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Auction Update Review

M-Rare Book Hub: 89 Auctions Archived, another 71 Upcoming this Week

 For the week ended 26 September, 89 auctions have been archived to Rare Book Hub’s Transactions+: 1 denominated in Swiss francs, 3 in Czeck korona, 19 in euros, 13 in British pounds, 1 in Mexican pesos, 50 in US dollars, and 2 in South African rand.

 

Turnover was $19,003,482.51. The average lot brought $1,582.17. 78.59% of all lots offered were sold.

 

This report includes this past week’s Top 25s for a dozen categories as well as a full listing of the coming week’s 71 auctions.

 

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Top 25 Lots Reported This Past Week.
  1. Heritage Auctions Pokemon Raichu 14 Unlimited Base Set Prerelease PSA Trading Card Game EX-MT 6 (Wizards of the Coast, 1999) Holo, Rare. on September 20th Actual price: USD $550,000.
  2. Sothebys Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) (F. & S. II.31) on September 24th Actual price: USD $509,238.
  3. Christies Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) ["Great Wave"] on September 25th Actual price: USD $508,000.
  4. Sothebys Totem on September 24th Actual price: USD $373,441.
  5. Sothebys Two Nudes, State I, from Nudes Series (C. 285) on September 24th Actual price: USD $271,593.
  6. Christies The Fertility Suite on September 25th Actual price: USD $271,593.
  7. RR Auction Albert Einstein Important Handwritten Manuscript: "The Essence of the Theory of Relativity" on September 20th Actual price: USD $250,000.
  8. RR Auction Sun Yat-sen Autograph Letter Signed, Signed Photograph, and Signed Book - Sun Sends His Manifesto of the Chinese Republic, Putting Forth His Nationalist Ideology: "China for the Chinese" on September 20th Actual price: USD $250,000.
  9. Christies Gaifu kaisei (Fine wind, clear weather) ["Red Fuji"] on September 25th Actual price: USD $228,600.
  10. Sothebys Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) (F. & S. II.29) on September 24th Actual price: USD $220,670.
  11. RR Auction Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Handwritten Musical Manuscript from the 'Antretter Serenade in D' on September 20th Actual price: USD $212,500.
  12. Heritage Auctions Pokemon 25th Anniversary Creatures Deck Sealed Box (The Pokemon Company, 2021). on September 20th Actual price: USD $200,000.
  13. RR Auction Celebrity Polaroid Collection of Over 7,500 Signed Candid Photographs on September 20th Actual price: USD $181,250.
  14. Sothebys Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) (F. & S. II.30) on September 24th Actual price: USD $161,259.
  15. Christies Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482) on September 25th Actual price: USD $161,259.
  16. Christies Eva Mudocci (After Munch) on September 25th Actual price: USD $152,771.
  17. Sothebys Smaller and Smaller (Bool 413) on September 24th Actual price: USD $144,284.
  18. Sothebys Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) (F. & S. II.28) on September 24th Actual price: USD $144,284.
  19. Christies Le repas frugal, from: La Suite des Saltimbanques on September 25th Actual price: USD $135,797.
  20. RR Auction Johann Sebastian Bach Document Signed as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas Church on September 20th Actual price: USD $125,000.
  21. Sothebys Annie Oakley, from Cowboys and Indians (see F. & S. IIB.378) on September 24th Actual price: USD $118,822.
  22. Christies Sanka hakuu (Storm below the summit) ["Black Fuji"] on September 25th Actual price: USD $114,300.
  23. Sothebys With Hat, from Ingrid Bergman (F. & S. II.315) on September 24th Actual price: USD $110,335.
  24. Christies Van Gogh Chair (Black) on September 25th Actual price: USD $101,848.
  25. Sothebys Mick Jagger (Feldman & Schellmann II.147) on September 24th Actual price: USD $93,360.

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  • <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> These are the Times that Try Men's Souls, Thomas Paine. $80,000-$120,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> Manuscrpit from Aboard The Discovery, Signed by George Vancouver. $80,000-$120,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> Exceedingly Rare Holograph Fragment of James Cook's Logbook. $80,000-$120,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Thomas Lechford: Important First-Hand Account of Life in New England. $40,000-$60,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> The First Expanded Edition of Common Sense, Thomas Paine. $30,000-$50,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Album of Exceptional California Lettersheets. $20,000-$30,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: An Exceptional Group of Gold Rush Letters, c. 1849-1850. $20,000-$30,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Mather's King Phillips War Tract 1639-1723. $15,000-$25,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: The First Contemporaneous Account of the Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather. $15,000-$25,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> Poor Richard's Almanack 1749, Benjamin Franklin. $15,000-$20,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Fruits of Mormonism by Nelson Slater. $15,000-$25,000 <b>Bonhams, Oct. 13-23:</b> California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin, Across the Plains in '49 by Emanuel Goughnour. $12,000-$18,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: These are the Times that Try Men's Souls, Thomas Paine. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Manuscrpit from Aboard The Discovery, Signed by George Vancouver. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Exceedingly Rare Holograph Fragment of James Cook's Logbook. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Thomas Lechford: Important First-Hand Account of Life in New England. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: The First Expanded Edition of Common Sense, Thomas Paine. $30,000-$50,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Album of Exceptional California Lettersheets. $20,000-$30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: An Exceptional Group of Gold Rush Letters, c. 1849-1850. $20,000-$30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Mather's King Phillips War Tract 1639-1723. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: The First Contemporaneous Account of the Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Poor Richard's Almanack 1749, Benjamin Franklin. $15,000-$20,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Fruits of Mormonism by Nelson Slater. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin, Across the Plains in '49 by Emanuel Goughnour. $12,000-$18,000
  • <center><b>Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair<br>17 and 18 Oct</b><center> <center><b>Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair<br>17 and 18 Oct</b><center> <center><b>Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair<br>17 and 18 Oct</b><center>
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>By a Lady<br>1-15 October 2025</b> <b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> Queen Elizabeth I. A queen’s defense of the realm, and the birth of the British Empire. $500,000 to $700,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000. <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: Queen Elizabeth I. A queen’s defense of the realm, and the birth of the British Empire. $500,000 to $700,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000.
    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.