Auction Update Review

Rare Book Hub: 48 Auctions Archived, another 48 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended Friday, 25 November 2022, 48 auctions were archived to Rare Book Hub’s Transactions+ database, 2 denominated in Australian dollars, 1 in Danish krone, 11 in euros, 6 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, 26 in US dollars, and 1 in South African rands.

Turnover this past week was $51,105,914.84 as 82.86% of all lots changed hands.  There were 16,684 offered and 13,825 changed hands.  The average lot sold for $3,696.63.

Be well through these uncertain times.

 

6 auctions saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars:

Heritage AuctionsComics and Comic Art Signature Auction on November 17th: $18,589,015
Heritage AuctionsFall Sports Catalogue Auction on November 19th: $16,353,449
SothebysThe John Golden Library: Book Illustration in the Age of Scientific Discovery on November 22nd: $2,253,762
ChristiesRare Books and Manuscripts - bidstart 11/9 on November 21st: $2,207,573
Heritage AuctionsMovie Posters Signature Auction on November 20th: $2,016,012
Kedem Auctions Ltd.Rare and Important Items on November 22nd: $1,825,500

 


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

Bearnes Hampton and LittlewoodSporting and Collectors' Sale on November 23rd: 202.94%
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates43rd Semi-Annual Premier Americana Auction - Day 3 on November 19th: 149.68%
Gonnelli Casa DAsteBooks, Autographs, and Manuscripts on October 12th: 140.97%
Il PontePrints, Multiples and Modern Art on November 24th: 123.71%
Tennants AuctioneersBooks, Maps and Manuscripts on November 23rd: 117.55%
Damien VoglaireModern and Contemporary Art on November 19th: 117.19%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions19th and 20th Century Photography, Cameras and Accessories on November 24th: 116.28%
Neal Auction CompanyLouisiana Purchase Auction - Day 2 on November 19th: 112.33%
Heritage AuctionsTuesday US Currency Select Auction - bidstart 11/15 on November 22nd: 101.49%
Kedem Auctions Ltd.Rare and Important Items on November 22nd: 100.58%
BonhamsPrints and Multiples on November 23rd: 100.08%


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

Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates43rd Semi-Annual Premier Americana Auction - Day 3 on November 19th: 100.00%
Heritage AuctionsTuesday US Currency Select Auction - bidstart 11/15 on November 22nd: 100.00%
Heritage AuctionsTuesday World Paper Money Select Auction - bidstart 11/15 on November 22nd: 100.00%
Heritage AuctionsWednesday Comic Art and Animation Select Auction - bidstart 11/16 on November 23rd: 100.00%
BonhamsScott of the Antarctic - An Heroic Farewell on November 22nd: 100.00%
Heritage AuctionsWednesday Trading Card Games Select Auction - bidstart 11/16 on November 23rd: 100.00%
Heritage AuctionsA Century of Greatness: George Burke, Charles Conlon and the Legends of Baseball, A Photography Arc on November 18th: 100.00%
Heritage AuctionsComics and Comic Art Signature Auction on November 17th: 99.72%
Heritage AuctionsSunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction - bidstart 11/13 on November 21st: 99.46%
Neal Auction CompanyLouisiana Purchase Auction - Day 2 on November 19th: 98.94%
Heritage AuctionsFall Sports Catalogue Auction on November 19th: 96.90%
Heritage AuctionsSunday Sports Collectibles Select Auction - bidstart 11/6 on November 20th: 96.48%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare BooksFine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper - bidstart 11/12 on November 19th: 95.50%
Schilb AntiquarianRare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium on November 20th: 95.50%
Heritage AuctionsHirschfeld Celebrity Autograph Charity Auction to Benefit Broadway Cares and The Al Hirschfeld Found on November 20th: 95.24%
Kedem Auctions Ltd.Rare and Important Items on November 22nd: 95.07%
New England AuctionsTravel & Exploration, Hunting & Fishing Books & Ephemera Catalog on November 22nd: 95.00%
Revere AuctionsDwell in Beauty on November 18th: 94.74%
Heritage AuctionsMovie Posters Signature Auction on November 20th: 94.73%
Purcell AuctioneersAuction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, Journa on November 23rd: 92.53%
Tennants AuctioneersBooks, Maps and Manuscripts on November 23rd: 90.24%
SothebysThe John Golden Library: Book Illustration in the Age of Scientific Discovery on November 22nd: 88.00%
Australian Book AuctionsAustralian Book Auction on November 23rd: 87.32%
Bruun RasmussenModern Art and Design - Prints on November 22nd: 86.89%
Ashcroft and MooreThe Last Gotham Gorey Sale on November 21st: 86.25%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions19th and 20th Century Photography, Cameras and Accessories on November 24th: 85.45%
Damien VoglaireModern and Contemporary Art on November 19th: 84.38%
Forum AuctionsOnline Sale: Books and Works on Paper on November 22nd: 84.29%
Gonnelli Casa DAsteBooks, Autographs, and Manuscripts on October 12th: 81.30%
Il PontePrints, Multiples and Modern Art on November 24th: 80.47%

Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Heritage Auctions 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 PSA NM-MT 8. on November 19th Actual price: USD $1,470,000.
  2. Heritage Auctions 2003 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection LeBron James (Exquisite Rookie Patch Autographs-Level 1, Jersey Number) #78 BGS NM-MT+ 8.5, Auto 10 - #'d 18/23. on November 19th Actual price: USD $885,000.
  3. Heritage Auctions 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady (Championship Ticket) Rookie #144 BGS NM-MT+ 8.5, Auto 10 - #'d 67/100. on November 19th Actual price: USD $750,000.
  4. Heritage Auctions 1954 Topps Hank Aaron Rookie #128 PSA Mint 9--Only Two Superior! on November 19th Actual price: USD $615,000.
  5. Heritage Auctions Amazing Fantasy #15 Biljo White Copy (Marvel, 1962) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. on November 17th Actual price: USD $552,000.
  6. Bonhams SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC AN HEROIC FAREWELL: The highly important farewell autograph letter signed ("R. Scott"), to Sir Edgar Speyer ("My dear Sir Edgar"), "Lat 79.50S. March 16", [1912] on November 22nd Actual price: USD $486,519.
  7. Heritage Auctions Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Comic Strip Original Art dated 5-24-87 (Universal Press Syndicate, 1987). on November 17th Actual price: USD $480,000.
  8. Heritage Auctions 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 PSA NM 7. on November 19th Actual price: USD $468,000.
  9. Heritage Auctions 1955 Topps Sandy Koufax Rookie #123 PSA Mint 9. on November 19th Actual price: USD $396,000.
  10. Christies Lettres de A. Dettonville contenant quelques-unes de ses Inventions de Geometrie. on November 21st Actual price: USD $389,343.
  11. Heritage Auctions The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. on November 17th Actual price: USD $336,000.
  12. Heritage Auctions 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #144 PSA NM-MT 8 - Five Superior! on November 19th Actual price: USD $336,000.
  13. Heritage Auctions Detective Comics #168 (DC, 1951) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. on November 17th Actual price: USD $324,000.
  14. Heritage Auctions 1951 Bowman Baseball PSA Graded Complete Set (324) - #8 on PSA Set Registry - All Cards PSA NM 7 or Higher! on November 19th Actual price: USD $312,000.
  15. Sothebys The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.  on November 22nd Actual price: USD $289,800.
  16. Heritage Auctions Superman #1 (DC, 1939) CGC GD- 1.8 Cream to off-white pages. on November 17th Actual price: USD $288,000.
  17. Heritage Auctions Captain America Comics #1 Larson Pedigree (Timely, 1941) CGC Conserved NM- 9.2 White pages. on November 17th Actual price: USD $276,000.
  18. Heritage Auctions Fantastic Four #1 (Marvel, 1961) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. on November 17th Actual price: USD $234,000.
  19. Heritage Auctions 1993 Upper Deck SP Derek Jeter Rookie #279 PSA Gem Mint 10. on November 19th Actual price: USD $228,000.
  20. Heritage Auctions Marvel Comics #1 (Timely, 1939) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Cream to off-white pages. on November 17th Actual price: USD $223,200.
  21. Heritage Auctions 1963 Topps Hank Aaron #390 PSA Gem Mint 10 - Pop One! on November 19th Actual price: USD $222,000.
  22. Heritage Auctions 1909-11 T206 Lenox-Brown Ty Cobb (Bat Off Shoulder) PSA Good+ 2.5--Newly Discovered Finest PSA-Graded Example. on November 19th Actual price: USD $222,000.
  23. Heritage Auctions 1909 Ty Cobb Stealing Third Original Photograph by Charles Conlon, PSA/DNA Type 1. on November 19th Actual price: USD $204,000.
  24. Heritage Auctions 1952 Topps Jackie Robinson #312 PSA NM-MT 8. on November 19th Actual price: USD $198,000.
  25. Heritage Auctions Fantastic Four #49 (Marvel, 1966) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. on November 17th Actual price: USD $192,000.

