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Seven Auctions Archived, 18 upcoming this week

For the week ended Saturday, July 15th, 7 sales were archived to the Rare Book Hub Transaction Database; one denominated in euros, 1 in British pounds, and 5 in US dollars.  Turnover was a slim $952,230, not because there wasn’t activity but because we, at Rare Book Hub, are working shorter summer hours.  For this report 1,700 lots were offered and 1,535 sold for a 90% success rate.  We’ll be back to full schedule this week.

 

For the week ahead 18 auctions are scheduled.

 

5 sales this past week saw at least 80% of their lots sell: 

Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 7/2 on July 9th: 99.25% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 7/2 on July 9th: 97.06% 
Rossini. Engravings, etc. on July 4th: 88.89% 
Neal Auction Company. Summer Estates Auction on July 9th: 80.65% 
Holabird Kagin Americana. Great American July Auction - Session one: prints, books, ephemera on July 8th: 80.34% 


7 auctions were reported: 

Neal Auction Company. Summer Estates Auction on July 9th: 80.65% 
Holabird Kagin Americana. Great American July Auction - Session one: prints, books, ephemera on July 8th: 80.34% 
Neal Auction Company. Books, Prints on July 8th: 77.36% 
Rossini. Engravings, etc. on July 4th: 88.89% 
Bloomsbury Auctions. Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures on July 6th: 60.57% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 7/2 on July 9th: 97.06% 
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 7/2 on July 9th: 99.25% 
 
Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Bloomsbury Auctions Compendium of Canon Law, Homilies and religious treatises, partly copied by the scribe Nicolaos, manuscript in Greek, on paper, in a Greek-style binding perhaps made in Western Europe on July 6th Actual price: USD $87,978.
  2. Bloomsbury Auctions The Antonine Itinerary, with its additions for maritime travel and ports, decorated humanist manuscript, in Latin on paper on July 6th Actual price: USD $67,183.
  3. Bloomsbury Auctions Charlemagne's Admonitio Generalis, the Aachen capitulary of 789, single leaf from a decorated manuscript in Latin on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $57,586.
  4. Bloomsbury Auctions Juvenal, Satires I-XVI, in dactylic hexameter verse, with introductory hexameter to satires II, IV-VIII by Guarino da Verona, fine humanist manuscript in Latin on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $47,988.
  5. Bloomsbury Auctions The Master of the Montepulciano Gradual (formerly identified as the work of the Master of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas), a virgin saint being crowned at moment of execution, in a large historiated initial, on a leaf from the Sanctorale volume of a set of il on July 6th Actual price: USD $41,590.
  6. Bloomsbury Auctions The Hardouin Hours, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $36,791.
  7. Bloomsbury Auctions R ental Roll for the Christchurch ecclesiastical estate, Ipswich, large scroll in Latin with Middle English inscription on outside and occasional Middle English bynames, manuscript on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $28,793.
  8. Bloomsbury Auctions Single large leaf from a monumental Glagolitic Breviary, with part of the reading for the Feast of St. Apollonia, from a decorated manuscript on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $22,394.
  9. Bloomsbury Auctions Psalter, of Dominican Use, illuminated manuscript in Latin on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $14,396.
  10. Bloomsbury Auctions A Moroccan Dala'il al-Khayrat , in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper on July 6th Actual price: USD $11,997.
  11. Bloomsbury Auctions Leaf from a notably large and early copy of the Gospel of Matthew, in Armenian, on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $7,998.
  12. Bloomsbury Auctions Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa's Wrestlers, scene from the Bhagavata Purana , Indian miniature on card, probably Kangra school on July 6th Actual price: USD $7,358.
  13. Bloomsbury Auctions Monastic Rule of the Third Order of Franciscans, and various practical Offices, a Litany and an Office for Dead, decorated manuscript in Italian and Latin, on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $7,038.
  14. Bloomsbury Auctions Two Franciscans reading and bearing witness as God appears to them, in a large historiated initial on a leaf from an illuminated manuscript choir psalter on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $6,398.
  15. Bloomsbury Auctions The Prayerbook of Anna Catharina Karbanin of Wolschan, eastern border of Czech Republic, illuminated manuscript in German on paper and parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $6,398.
  16. Bloomsbury Auctions Augustine, Sermons , complete leaf and stub of its conjoint leaf within the bifolium, from a manuscript in Latin on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $6,398.
  17. Bloomsbury Auctions Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $5,599.
  18. Bloomsbury Auctions A Prince and Princess seated in a chamber with a hugga , illuminated Indian miniature on card, Kangra school on July 6th Actual price: USD $5,599.
  19. Bloomsbury Auctions Lord Krishna and the bathing Gopis, scene from the Bhagavata Purana, Indian miniature on paper, Kangra school on July 6th Actual price: USD $5,119.
  20. Heritage Auctions New Warriors #15 Cover Original Art on July 9th Actual price: USD $5,019.
  21. Neal Auction Company New Orleans Characters, on July 8th Actual price: USD $4,880.
  22. Bloomsbury Auctions The Rental book of Diethers von Ernberg , in German, manuscript on paper on July 6th Actual price: USD $4,799.
  23. Bloomsbury Auctions Two bifolia from an early Gradual, in Latin on parchment on July 6th Actual price: USD $4,639.
  24. Neal Auction Company Confederate Prisoner Autograph Album from Fort Warren, Dec. 5, 1861?April 5, 1862 on July 8th Actual price: USD $4,575.
  25. Bloomsbury Auctions Grant of Lord ‘Harsquy' of Cleseby of rights over woodland named “Scroges” near Ellerton, North Yorkshire, to Mahen of Wassingburn, with the right to ‘cut and carry at will' reserving only the common of pasture for Lord Harsculph, manuscript document in on July 6th Actual price: USD $4,479.


