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Auction Update Review

M-Rare Book Hub: 74 Auctions Archived, another 55 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended 26 January, 74 auctions have been archived to Rare Book Hub’s Transactions+: 17 denominated in euros, 11 in British pounds, 2 in Mexican pesos, 1 in Polish zloty, 41 in U.S. dollars, and 2 in South African rand.

 

 

 

Turnover was $43,377,186.65. The average lot brought $4,835.35. Ten thousand six hundred and forty-two lots found new homes. For the week, 84.28% of all lots offered were sold.

 

 

 

This report includes this past week’s Top 25s for 14 categories, full details for the past week’s sales, as well as a full listing of the upcoming week’s 55 sales.

 

 

 

 

Start by clicking on the tabs for the Top 25s. They are live!

Best wishes for a good week!

 

 

 

 

Bruce McKinney


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Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Christies We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, on January 23rd Actual price: USD $7,395,000.
  2. Christies The "Authorized Edition" of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 23rd Actual price: USD $6,785,000.
  3. Christies THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE on January 23rd Actual price: USD $5,687,000.
  4. Christies THE APPLE COMPUTER COMPANY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT on January 23rd Actual price: USD $2,515,000.
  5. RR Auction Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Historic Signed 1976 Apple Computer Check (No. 1) to Howard Cantin, Designer of the Apple-1 Printed Circuit Board - PSA MINT 9 on January 29th Actual price: USD $2,409,886.
  6. Sothebys An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of three of the most consequential figures of the American Revolution: George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin on January 27th Actual price: USD $1,016,000.
  7. RR Auction Steve Jobs: March 1976 Wells Fargo Account Statement for Apple Computer Co. - Apple's First Financial Record on January 29th Actual price: USD $828,569.
  8. RR Auction Steve Jobs's Personally-Owned 1977 Apple Computer Inc. Poster, Which Hung in His Family's Living Room on January 29th Actual price: USD $659,900.
  9. Christies THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION on January 23rd Actual price: USD $584,200.
  10. Freeman's | Hindman Manuscript Document, signed on January 29th Actual price: USD $563,200.
  11. Freeman's | Hindman [Daguerreotype] The 75 Cent Studio on September 27th Actual price: USD $563,200.
  12. Christies A LARGE, THREE-SHEET CAMPAIGN BROADSIDE FOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ANDREW JOHNSON on January 23rd Actual price: USD $508,000.
  13. Christies THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE on January 23rd Actual price: USD $431,800.
  14. Sothebys The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights on January 27th Actual price: USD $406,400.
  15. Freeman's | Hindman Autograph Letter, signed on January 29th Actual price: USD $371,200.
  16. Sothebys Bushrod Washington's Federalist, praised by George Washington as a "work [that] will merit the notice of Posterity" on January 27th Actual price: USD $317,500.
  17. Sothebys The President thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." on January 27th Actual price: USD $241,300.
  18. Christies THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE on January 23rd Actual price: USD $241,300.
  19. Sothebys The commander in chief orders that Redcoat prisoners be treated "with humanity, and Let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the Brittish Army" on January 27th Actual price: USD $215,900.
  20. Sothebys The President's letter to John Key---sent just four days after he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on January 27th Actual price: USD $203,200.
  21. Christies The Federalist Papers on January 23rd Actual price: USD $203,200.
  22. Sothebys The General History of Virginia... 1624 on January 27th Actual price: USD $190,500.
  23. Christies THE LOUISIANA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION on January 23rd Actual price: USD $190,500.
  24. Christies Describing the Beginning of the California Gold Rush on January 23rd Actual price: USD $165,100.
  25. Christies United States Overland Stage starting for Denver from Hays City, 289 miles west of Missouri River, from Scenes in the Indian Country, 1867 on January 23rd Actual price: USD $152,400.
  • <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500 <b>Old World Auctions (Feb 11):</b><br>Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000