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Auction Update Review

Rare Book Hub: 17 Auctions Archived, another 48 Upcoming this Week

For the week ended 23 June, 17 auctions were archived to Rare Book Hub’s Transactions+ database, 8 denominated in euros, 1 in British pounds, and 8 in US dollars.

 

 

Turnover was a slim $1,189,459.82 as 84.68% of all lots changed hands.  There were 2,356 offered and 1,995 transacted.  The average lot sold for $596.22.  It was a bargain hunter’s holiday! 

 

 

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

Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/2 on June 12th: 212.25%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700) - bidstart 6/2 on June 12th: 182.28%
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates. 43rd Semi-Annual Premier Americana Auction on June 17th: 167.97%
Forum Auctions. A fourth selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library on June 15th: 100.42%


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

Heritage Auctions. The Modern Props Science Fiction Collection Movie Posters Showcase Auction on June 17th: 99.80%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700) - bidstart 6/2 on June 12th: 98.81%
Potter and Potter Auctions. Summer Magic Auction on June 17th: 96.15%
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates. 43rd Semi-Annual Premier Americana Auction on June 17th: 95.12%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Movie Posters Select Auction - bidstart 6/11 on June 18th: 93.53%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper - bidstart 6/10 on June 17th: 92.50%
Holabird Kagin Americana. High Grade Sale - Phlatelics, Sports, and Numismatics on June 18th: 89.87%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/2 on June 12th: 86.67%
Blackwell Auctions. June Exceptional Estates Auction on June 17th: 84.62%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/2 on June 10th: 84.00%


Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Potter & Potter  Harry Houdini on June 17th Actual Price USD$45,600
  2. Forum Auctions Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme & Power of a Common-Wealth first issue on June 15th Actual price: USD $22,606.
  3. Forum Auctions Of the Russe Common Wealth on June 15th Actual price: USD $22,606.
  4. Forum Auctions The Description of a New World called The Blazing-World, on June 15th Actual price: USD $20,992.
  5. Holabird Kagin Americana De Groot Map of the Washoe Mines, Third Edition, Original, 1860 on June 17th Actual price: USD $15,000.
  6. Forum Auctions Poems and Phancies, on June 15th Actual price: USD $11,303.
  7. Forum Auctions The Anatomy of Melancholy on June 15th Actual price: USD $11,303.
  8. Catawiki B. V. Sonorama Photography Anthology [Complete Signed Collection. 27 Volumes] on June 11th Actual price: USD $11,059.
  9. Forum Auctions A Short Relation of a Long Journey, Made round or ovall By encompassing the Principalitie of Wales Performed by the Riding, Going, Crawling, Running, and Writing of John Taylor on June 15th Actual price: USD $10,496.
  10. Forum Auctions Mirabile Pecci: or, The Non-Such Wonder of the Peak in Darby shire discovered, on June 15th Actual price: USD $8,881.
  11. Forum Auctions A true and exact Relation Of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex on June 15th Actual price: USD $8,881.
  12. Forum Auctions The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the praecepts of Logike by the practise of the common Lawe on June 15th Actual price: USD $7,751.
  13. Forum Auctions An Advertisement to the Jury-Men of England, Touching Witches, on June 15th Actual price: USD $6,136.
  14. Forum Auctions The Six Bookes of a Commonwealth on June 15th Actual price: USD $6,136.
  15. Forum Auctions The Twoo Bookes...Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane on June 15th Actual price: USD $6,136.
  16. Forum Auctions The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemount. Conteinyng many excellent Remedies agaynst dyvers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes...Distillations, Parfumes, Confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and Meltynges on June 15th Actual price: USD $6,136.
  17. Heritage Auctions Godzilla (Trans World, 1956). Folded, Very Fine. Insert (14" X 36"). on June 17th Actual price: USD $6,000.
  18. Forum Auctions The Geomancie...wherin is annexed the wheele of Pythagoras, translated from the French by Francis Sparry, on June 15th Actual price: USD $5,813.
  19. Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Karl Bodmer - A Skin Lodge Of An Assiniboin Chief. 16 on June 17th Actual price: USD $5,665.
  20. Forum Auctions The Present State of the Morea, called Anciently Peloponnesus, third edition, on June 15th Actual price: USD $5,652.
  21. Forum Auctions Pyrotechnia or, A discourse of artificiall fire-works: in which the true grounds of that art are plainly and perspicuously laid downe, 2 parts in 1 vol. on June 15th Actual price: USD $5,652.
  22. Forum Auctions The Union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancaster & Yorke, beying long in continuall discension for the croune of this noble realme ... , [by Richard Grafton] on June 15th Actual price: USD $5,652.
  23. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates VIRGINIA CONFEDERATE (C.S.A.) DR. JOHN SCOTT DEYERLE (1835-1890) ARCHIVES on June 17th Actual price: USD $5,313.
  24. Forum Auctions Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places on June 15th Actual price: USD $5,167.
  25. Heritage Auctions Son of Frankenstein (Milli Film, R-1950s). Very Fine+ on Linen. Turkish One Sheet (27.75 X 39.5") Mahmut Yagci Artwork. on June 17th Actual price: USD $5,040.
  26. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates DR. JAMES H. N. WARING (1861-1923) BALTIMORE, MARYLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL EPHEMERA / SCRAPBOOK ARCHIVE on June 17th Actual price: USD $5,000.



