Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635)Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois... Paris: Chez Jean Berjon, 1613.Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000. Realized $758,000Bloomsbury Auctions, which has been leading the auction world into no- and low-reserve sales, realized twice its estimate for the recent auction of the de Orbe Novo Collection of early books related to the New World 1492-1625, with complete sell-through of all eight-one lots for a total of $3,489,000, or $43,000 per lot.At a time when rare book auctions are typically selling only 70%-75% of lots offered, this is big news. Yet the sale has received zero coverage from the book...
