eCatalogues on Rare Book Hub: Are they part of your future?
- by Bruce E. McKinney
eCatalogues are the future: Welcome!
eCatalogues on Rare Book Hub: Are they part of your future?
Rare Book Hub is used to follow the world-wide collectible paper auction market. As a sidebar, we now provide a side-by-side eCatalogue search for dealers, collectors and libraries. Why?
Because auctions have developed a very efficient model, that I believe dealers can learn from. Auctions live in a high-pressure world. If they accept saleable lots, describe and estimate them correctly they are virtually guaranteed to sell 80% of them. Those dealers who begin to post their eCatalogues with us will develop sufficient experience with eCatalogues to consider whether they might want to take the next step, to report sales as all auctions do. If so, we could then post and rank their sales by category, total dollars and percentage of lots sold. This would lead us to add a database of dealer offers and outcomes.
If you wish to start posting your eCatalogues, you simply need to be at least a 30-day visitor. You can post 1 eCatalogue. If a research member, you can post 2 a month. Octavo members can post weekly.
For listers who do not have a website, we provide a service we call Lynx (Lynx Connect).
If you have questions, you can reach me at bmckinney@rarebookhub.com or by phone (877) 323-7273 or (415) 823-6678.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today These are the Times that Try Men's Souls. Paine, Thomas. Sold for US$152,900.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today The First Printed Work on Political Economy. Sold for US$127,000.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today Signed Lincoln Photograph with Son Tad. Sold for US$76,700.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today First Expanded Edition of Common Sense. Paine, Thomas. Sold for US$76,700.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today Presentation Copy of Hemmingway's First Book. Sold for US$70,350.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today St. John's Gospel on Vellum, A Fragment in Greek, 5th Century. Sold for US$70,350.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today Only A Handful of Surviving Copies. Joyce, James. Ulysses. Sold for US$58,880.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today A Pivotal Step in Einstein's Development of General Relativity. Sold for US$51,200.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sold for US$56,320.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today Joyce's Annotated Typescript Draft for Finnegan's Wake. Sold for US$48,640.
Bonhams: Consign With Us Today One of 30 Pre-Publication Copies, Inscribed by Hemingway to Spencer Tracy, Who Played "The Old Man". Sold for US$83,050.
Sotheby’s Year in Review
Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