16 total sales reported this week:

Potter and Potter Auctions. Summer Magic Auction on June 17th: 96.15%
Holabird Kagin Americana. High Grade Sale - Phlatelics, Sports, and Numismatics on June 18th: 89.87%
Heritage Auctions. Sunday Movie Posters Select Auction - bidstart 6/11 on June 18th: 93.53%
Holabird Kagin Americana. High Grade Sale - Native Americana, Mining and Ingots, Bottles on June 17th: 64.79%
Blackwell Auctions. June Exceptional Estates Auction on June 17th: 84.62%
Heritage Auctions. The Modern Props Science Fiction Collection Movie Posters Showcase Auction on June 17th: 99.80%
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates. 43rd Semi-Annual Premier Americana Auction on June 17th: 95.12%
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper - bidstart 6/10 on June 17th: 92.50%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1600) - bidstart 6/2 on June 13th: 71.43%
Catawiki B. V.. Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700) - bidstart 6/2 on June 12th: 98.81%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/2 on June 12th: 86.67%
Catawiki B. V.. Exclusive Cartography Auction - bidstart 6/2 on June 11th: 47.73%
Catawiki B. V.. Exclusive Books and Maps Auction - bidstart 6/2 on June 11th: 75.00%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/2 on June 11th: 26.76%
Catawiki B. V.. Art and Photography Books - bidstart 6/2 on June 11th: 37.50%
Catawiki B. V.. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/2 on June 10th: 84.00%
Forum Auctions. A fourth selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library on June 15th: 75.15%


For the week ahead 44 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Jun. 26th
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Chicago. Sports Memorabilia. 392 lots
Bertolami Fine Art . Rome. PRINTS, RARE BOOKS AND MAPS Including a large selection of Views of Rome: prints and drawings from 1. 497 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/16. 45 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700) - bidstart 6/16. 88 lots

Tue. Jun. 27th
Bonhams. London. Prints and Multiples. 93 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday US Currency Select Auction - bidstart 6/20. 421 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction - bidstart 6/20. 141 lots
De Baecque and Associes. Lyon. Autographs and Manuscripts - Old and Modern Books. 300 lots
Vermot de Pas. Paris. Autographs and Collection - 100% Live Sale.
New England Book Auctions. South Deerfield. Early Printing Americana Cartography Catalogue. 198 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700) - bidstart 6/16. 42 lots
Bonhams. London. Greetings from Marc Chagall: A Collection of Cards and Exhibition Posters - bidstart 6/19. 56 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern Art and Design - Prints. 54 lots
Eldreds. East Dennis,. Online Only - Asian Art. 22 lots
Kedem Auctions Ltd.. Jerusalem . Rebbes of Satmar, Sighet and Bobov - Books, Objects, Letters and Manuscripts, Broadsides and Printed.
Tessier & Sarrou and Associates. Paris. Online Sale - Posters.

