The Viennese dealer’s listing gives the dating, the scriptorium, the collation and two named and dated expert opinions. Where the price should be, a single word: Inquire. The invisible tags of the same page nonetheless carry a number, and the 48th Boston fair announces another. […]
AbeBooks, owned by Amazon since 2008, publishes each year its ten most expensive sales, ten entries and ten prices. I read the reviews from 2021 to 2025, some sixty sales. The name that comes up most often wears round glasses and a scar on its forehead. […]
Between 1985 and 2025, buyer’s premiums on books were multiplied by 2.66, the consumer price index by 2.23. The gap lies almost entirely in the years 2000-2013, when the rate went from a little over 10% to about 25% including VAT. Since 2023, some houses have passed 30%. […]
A German puzzle binding of about 1680, opening six different ways, was offered at $45,000 in Bruce McKittrick’s Rare Books catalogue no. 66. Such bindings are very rare, and nearly all recorded examples have been restored. They sat in the libraries of German Protestant nobles and princes between 1570 and the 18th century. […]
Christian Galantaris ranks copies in eight degrees, from the modern binding with short margins to the mosaic binding. Three centuries of catalogues have fixed the hierarchy of skins, and prices still recite it. In March 2024, Harvard had the binding of Les Destinées de l’âme removed. […]
On 20 June 2024, at Alde, a 1740 festival book in red morocco bearing the arms of the city of Paris, estimated at 4,000 to 5,000 euros, goes unsold. It comes back on 4 March 2025 at 3,000 to 4,000 euros and goes unsold again. On 4 June 2025, estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 euros, it is knocked down for 2,000 euros. […]
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