Antiquarian etc. on December 10th: 83.31% Aguttes . Books and Manuscripts on December 5th: 81.32% Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting . Affordable Art Auction on December 7th: 80.00% 115 total sales reported this week: Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers . Home Furnishings and Interiors on December 11th: 67.19% Tennants Auctioneers . Books, Maps and Manuscripts on December 11th: 91.67% Stockholms Auktionsverk . The Asian Art Fine Sale on December 11th: 100.00% Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers . Thursday Morning at Stair on December 11th: 96.15% Sothebys . Books, Manuscripts and Music on December 11th: 78.40% Rago Arts and Auctions . Photographs on December 11th: 94.20% Rago Arts and Auctions . Photographic Masterworks from an Important Private Collection on December 11th: 95.83% Quinn's Auction Galleries . In Home Book Auction on December 11th: 100.00% PBA Galleries . Further Selections from the Terry Etherton Photography Book Collection, Timed Sale on December 11th: 98.10% Gros & Delettrez . Modern and Contemporary Art on December 11th: 60.00% Freeman's | Hindman . The Collected Library on December 11th: 73.93% Forum Auctions . Online: Books and Works on Paper on December 11th: 86.53% De Baecque and Associes . Popular and Modern Art on December 11th: 75.00% Christies . Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time on December 11th: 66.67% Christies . New York: 1925 | A Modern Vision on December 11th: 0.00% Arenberg Auctions . December Auction Day 2 on December 12th: 100.00% Bonhams . Spencer Tracy. Collection of a Screen Icon on December 11th: 100.00% Arenberg Auctions . December Auction Day 1 on December 11th: 100.00% Maison Bibelot . Christmas Auction on December 10th: 70.37% Australian Book Auctions . Travels, Australiana, Literature & Art on December 8th: 85.71% Arader Galleries . Fine Art, Rare Maps and Natural History on November 22nd: 53.85% Heritage Auctions . Golden Age Comics Century Showcase Auction IV on December 11th: 100.00% RR Auction . Fine Autographs and Artifacts on November 10th: 57.18% Vermot de Pas . 500 Autographs and Small Collections on December 10th: 16.71% Purcell Auctioneers . c.615 Lot Auction - to include Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions including Siged Seamus Heaney, Early Marvel Comics (Spiderman, Wolverine etc.), Republican Interest, GAA Interest, Antiquarian etc. on December 10th: 83.31% Rago Arts and Auctions . Trading Card Games: Online Edition on December 10th: 100.00% PIASA . Modern and Contemporary Art on December 10th: 69.23% Olympia Auctions . Fine Paintings, Works on Paper, and Sculpture on December 10th: 68.75% Lyon and Turnbull . Islamic and Indian Art on December 10th: 84.93% Hansons . Derby December Music Memorabilia Auction on December 10th: 52.38% Grant Zahajko Auctions . Winter Collectibles ft. Sports Cards & Memorabilia, Graded Comic Books,… on December 10th: 87.64% Forum Auctions . The British Sale on December 10th: 73.26% Dominic Winter Book Auctions . Printed Books, Maps and Documents on December 10th: 79.41% Desa Unicum . Collectible Photography. Celebrities, Stars and Personalities on December 10th: 59.77% De Baecque and Associes . Arts From Asia and Oceana on December 10th: 48.48% Christies . Valuable Books and Manuscripts on December 10th: 89.62% ALDE . A few books from the library of a great enthusiast and various others on December 10th: 54.55% Ader . Ancient and Modern Prints on December 10th: 74.37% Swann Galleries . Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books on December 9th: 94.61% Sothebys . Modern & Contemporary Discoveries on December 10th: 66.67% Sothebys . The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 1 on December 9th: 91.67% Sothebys . Western Illuminated Manuscripts on December 9th: 36.84% New England Book Auctions . Fine Bindings, Literature Illustrated, including selections from Austin Abbery Rare Books on December 9th: 97.30% Doyle New York . Fine Art: 19th Century & Early Moderism on December 9th: 97.56% Chorley's . The Christmas Auction 2025 on December 9th: 65.22% Chiswick Auctions . Design and Contemporary on December 9th: 72.41% Bonhams . Honouring an Icon. Support the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation - online 4/18 on May 7th: 47.06% Bonhams . Indian and Islamic Art Online