Join us for a fun night auction featuring selected collections of wines and spirits encompassing Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Margaux, Tokaj Ai-Danil and so much more!
Bidding Notice:
Hibid will be use for absentee bidding for this sale. The absentee bids will be downloaded and executed during the live auction on January 30, 2019 at 6:00 PM. You may attend the auction in person to bid live. There will also be live online bidding with an increased buyer's premium of 27% through Invaluable.com & liveauctioneers.com.
Fine & Decorative Art Auction - January 26, 2019 at 11AM (EST)
Fine and Decorative Arts featuring American, European and Modern furniture, designers including Mies van de Rohe, Frank Gehry, Louis Durot, and others. Decorative arts such as porcelain, silver, figurines, fine clocks, glass, and more. Featuring art works by Montague J. Dawson, George Ault, Ida Kohlmeyer, B. Prabha, Paul Reed and more. In addition, a fine collection of tortoise shell arts, Meissen figurines and export porcelains from the Estate of Thomas and Jane Stanhope. Asian decorative arts including the Charles F.B. Price collection of Chinese textiles. Also featuring Chinese paintings, Southeast Asian porcelain and Buddhism arts, among others.
Preview Available:
Saturday, January 19, 10am -12pm
Monday, January 21, 10am - 5pm
Tuesday, January 22, 10am - 6pm
Wednesday, January 23, 10am - 6pm
Thursday, January 24, 10am - 5pm
Friday, January 25, 10am - 4pm
Saturday, January 26, 9am-11am
Shipping and Handling for THIS AUCTION:
Quinns Auctions /Waverly Books ONLY ship with FedEx Domestic and USPS internationally. We can take up to 2 weeks to ship as we are a small auction house. We do not ship Media Mail. We do not ship framed in glass lots or framed lots over 12” square. Lots can be de-framed in some instances. Shipping costs are based on the weight of your lots and your location. We require a complete shipping address and phone number to process your shipping quote. You will receive your shipping quote in your invoice via your registered email. Once payment is received Quinns/Waverly Books will ship items FedEx ground in the United States, USPS International or release items to an outside shipper.
Quinns/Waverly Books reserves the right to recommend an outside shipper based on fragility and size of lot. We offer recommendations for outside shipping by trusted shippers if necessary. If using an outside shipper Quinns/Waverly Books is not responsible for damages by carriers or packers of purchased lots, whether or not recommended by Quinns/Waverly Books, and will not be liable for any losses which result.
Bidding Notice:
Internet Absentee bids will be accepted via HiBid. These absentee bids will be downloaded and executed againet live bidders during the live auction at 360 S. Washington Street.
Thursday, Janaury 24th @ 6:00PM
Quinn's Auction Galleries and Waverly Rare Books & Prints is pleased to offer a sale of Fine Art Prints, Posters, and Works on Paper, ranging from the late 19th century to present day.
- Accessible art for the new collector: over 250 lots priced at $200 and less.
- Impressive works by Tsuguharu Foujita, Pablo Picasso, Sol LeWitt, Marc Chagall, David Hockney, Alfredo Castañeda, and more.
- Works by Dang Lebadang, Shaih Li-Fa, Marino Marini, Joseph Pennell, Raphael Soyer, Jacques Villon, Clay Huffman, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Charles Bragg, and more.
- James Montgomery Flagg's iconic WWI poster, "I Want You."
- Watercolors, drawings, photographs, editioned objects in addition to prints.
Preview Available
Saturday, January 19, 10am-12pm
Monday, January 21, 10am – 5pm
Tuesday, January 22, 10am – 6pm
Wednesday, January 23, 10am – 6pm
Thursday, January 24, 10am – 6pm
For more information contact :
Waverly Rare Books & Prints Department
703-532-5632 ext. 575
Multi-Estate Ethnographic Auction: Merton Simpson and more
December 8, 2018, 11:00 AM @ Falls Church
Preview Available:
Saturday, December 1, 10am-12pm
Monday, December 3, 10am - 5pm
Tuesday, December 4, 10am - 6pm
Wednesday, December 5, 10am - 6pm
Thursday, December 6, 10am - 5:00pm
Friday, December 7, 10am - 4:00pm
Saturday, December 8, 10am-11am
Collectors' Series: Coin & Currency Auction 11-28-2018
5:30 PM EST @ Falls Church Location
Quinn's Auction Galleries is pleased to offer a dedicated sale of 400+ lots of gold and silver coins, including Morgan silver dollars, Liberty and Indian head coins, and more!