 

48 total sales reported this week:

Old World Auctions. Maps and Atlases - bidstart 11/2 on November 16th: 78.73%
Il Ponte. Prints, Multiples and Modern Art on November 24th: 80.47%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. 19th and 20th Century Photography, Cameras and Accessories on November 24th: 85.45%
Chiswick Auctions. 19th and 20th Century Photographs on November 24th: 53.95%
Tennants Auctioneers. Books, Maps and Manuscripts on November 23rd: 90.24%
Purcell Auctioneers. Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, Journa on November 23rd: 92.53%
Bonhams. Scott of the Antarctic - An Heroic Farewell on November 22nd: 100.00%
Bonhams. Prints and Multiples on November 23rd: 77.93%
Heritage Auctions. Wednesday Trading Card Games Select Auction - bidstart 11/16 on November 23rd: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Wednesday Comic Art and Animation Select Auction - bidstart 11/16 on November 23rd: 100.00%
Australian Book Auctions. Australian Book Auction on November 23rd: 87.32%
ALDE. Original Editions XIXth and XXth century on November 23rd: 70.79%
Stephan Welz & Co.. Johannesburg Premium Auction on November 24th: 57.84%
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood. Sporting and Collectors' Sale on November 23rd: 53.25%
Sothebys. The John Golden Library: Book Illustration in the Age of Scientific Discovery on November 22nd: 88.00%
New England Auctions. Travel & Exploration, Hunting & Fishing Books & Ephemera Catalog on November 22nd: 95.00%
Kedem Auctions Ltd.. Rare and Important Items on November 22nd: 95.07%
Forum Auctions. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper on November 22nd: 84.29%
Christies. A Graphic Century including French Impressions: Prints from Ambroise Vollard and Henri M. Petiet on November 22nd: 79.31%
Bruun Rasmussen. Modern Art and Design - Prints on November 22nd: 86.89%
Bertolami Fine Art . Ancient and Modern Prints, Geographical Maps on November 22nd: 27.21%
Vermot de Pas. HISTORY AND REGIONS OF FRANCE: MANUSCRIPTS, DOCUMENTS, MAPS, PRINTS, ARCHIVES, PLACARDS - LIVE SALE on November 21st: 17.94%
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. American Historical Ephemera and Photography - bidstart 11/11 on November 21st: 71.18%
Christies. Rare Books and Manuscripts - bidstart 11/9 on November 21st: 69.03%
Ashcroft and Moore. The Last Gotham Gorey Sale on November 21st: 86.25%
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates. Posters on November 22nd: 56.16%
Arader Galleries. November Auction on November 19th: 47.88%
Gonnelli Casa DAste. Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts on October 12th: 81.30%
Heritage Auctions. Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction - bidstart 11/15 on November 22nd: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Tuesday US Currency Select Auction - bidstart 11/15 on November 22nd: 100.00%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction - bidstart 11/13 on November 21st: 99.46%
Heritage Auctions. A Century of Greatness: George Burke, Charles Conlon and the Legends of Baseball, A Photography Arc on November 18th: 100.00%
Schilb Antiquarian. Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium on November 20th: 95.50%
Neal Auction Company. Louisiana Purchase Auction - Day 2 on November 19th: 98.94%
Morton Subastas. Opportunity Auction on November 19th: 36.00%
Michaans Auctions. November Gallery Auction on November 19th: 42.67%
Marc van de Wiele Auctions. Modern Art and Book Auction on November 19th: 71.38%
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates. 43rd Semi-Annual Premier Americana Auction - Day 3 on November 19th: 100.00%
Damien Voglaire. Modern and Contemporary Art on November 19th: 84.38%
Sydney Rare Book Auctions. Dustjackets to die for and posters to decorate your life 88 on November 18th: 46.88%
Revere Auctions. Dwell in Beauty on November 18th: 94.74%
Du Mouchelles. The November Auctions: Day 2 on November 18th: 74.22%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper - bidstart 11/12 on November 19th: 95.50%
Heritage Auctions. Hirschfeld Celebrity Autograph Charity Auction to Benefit Broadway Cares and The Al Hirschfeld Found on November 20th: 95.24%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Sports Collectibles Select Auction - bidstart 11/6 on November 20th: 96.48%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters Signature Auction on November 20th: 94.73%
Heritage Auctions. Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction on November 17th: 99.72%
Heritage Auctions. Fall Sports Catalogue Auction on November 19th: 96.90%