For the week ahead 18 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jul. 17th
Cowans Auctions. Cincinnati. Property from N. Flayderman & Co.: Online Timed Auction - Internet bidstart 7/6. 294 lots

Wed. Jul. 19th
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Printed Books, Maps and Documents. 551 lots
Trafford Books. Manchester. Books. 334 lots
Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions. Jerusalem. Holy books, letters from Rabbis and Rebbes, Judaica, Maps, Periodicals, Postcards, banknotes, Eretz. 331 lots
Sothebys. New York. Contemporary Living Online: Prints, Photographs and Design - Online bidstart 7/6. 160 lots

Thu. Jul. 20th
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Norwich. Fine Sale - Day 3: Books. 124 lots
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Gloucestershire. Children's and Illustrated Books, Modern Literature, and First Editions. 370 lots
Sothebys. New York. Space Exploration. 143 lots
Forum Auctions. London. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper. 72 lots
Charlton Hall. West Columbia, SC. Estate and Private Collections. 52 lots
Eldreds. East Dennis,. The Marine Sale - Books and Prints. 70 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Olympic Memorabilia - Internet bidstart 7/13. 38 lots
Leland Little Auctions. Hillsborough, NC. The Estate of the late Richard C. Siskey and Diane Siskey presented by Iron Horse Auction Co. and Le. 43 lots
Skinner. Marlborough. Country Americana - Pribnts. 24 lots

Fri. Jul. 21st
Brunk Auctions. Asheville, NC . July Sale - Day 1 - Books and Prints. 49 lots

Sat. Jul. 22nd
Brunk Auctions. Asheville, NC . July Sale - Day 2 - Books and Prints. 65 lots

Sun. Jul. 23rd
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 7/16.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 7/16.