Preview Time:
Monday, November 26, 10am - 5pm
Tuesday, November 27, 10am - 6pm
Wednesday, November 28, 10am - 5:30pm
Collectors Series: Science Fiction, Comics & Fantasy
November 15th, 2018 @ 6:00PM
Quinn's Auction Galleries and Waverly Rare Books are pleased to offer a dedicated sale of Science Fiction, Comics, & Fantasy. Amassed from several long-standing collections, this sale includes:
Significant works by famed American poet and fantasy, horror and science fiction author Clark Ashton Smith, including an unpublished manuscript/draft of 'La Isla de Circe' and an independent press printing of The Hill of Dionysus.
Leah Bodine Drake's 'A Hornbook For Witches.' 1950. 1st edition from the limited release of 553 copies.
Five original comic art storyboards by Sal Buscema for Thor, Captain America, Marvel Two-in-One, and The Defenders.
Over 10,000 Modern Age comic books, as well as several Gold Age and Silver Age issues.
Large runs of early pulp fiction magazines, including Unknown/Unknown Worlds, Astounding Stories, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Preview Times:
Saturday, November 10: 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Monday, November 12: 10:00AM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, November 13: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
Wednesday, November 14: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
Thursday, November 15: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
Bidding Notice:
Internet Absentee bids will be accepted via HiBid. These absentee bids will be downloaded and executed againet live bidders during the live auction at 360 S. Washington Street.
Chinese Snuff Bottle Auction - November 1, 2018 @ 6:30 PM
Join us for a Thursday night auction featuring Chinese snuff bottles of various materials, including jade, porcelain, glass, semi-precious stones, lacquer, and so much more!
Preview Available:
Saturday, October 27, 10am – 12pm
Monday, October 29, 10am – 5pm
Tuesday, October 30, 10am – 6pm
Wednesday, October 31, 10am – 6pm
Thursday, November 1, 10am – 6:30pm
For more information contact
Asian Arts Department
703-532-5632 ext. 572
Bidding Notice:
Internet Absentee bids will be accepted via HiBid. These absentee bids will be downloaded and executed againet live bidders during the live auction at 360 S. Washington Street.
Wednesday, October 17 at 6:30 PM
Join us for an interesting Wednesday night auction featuring outsider and folk arts of vairous materials, encompassing Jose Maria Cundin, Ruby Williams, R. A. Miller, and so much more! Featuring a fun collection of colorful Caribbean folk arts from Stella Walters.
Preview Available:
Friday, October 12, 10am – 4pm
Saturday, October 13, 10am – 12pm
Monday, October 15, 10am – 5pm
Tuesday, October 16, 10am – 6pm
Wednesday, October 17, 10am – 6:30pm
Fine & Decorative Art Auction - September 15, 2018 at 11AM (EST)
Fine and Decorative Arts featuring American, European and Modern furniture, designers including Micheal Taylor, Mies van de Rohe, Florence Knoll, Charles Pollock, and others. Decorative Arts such as silver, porcelain, sculpture, fine clocks, glass, Majolica, paintings, and more. Featuring works by Jay Connaway, Maximilien Luce, Merton Simpson, Balcomb Greene, and more. In addition, a fine collection of Asian decorative arts including the Bucklin collection of Chinese jade, the Richard Smith collection of Buddhist arts and Chinese paintings, contemporary Chinese paintings, Japanese decorative arts, among others.
Preview Available:
Saturday, September 8, 10am -12pm
Monday, September 10, 10am - 5pm
Tuesday, September 11, 10am - 6pm
Wednesday, September 12, 10am - 6pm
Thursday, September 13, 10am - 5pm
Friday, September 14, 10am - 4:30pm
Saturday, September 15, 9am-11am
Bidding Notice:
Internet Absentee bids will be accepted via HiBid. These absentee bids will be downloaded and executed againet live bidders during the live auction at 360 S. Washington Street.