 


For the week ahead 48 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Nov. 28th
Ketterer Kunst Doerling. Hamburg. Rare Books. 350 lots
Adams Amsterdam Auctions. Amsterdam. NRC Auctions. 135 lots

Tue. Nov. 29th
Artcurial. Paris. Limited Editions. 130 lots
ALDE. Paris. Original Bindings & Modern Illustrated Books. 266 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday US Currency Select Auction - bidstart 11/22. 426 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction - bidstart 11/22. 157 lots
Sothebys. London. The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Earl of Fairhaven, Part II. 264 lots
Gonnelli Casa DAste. Firenze. Ancient, modern and contemporary art. 501 lots
International Autograph Auctions Europe SL. Malaga. Autographs, Letters and Manuscripts - Two Day Sale. 650 lots
Canada Book Auctions Limited. Toronto. Important Birds Books from a Private Collection. 124 lots
Morton Subastas. México DF CP 11000. Ancient and Contemporary Books Auction. 400 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern Art and Design - Prints. 67 lots
Waverly Auctions. Falls Church. Quinns Rare Books, Prints and Autographs. 447 lots

Wed. Nov. 30th
Zisska and Lacher. Munich. Books and Art. 1805 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Wednesday Comic Art and Animation Select Auction - bidstart 11/23. 402 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Wednesday Trading Card Games Select Auction - bidstart 11/23. 115 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Texana. 86 lots
Canada Book Auctions Limited. Toronto. Art Reference, Decorative Arts and Photography Books. 68 lots
International Autograph Auctions Europe SL. Malaga. Autographs, Letters and Manuscripts - Two Day Sale - Day 2. 650 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Books From Valdemar's Castle. 50 lots
Sloane Street Auctions. London. The Winter Fine Art, Old Masters, Antiques, and Antiquarian Books Sale Including the Contents of the. 245 lots
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Prints from the 15th to 19th Centuries. 720 lots

Thu. Dec. 1st
Koller Auctions. Zurich. Prints and Multiples. 85 lots
AntiquarianAuctions.com. Constantia. Antiquarian Books - bidstart 11/24. 472 lots
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Ancient and Modern Books. 505 lots
Artcurial. Paris. Comic Strips Online - bidstart 11/25. 182 lots
Bonhams. Los Angeles. Space Photography Online - bidstart 11/22. 139 lots
Forum Auctions. London. Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper. 446 lots
PBA Galleries. Berkeley. Fine Literature with Beats, Bukowski and the Counterculture. 489 lots
Potter and Potter Auctions. Chicago. Fine and Outsider Art. 115 lots
Tajan. Paris. Prints. 142 lots
Gonnelli Casa DAste. Firenze. Photographs. 200 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Fox Comics Showcase Auction. 173 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Historical Platinum Session. 46 lots
Nye & Company Auctioneers. Bloomfield. Discovery Auction.
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Drawn on Paper - Engraved in Copper. 41 lots

Fri. Dec. 2nd
Binoche et Giquello. rue La Boetie, Paris. Ancient Books. 93 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Trading Card Games. 241 lots
Galerie Bassenge. Berlin-Grunewald . Graphics and Multiples. 237 lots

Sat. Dec. 3rd
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper - bidstart 11/26. 200 lots
Leland Little Auctions. Hillsborough, NC. Signature Winter Auction. 47 lots
Holabird Kagin Americana. Reno. SS Central America Shipwreck Artifacts Auction, Part I. 250 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. The Seeley Family Presidential Christmas Collection Americana & Political. 208 lots
Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers. Gahanna. Important Numismatic Literature. 454 lots

Sun. Dec. 4th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction - bidstart 11/28.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Movie Posters Select Auction - bidstart 11/27.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Sports Collectibles Select Auction - bidstart 11/20. 298 lots
Schilb Antiquarian. Columbia. Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium. 111 lots

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000