on December 9th: 67.74% Bonhams . Fine Prints & Multiples x ICONS on December 9th: 62.07% Art + Object . Rare Books on December 9th: 86.32% Heritage Auctions . Wednesday Comic Art and Animation Select Auction on December 10th: 99.01% Heritage Auctions . Wednesday Trading Card Games Select Auction on December 10th: 100.00% Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood . Sporting and Collectors Auction on December 10th: 69.17% Heritage Auctions . Depth of Field: Photographs Showcase Auction on December 10th: 76.81% Heritage Auctions . Hollywood/Entertainment Signature Auction on December 10th: 88.46% Tessier & Sarrou and Associates . Comics on December 6th: 87.27% Bukowskis . Prints and Editions Winter on December 6th: 63.27% Catawiki B. V. . French Literature and Illustrated Auction on December 5th: 25.81% Catawiki B. V. . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) on December 5th: 64.94% Catawiki B. V. . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) on December 3rd: 78.85% Catawiki B. V. . Autographs and Manuscripts on December 3rd: 85.88% Catawiki B. V. . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) on December 1st: 71.21% Catawiki B. V. . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) on November 30th: 100.00% Catawiki B. V. . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) on November 29th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction on December 9th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Tuesday US Currency Select Auction on December 9th: 99.55% Heritage Auctions . Photographs by Todd Webb from the Collection of Hal Gould, Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver Showcase Auction on December 9th: 86.67% Heritage Auctions . Sunday, Monday & Tuesday Comic Books Select Auction on December 9th: 99.89% Heritage Auctions . Tuesday Animation and Anime Art, Disneyana and Disneyland Select Auction on December 9th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction on December 9th: 99.79% Moreshet Auctions . The 20th Chabad Auction for Chodesh HaGeulah - session 1 on December 7th: 87.33% OSENAT . The Empire at Fontainebleau -Second Day on December 7th: 96.43% Stockholms Auktionsverk . The Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on December 8th: 90.00% Rossini . Posters, Lithographs, and Works on Paper on December 8th: 15.57% One Source Auctions . Quality Antiques and Collectibles Online Auction on December 8th: 84.04% Freeman's | Hindman . American Art and Impressionists on December 7th: 0.00% EV Stamps . Stamps and Postal History on December 7th: 96.67% Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers . Weekly Auction of modern Furniture, Collectables, Household Effects, etc, on December 8th: 60.00% Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers . Weekly Auction of Antiques, Collectables, Furniture etc. on December 8th: 62.50% Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting . Affordable Art Auction on December 7th: 80.00% Schilb Antiquarian . Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyers Premium on December 7th: 100.00% Vermot de Pas . NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest on December 8th: 10.67% Gorringes . Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Music, Science & Natural History on December 8th: 87.10% Desa Unicum . Atelier Mourlot and the Avant-Garde Classics on December 8th: 46.67% Carlsen Gallery . Pre-Holiday Antique Auction on December 7th: 100.00% Propstore . Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction - London Winter 2025 on December 7th: 70.26% Robert Siegel Galleries . U.S. Postal History on December 6th: 91.00% Rachel Davis Fine Arts . Prints and Drawings at Auction on December 6th: 87.64% Morton Subastas . Saturday Sale on December 6th: 50.00% Grays Auctioneers . The December Fine Antiques, Art & Decorations Auction on December 6th: 83.33% EV Stamps . Sports and Trading Card Auction on December 6th: 93.81% Morphy Auctions . Advertising & General Store - Las Vegas on December 6th: 96.49% Zwiggelaar Auctions . Books, Graphics, Ephemera - Session V on December 5th: 72.79% Tennants Auctioneers . Toys & Models, Sporting & Fishing. on December 5th: 73.08% Sothebys . Old Master Prints on December 5th: 88.00% Sloane Street Auctions . The Christmas Fine Art Auction: To Include Noble Estates, Old and Modern