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

  • Heritage, Nov. 18: Orson Welles. Signed Third Revised Final Draft for Citizen Kane (RKO, 1941). July 16, 1940.
    Heritage, Nov. 18: Bob Dylan. Autograph manuscript working lyrics to "Man on the Street."
    Heritage, Nov. 18: Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon. Inscribed by the author to the daughter of the Spanish Ambassador.
    Heritage, Nov. 18: Jack London. The Call of the Wild. Inscribed by the author.
    Heritage, Nov. 18: John Steinbeck. East of Eden. Inscribed by 27 members of the movie cast and crew, including James Dean and Elia Kazan.
  • Sotheby’s
    Nelson, His Life and His Navy:
    The Clive Richards Collection of Letters and Manuscripts
    November 18, 2026
    Sotheby’s
    Nelson, His Life and His Navy:
    The Clive Richards Collection of Letters and Manuscripts
    November 18, 2026
    Sotheby’s
    Nelson, His Life and His Navy:
    The Clive Richards Collection of Letters and Manuscripts
    November 18, 2026
  • Forum
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    Thursday 19th November
    Forum, Nov. 19: The ‘Saxe-Meiningen Psalter’, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern France or adjacent southern Netherlands, second half of the thirteenth century]. £30,000 - £50,000
    Forum, Nov. 19: Crescenzi (Bartolomeo). Nautica mediterranea, 2 parts in 1, second edition, with rare engraved folding map, Rome, Bartolomeo Bonfadino, 1607. £15,000 - £20,000
    Forum, Nov. 19: Aristotle. [The Works], 10 vol.,, translated by Thomas Taylor, Printed for the Translator... by Robert Wilks, 1807-12. £6,000-8,000
    Forum
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    Thursday 19th November
    Forum, Nov. 19: Turing (Alan).- Alan Turing's Slide Rule, engraved initials "A.M.T. Noli Hoc Furari", alongside other ephemera, housed in early 20th-century letter box, [mid.1920s-40s]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Nov. 19: Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus). I Dieci Libri dell'Architettura, translated by Daniele Barbaro, Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556. £7,000-10,000
    Forum, Nov. 19: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, hardback issue, first printing, Bloomsbury, 1997. £50,000-70,000
    Forum
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    Thursday 19th November
    Forum, Nov. 19: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, later impressions, each vol. signed by the author, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1957-58. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Nov. 19: Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, [1862]-73; plus a presentation copy of Gould's Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain (6). £35,000-45,000
    Forum, Nov. 19: Galilei (Galileo). Istoria e Dimostrazioni intorno alle Macchie Solari e loro accidenti, comprese in tre lettere scritte all’illustrissimo signor Marco Velseri Linceo, first edition, Rome, 1613. £15,000-20,000
    Forum
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    Thursday 19th November
    Forum, Nov. 19: Gersdorff (Hans von). Feldtbuch der Wund-Arzney, enlarged edition, Strassburg, Hans Schotten, 1540. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Nov. 19: Kitchin (Thomas). A New Universal Atlas, first edition with maps in full original hand-colouring, Printed and Published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1796. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Nov. 19: Cassas (Louis François). Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte, 2 vol., first edition, [Paris], 1799. £10,000-15,000
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 41. Rare First State of the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1595) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 63. The Largest of the Strada "Leo Belgicus" Editions (1632) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 71. Blaeu's Stunning Carte-a-Figures Map of the Americas (1640) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 8. Mariette's Rare and Decorative Map of the World Based on the Work of Hondius (1642) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 172. 1775 Edition of the Landmark Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia and Maryland (1775) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 46. Doppelmayr's Fine Celestial Chart (1742) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 212. First Edition Ski Country Map by Pioneer Hal Shelton (1965) Est. $500 - $700
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 732. Ruscelli's Complete Atlas with 69 Maps and Updated Maps of the Continents (1599) Est. $8,000 - $9,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 329. Ortelius' Map of Iceland Surrounded by Sea Monsters (1585) Est. $11,000 - $13,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 600. Heinrich Bunting's Rare Map of Asia in the Form of a Pegasus (1581) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 716. Bible Leaf with Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Magi (1490) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 23
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: L. Feininger, Collection of autograph letters to Alois J. Schardt, 1920-1955. Est: € 150,000-250,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: Flemish book of hours, Ghent-Bruges School around 1480-1500. Est: € 40,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: F. de Wit, Atlas maior, um 1700. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 23
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: A. Stieglitz, Camera Work, 48 volumes, 1903-1914. Est: € 60,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: M. Merian & M. Zeiller, Sämtliche Topographien, 21 volumes, 1642-1736. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: R. Indiana and R. Creely, Numbers, 1968. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 23
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: Salerno Breviarium, Latin manuscript on vellum, North Italy around 1470-1476. Est: € 40,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: M. S. Merian, Surinaamsche (&) europische Insecten, 1730. Est: € 30,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: M. Beckmann, Jahrmarkt, Portfolio of 10 signed etchings, 1922. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 23
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: Justinianus, Infortiatum, 1475. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: B. Besler, Hortus Eystettensis, um 1750. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer, Nov. 23: J. Gris and P. Reverdy, Au soleil du plafond, 1955. Est: € 3,000