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Auction Update Review

2013: Busy Unto The Last Day

 

 

 

For the week ended Saturday December 28th 22 auctions were archived to the AED; 9 in euros, 1 in British pounds, and 12 in US dollars.  Turnover was $7,722,166 as 7,077 lots were offered and 5,360 sold for a 76% success rate.

 

1 auction saw their total proceeds reach a million dollars: 


Robert Siegel Galleries. United States Postal History on December 20th: $2,092,747

7 auctions saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered in the sale:

Northeast Auctions. Fall Weekend Sale - Prints on October 27th: 164.39%
Audap and Mirabaud. http://www.americanaexchange.com/auctions/auction_detail?id=6353 on June 7th: 140.00%
Kapandji Morhange. A Provence's Castle's Library and Various. Travels, Discovery. Atlas... on April 24th: 134.06%
Robert Siegel Galleries. United States Postal History on December 20th: 129.03%
Waverly Auctions. Books on November 21st: 116.01%
Profiles in History. Hollywood on December 21st: 114.98%
Neret Minet and Tessier. Asian Art on December 16th: 107.92%


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

Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 12/15 on December 22nd: 99.68%
Waverly Auctions. Books on November 21st: 95.69%
Robert Siegel Galleries. United States Postal History on December 20th: 95.53%
Profiles in History. Hollywood on December 21st: 94.98%
Heritage Auctions. Posters - internet bidstart 12/15 on December 22nd: 91.75%
Copley Fine Art Auctions. The Sporting Sale on July 31st: 90.91%
Dirk Soulis Auctions. Comics on November 20th: 82.14%
 

For the week ahead 6 sales are scheduled:

Mon. Dec. 30th
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern and Contemporary Prints. 5 lots

Tue. Dec. 31st
Rupert Toovey and Co. West Sussex. Prints. 39 lots

Thu. Jan. 2nd
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 12/29. 245 lots

Sun. Jan. 5th
National Book Auctions. Ithaca. Books and Ephemera - MacDonald, Books-on-Books, Children's. 499 lots
Heritage Auctions - Dallas.  Comics.  internet bidding ends today.
Heritage Auctions - Movie Posters - internet bidding ends today.

Best wishes for the new year.

 

Bruce McKInney

AE

 

 

 

  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.