Masters, Sculpture, Jewellery and Fine Wines on December 5th: 63.64% Rago Arts and Auctions . Rago, Live Online: Prints Unlimited on December 5th: 91.43% Marion Antique Auctions . December 2025 Auction on December 5th: 95.92% Il Ponte . Sport - Paris on December 5th: 78.57% Holabird Western Americana Collections . "Americana Sunset" Timed Auction: Holabird's Final Sale! Day 5 on December 5th: 86.15% Freeman's | Hindman . Sports, Session Two: Memorabilia & Sneakers on December 5th: 77.78% Beaussant Lefevre . Asian Arts on December 5th: 94.12% Aguttes . Books and Manuscripts on December 5th: 81.32% Desa Unicum . Ludwik Klimek and the French Avant-garde in the South of France on November 25th: 30.00% Desa Unicum . Happy Birthday, Pablo! 142nd Anniversary of Picasso's Birth on November 14th: 50.00% Desa Unicum . St. Barbara's Day. Artists and Paintings of Upper Silesia on December 4th: 60.00% Bertolami Fine Art . 19th CENTURY, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART. 1st Part - From the 2nd half of the XIX Century to 1940' With German Expressionist Prints and Drawings on December 4th: 45.95% Heritage Auctions . Satisfaction: The Rolling Stones Treasures from the Ali Zayeri Collection Music Memorabilia Signature® Auction on December 8th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Pulp Magazine Select Auction on December 7th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Sunday Sports Collectibles Select Auction on December 7th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Fall U.S. Currency Showcase Auction on December 7th: 100.00% Heritage Auctions . Sunday Movie Posters Select Auction on December 7th: 99.73% Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books . Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper on December 6th: 92.00% Heritage Auctions . Star Wars Movie Posters Signature® Auction: The Doug Hott Collection on December 7th: 97.26% Heritage Auctions . The Dr. Richard Meli Collection Pulps Signature® Auction on December 6th: 100.00%
For the week ahead 82 sales are scheduled: Sun. Dec. 14th Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Sunday, Monday & Tuesday Comic Books Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Sunday Movie Posters Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Sunday Sports Collectibles Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Pulp Magazine Select Auction EV Stamps . Richmond. Stamps and Postal History Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters Showcase Auction Dirk Soulis Auctions . Lone Jack. Antique Caucasian Rugs and Modern Art, Session 1 Sydney Rare Book Auctions . Ultimo. Christmas 2025! - Decorative Arts And Design, Books, Fine Bindings And Geology Catawiki B. V. . LA Assen, . Dutch Literature and Illustrated Tessier & Sarrou and Associates . Paris. Online Sale - New Artists Mon. Dec. 15th Morphy Auctions . Denver. Online Only Postcards, Ephemera, & Advertising Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Rare Book Signature Auction Santa Fe Art Auction . Santa Fe. Etcetera Holiday Sale Aste Bolaffi . Turin. Asian Art Rossini . Paris. Interiors & Clasic Collections - Paintings, Works of Art, Asia, Weapons & Militaria, Instruments, Books & Manuscripts Catawiki B. V. . LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts Catawiki B. V. . LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) Freeman's | Hindman . Chicago. Art and Design, Online Ader . PARIS. Soviet Non-Conformist from the Former Anne-Marie Day Collection: Zveryev, Nemukhin, Playinsky, Chemiakine, Kropivnitsky, Rabine… Desa Unicum . Warszawa. Images of the Floating World. Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints KC Auction Company . Kansas City. Fairway Estate Auction Gorringes . Lewes. Weekly featuring Coins and Commemorative Medals Winter Associates . Plainville, CT . Chihuly & other Important Glass; 19th C. to Contemporary Paintings, Prints; 20th C. Sculpture in marble, bronze, wood etc. Damien Voglaire . Brussels. Christmas Sale Tue. Dec. 16th Sothebys . New York. Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana Swann Galleries . New York. Fine Photographs Rago Arts and Auctions . Chicago. Editions and Works on Paper Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Tuesday US Currency Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Tuesday Animation and Anime Art, Disneyana and Disneyland Select Auction Ader . PARIS. Exploration, Atlases and Cartographie of the 19th Century from the Geological Society of France Bonhams . Guildford. The Winter Automobilia Auction Sworders . Essex. Asian Art | Part Two Christies . New York. First Open | Post War and Contemporary Art Online New England Book Auctions . South Deerfield. Fine Books and Ephemera List Setdart . BARCELONA. Contemporary Art Tessier & Sarrou and Associates . Paris. Paintings, Furniture, and Works of Art Weiss Auctions . Lynbrook. December Stamps, Coins and Post Cards Freeman's | Hindman . Philadelphia. Asian Works of Art Desa Unicum . Warszawa. Polish School of Posters - Film William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals . Chadds Ford, PA . Fine and Decorative Arts Quarterly Dunbar Sloane . Wellington. Collectables & Estate Auction Wed. Dec. 17th Aste Bolaffi . Turin. Rare Books and Autographs Vermot de Pas . Paris. Modern and Contemporary Art - Paintings and Sculptures, Multiple Bonhams . London, New Bond Street. Travel and Exploration Sale Pierre Berge and Associes . Paris. Books, Manuscripts and Autographs #4 Doyle New York . New York. Rare Books, Autographs, and Maps Sothebys . New York. Important Judaica Sothebys . Paris. Bibioteca Brookeriana VIII Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Wednesday Comic Art and Animation Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Wednesday Trading Card Games Select Auction Bonhams . London, New Bond Street. Always Remember. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Christies . New York. Latin American Art Online Rago Arts and Auctions . Chicago. Rare Art Posters from a Private Collection Tessier & Sarrou and Associates . Paris. Movie Posters Trafford Books . Manchester. Trafford Book Sale Catawiki B. V. . LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts Catawiki B. V. . LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) Freeman's | Hindman . Philadelphia. Asian Art Online Ader . PARIS. Photographs Online Leland Little Auctions . Hillsborough, NC. December Estate Auction Neal Auction Company . New Orleans. 2025 Unreserved @ Neal Weiss Auctions . Lynbrook. December Vintage Trains Rago Arts and Auctions . Lambertville. Present Tense Dunbar Sloane . Wellington. Art Plus - Timed Auction Thu. Dec. 18th PBA Galleries . Berkeley. Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views Sothebys . New York. Swinging on a Star: The Collection of Bing & Kathryn Crosby RR Auction . Amherst. Marvels of Modern Music Finarte . Milan. Masters of Comic Art Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Japanese Trading Card Games Showcase Auction Bonhams . New York. Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana Ader . PARIS. Archaeology & Arts of Islam and India Desa Unicum . Warszawa. Christmas Last Minute - Illustration. Clars Auction Gallery . Oakland. Important Holiday Fine Art Sale Clars Auction Gallery . Oakland. The Estate of Senator Dianne Feinstein KC Auction Company . Kansas City. Military Yardlong Photos, Posters and More Auction Fri. Dec. 19th Clars Auction Gallery . Oakland. December Gallery Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Winter Sports Catalog Auction Du Mouchelles . Detroit. December 2025 Auction - Day 2 Robert Siegel Galleries . New York. The Magnolia Collection: Stamps and Postal History of Independent Mongolia Catawiki B. V. . LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) Sat. Dec. 20th Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books . Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper Clars Auction Gallery . Oakland. The Warehouse Auction Early American . Rancho Santa Fe. History Auction Catawiki B. V. . LA Assen, . Exclusive Maps Auction Du Mouchelles . Detroit. December 2025 Auction - Day 3 Sun. Dec. 21st Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Sunday, Monday & Tuesday Comic Books Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Sunday Movie Posters Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Sunday Sports Collectibles Select Auction Heritage Auctions . Dallas. Pulp Magazine Select Auction Catawiki B. V. . LA Assen, . Photography Books Auction Vermot de Pas . Paris. Ana And James Melikian Collection, Part I: Armenia, Ethiopia, Greece, Russia
Bruce McKinney
RBH and AE
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