Wed. Jun. 28th
Koller Auctions. Zurich. Prints and Multiples - Online Only.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Wednesday Comic Art and Animation Select Auction - bidstart 6/21. 381 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Wednesday Trading Card Games Select Auction - bidstart 6/21. 122 lots
Chiswick Auctions. London. Modern and Contemporary Prints and Multiples. 323 lots
University Archives. Wilton. Rare Autographs, Photographs, Books, PLUS PSA Slabbed. 388 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1600) - bidstart 6/16. 25 lots
Blackwell Auctions. Clearwater. Collectibles Countdown Auction. 150 lots

Thu. Jun. 29th
Koller Auctions. Zurich. Photography - Online Only.
Sothebys. Cologne. Prints and Multiples. 35 lots
PBA Galleries. Berkeley. Elite Americana – Travel – Maps – Audubon: A PBA Platinum Auction. 113 lots
Forum Auctions. London. Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper. 356 lots
Ader. PARIS. Post-war and Contemporary Prints. 236 lots
Du Mouchelles. Detroit. The June 2023 Auctions - Day 1. 40 lots
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Doug's Dell & Gold Key Comics & Comic Art Showcase Auction. 334 lots
Dreweatts. Newbury. Space Exploration Photography and Ephemera. 333 lots
Eldreds. East Dennis,. Vintage Goods.
Lark Mason Associates. New Braunfels. Paintings, Prints and other Fine and Decorative Works of Art - bidstart 6/15.
Nate D. Sanders Auctions. Los Angeles. Story Musgrave Auction.
Sloane Street Auctions. London. The Important Summer Sale - Including Old Master Drawings, Paintings, Silver and Ceramics.

Fri. Jun. 30th
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Cincinnati. American Historical Ephemera and Photography - Online.
Du Mouchelles. Detroit. The June 2023 Auctions - Day 2. 69 lots
Bonhams. London. Midwifery and Medicine: the Library of the late Prof. John Studd - bidstart 6/21.

Sat. Jul. 1st
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books. Franklin. Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper - bidstart 6/24. 200 lots
Early American. Rancho Santa Fe. Early American Auction.
EV Stamps. Richmond. Monthly Sports Cards and Comic Books Auction.
Ripley Auctions. Indianapolis. Summer Great Estates Modern Art and Design. 100 lots
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/23. 22 lots

Sun. Jul. 2nd
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday, Monday & Tuesday Comic Books Select Auction.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Movie Posters Select Auction.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Sunday Sports Collectibles Select Auction. 248 lots
Schilb Antiquarian. Columbia. Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium.
Catawiki B. V.. LA Assen, . Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 6/23. 26 lots

Bruce McKinney

RBH and AE

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  • <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
  • <b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>2 October<br>Beatrix Potter:<br>The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster</center></b> <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). <i>The Tale of Peter Rabbit,</i> 1st privately printed edition, 1901. £40,000-£60,000. <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). <i>Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea.</i> £7,000-£10,000. <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). A pair of original illustrations from <i>The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.</i> £8,000-£12,000. <b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>2 October<br>Beatrix Potter:<br>The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster</center></b> <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). <i>A Happy Pair,</i> 1st [and only] edition, 1890. £5,000-£8,000. <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920. £3,000-£5,000. <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). <i>The Fairy Caravan,</i> 1st (autographed limited) edition, 1929. £2,000-£3,000. <b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>2 October<br>Beatrix Potter:<br>The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster</center></b> <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). <i>The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin,</i> 1st edition, 1903, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £1,500-£2,000. <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). <i>The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher,</i> 1st deluxe edition, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £3,000-£5,000. <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). <i>The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin,</i> 1st deluxe edition, 1903, rare trial binding. £2,000-£3,000. <b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>2 October<br>Beatrix Potter:<br>The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster</center></b> <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). <i>The Tailor of Gloucester,</i> 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000. <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 26 October 1936. £2,000-£3,000. <b>Dominic Winter, Oct. 2:</b> Potter (Beatrix). Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card, 1938. £1,500-£2,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, 1901. £40,000-£60,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea. £7,000-£10,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). A pair of original illustrations from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. £8,000-£12,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). A Happy Pair, 1st [and only] edition, 1890. £5,000-£8,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, 1st (autographed limited) edition, 1929. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 1903, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £1,500-£2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st deluxe edition, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st deluxe edition, 1903, rare trial binding. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 26 October 1936. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card, 1938. £1,500-£2,000.
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>By a Lady<br>1-15 October 2025</b> <b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.
    Sotheby’s
    By a Lady
    1-15 October 2025
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.