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RBH Auction Report for Week ending May 8, 2026 (#40)
RBH Auction Report for Week ending May 8, 2026 (#40)Hammer PriceHeritage led the RBH top 25 auction results with 11 of their offerings on the list. Placing first was a1977 Luke Skywalker rookie card (Topps Star Wars - Series 1) graded PSA 10which sold for $687,500 on May 4. Also prominent on the list were University Archives with items from their May 6 sale of rare autographs, manuscripts and books and Swann Galleries with a variety of important signed photographs. See below for other highlights of the week.For the week ended May 8, a total of 58 auctions were archived to Rare Book Hub’s...
The Week at Auction Ending May 1, 2026
Looking back at auction sales last week in the books and paper collectibles field, the top prices were dominated by items from the Islamic World and India. That sounds a bit unusual, but there is...
The Week at Auction Ending April 24, 2026
The prior week's top items at auction sales in the field of books and collectible paper was for prints. The week before it was trading cards. This past week, it was nothing in particular....
The Week at Auction Ending April 17, 2026
Once again, the money was flowing at auction in the field of rare books, manuscripts, prints and other forms of collectible paper. The previous week, trading cards were the big sellers. The past...
The Week at Auction Ending April 10, 2026
by MikeWhen the Rare Book Hub was founded in 2003 (then known as Americana Exchange), its purpose was to provide auction prices for rare books and related works on paper. Books dominated the...
The Week at Auction Ending April 3, 2026
by MikeAt Rare Book Hub we track not only auction sales of rare books, but also of other forms of collectible paper, such as manuscripts, maps, comic books, prints, trading cards, and photographs....
The Week at Auction Ending March 27, 2026
A mighty wave crashed over the auction results for the week ending March 27 in the field of rare books, manuscripts, prints and other forms of collectible paper. Two of the three highest prices...
The Week at Auction Ending March 20, 2026
by Mike Auction results for the past week (ending March 20) looked much like the previous week, though on a reduced scale. Once again, the most expensive item was a scroll that ran through the...
The Week at Auction Ending March 13, 2026
By MikeThis past week at auction was unusual in terms of where the dollars flowed. The runaway winner by value was the sale with the fewest lots*. It was the Jim Irsay Collection sold at Christie's...
THE WEEK THAT WAS AT THE AUCTIONS ending March 6, 2026
By Hammer PriceThis week, Heritage dominated the big ticket auctions with antique baseball cards, comics, other sports items, gaming card collectibles, posters, entertainment and pop culture. In...
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Sotheby’s
Reason and Revolution:
Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection
Part I
Live Sale 20 OctoberSotheby’s, Oct. 20: Copernicus, Nicolaus. De revolutionibus orbium colestium, Nuremberg, 1543, first edition.Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Newton, Isaac, Sir. Autograph manuscript worksheet, Cambridge, probably May 1694.Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Euclid. Praeclarissimus Liber Elementorum in Artem Geometrie, Venice, Ratdolt, 25 May 1482, first edition of the first substantial mathematical work to appear in print, Durazzo copy.Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Galilei, Galileo. Sidereus nuncius …, Venice, 1610, first edition of the foundation of modern astronomy.Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Kepler, Johannes. Astronomia nova aitiologitos …, Prague or Heidelberg, 1609, first edition, contemporary vellum, the Chasles copy.Sotheby’s, Oct. 20: Cellarius, Andreas. Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus ..., Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1661, brilliantly handcolored. -
Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Bible, in English. Fine restoration binding in the style of the Queen’s binders.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Magnus Hundt, the elder. First edition of one of the earliest printed books with anatomical illustrations.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Agatha Christie. Cards on the Table. First edition.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and Damned. First edition, first printing.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. First edition, presentation copy.Heritage Auctions, Oct. 14: Bible, in English. Geneva-Tomson-Junius. London: Robert Barker, [colophon 1612]/1611. -
Gonnelli: Auction 72 Books, Autographs & Manuscripts October 6th-8th 2026 Gonnelli: Document bearing Napoleon's autograph signature. 1797. Starting bid € 900Gonnelli: Manuscript Libro de giustitiati nella città di Ferrara. 1441-1717. Starting bid € 9.000Gonnelli: Anonymous Jewish Siddur in Hebrew. Germany, 15th century. Starting bid € 1.200Gonnelli: Auction 72 Books, Autographs & Manuscripts October 6th-8th 2026 Gonnelli: Chagall, Drawings for the Bible. 1960 Starting bid € 1.200Gonnelli: Duchamp, Le Surrealisme en 1947. Starting bid € 2.600Gonnelli: Valturio, [De re militari]. 1483. Important provenance. Starting bid € 15.000Gonnelli: Auction 72 Books, Autographs & Manuscripts October 6th-8th 2026 Gonnelli: Ketham, Fasciculus medicine. 1500. Starting bid € 10.000Gonnelli: Ketham, Fasciculus medicie. 1522. Starting bid € 10.000Gonnelli: Kepler, Harmonices mundi libri V. 1619. Starting bid € 15.000Gonnelli: Auction 72 Books, Autographs & Manuscripts October 6th-8th 2026 Gonnelli: Kepler, Tabulae Rudolphinae. 1627. Starting bid € 8.000Gonnelli: Kondakov, ISTORIYA I PAMYATNIKI VIZANTIISKOI EMALI. [Histoire et monuments des emaux byzantins]. 1892. Starting price € 5.000Gonnelli: Strada, Imperatorum Romanorum. 1559. Starting bid € 12.000