Rare Book Monthly

Articles - December - 2025 Issue

MatchMaker Saves Time and avoids Missed Opportunities

MatchMaker Saves Time and avoids Missed Opportunities

 

Buying and Selling online has been quickly evolving.

 

These days the number of auctions continues to increase. Ninety a month is common. Recently on Rare Book Hub we were following 38 auctions completing on a single day. Identifying individual sales and relevant lots is easily done but because the number of auctions is overwhelming, it’s increasingly necessary to use software.

 

For Rare Book Hub members we provide MatchMaker in which you embed search terms that reflect your interests.  We then match them against the 2,000 to 5,000 new lots that are posted every day. Overnight, when we find matches, you get a single email telling you what we’ve found.

 

So how can you do this?

 

When logged in, look for MatchMaker on our primary toolbar.

 

Then add your first terms. By the next day you’ll have your first report.

 

After several weeks and numerous tweaks, you’ll understand how your collecting interests move through the market.

 

It all starts on the primary toolbar. Then click Matchmaker!

Rare Book Monthly

  • 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
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