Auction Update Review
On the Cusp
For the week just ended fifteen
auctions were archived: five denominated
in dollars, four in British pounds, one in Australian dollars, and five in
Euros. Four thousand seven hundred and
forty-five lots were offered and 3,557sold for a 75% success rate. For lots sold the aggregate low estimate were
$5,093,004 and the aggregate high $7,461,071.
Total sales were $8,531,258 and the total high estimate of all sold
[sold and unsold] was $10,521,109. Total
sales amounted to 81% of the aggregate high estimate. It was a good week.
Four sales reached or exceeded the
total of their high estimates:
Ferraton: Ancient and Modern Books, Prints and
Photographies – 2nd Vacation – 153%;
Christie’s: Travel, Science and Natural History – 130%
Alde: Ancient and Modern Books – XIX century –
124%;
Christie’s: L’age d’or du rail – 117%;
For the week ahead 11 sales are
scheduled:
October 4th Bonhams:
Travel and Photography [18942]
Rupert
Toovey and Co.: Books, Photos, Prints,
Ephemera [987]
October 5th Dominic Winter: Printed Books & Maps [10511]
Sothebys: Photographs [NO8775]
October 6th Alde:
Pierre Jean Remy Library [17316]
Bloomsbury
Auctions: Bibliophile [Godalming]
[35842]
Christie’s: Photographs [2470]
Dominic
Winter: Natural History [10611]
PBA
Galleries: Rare Americana [464]
October 7th Christie’s:
The American Landscape, Black and White Photographs from
The Collection
of Bruce and Nancy Berman [2515]
Tajan: Books [100711]
Bruce McKinney
3 October 2011