Thursday, September 13, 2018 @ 6:00PM
Quinn's Auction Galleries and Waverly Rare Books & Prints are pleased to offer a Rare Books Catalog Auction on September 13th, 2018 at 6:00PM. The sale features a large and significant group of early printed books and other material spanning the 1400s through the 1700s, including books by Durandus, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, and George Simon Winter, and prints by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Lucas van Leyden. In addition, the sale contains books from the personal libraries of Robert Southey and James Boswell, as well as a fine copy of Donald Mennie's Grandeur of the Gorges, complete with original box. We will also offer important Black Americana: the historically important, exceedingly rare,1854 address by Frederick Douglass to the Literary Societies of Western Reserve College, At Commencement; the Archive of printed material and manuscript papers belonging to Charles E. Francis, author of "The Tuskegee Airmen; The Story of the Negro in the U.S. Air Force." Autographs, fine bindings and illustrated works complete our sale.
Part II in our series of Natural World Fine Print Auctions follows our book sale; animals, birds, botanicals, fish, amphibians and reptiles of all kinds are richly represented in a sale of more than 170 lots. Included are bird and quadruped plates from John James Audubon's Octavo and Bien Editions. Other important prints in the sale include works by Basilius Besler, John Gould, Innocente Alessandri, Comte de Buffon, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emanuel Sweerts, and Johann Christoph Volckhamer.
Preview Times:
September 8th: 10:00AM - 12:00PM
September 10th: 10:00AM - 5:00PM
September 11th: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
September 12th: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
September 13th: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
Bidding Notice:
Internet Absentee bids will be accepted via HiBid. These absentee bids will be downloaded and executed againet live bidders during the live auction at 360 S. Washington Street.
Wine and Spirits September 12, 2018
Auction starts 6:00 PM.
Join us for a fun night auction featuring selected collections of wines and spirits encompassing Marquis de Lur Saluces, Romanee-Conti, Château Margaux, Chateau Bahans Haut Brion, and so much more!
Preview Available:
Saturday, September 8, 10am - 12pm
Monday, September 10, 10am - 5pm
Tuesday, September 11, 10am - 6pm
Wednesday, September 12, 10am - 6pm
NOTE:
Shipping of wine lots will be determined on a case by case basis as state and international shipping laws are significantly different from state to state and country to country. We will facilitate all shipping that would involve an outside shipper, i.e. DHL, UPS and we will pack your wine when at all possible to lower costs to our winning bidders.
Thursday, July 26th @ 6:00PM
Quinn's Auction Galleries and Waverly Rare Books & Prints is pleased to offer a sale of Fine Art Prints, Posters, and Works on Paper, ranging from the late 19th century to present day.
Sale Highlights:
- Accessible art for the new collector: over 200 lots priced at $400 and less.
- Andy Warhol's Cancelled Production Screen for the famous 'Marilyn' silkscreens.
- Works by Aaron Douglas, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Ansel Adams, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, and Rockwell Kent.
- Significant works by Washington, D.C. area artists, including Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam, Rockne Krebs, Werner Drewes, Kathleen Spagnolo, and Paul Reed.
- Over a dozen 20th Century Self-Portraits, including: Karl Knaths, Martin Lewis, Isaac Friedlander, & Prentiss Taylor.
- Posters from the Hans Sachs Collection.
- Original drawings, watercolors, and mixed media pieces from renowned artists.
Preview Times:
July 21st: 10:00AM - 12:00PM (S)
July 23rd: 10:00AM - 5:00PM (M)
July 24th: 10:00AM - 6:00PM (T)
July 25th: 10:00AM - 6:00PM (W)
July 26th: 10:00AM - 6:00PM (Th)
Fine & Decorative Arts auction
Quinn’s Auction Galleries
Saturday, June 9 at 11:00 AM
Fine and decorative arts featuring American, European and Modern furniture including , Galle, Charles and Ray Eames, Hans Wegner, Eero Saarinen, and others. Decorative Arts such as silver, porcelain, sculpture, fine clocks, art pottery and glass, paintings, prints, chandeliers, modern design, and more. Featuring works by Sam Gilliam, Amedeo Modigliani, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cesar Legaspi, and more. In addition, a fine collection of Asian decorative arts including two stunning Chinese libation cups, the Cockrell collection of Chinese export porcelain, jade, snuffbottle, contemporary Chinese paintings, Japanese decorative arts, among others.
Preview Available:
Saturday, June 2, 10am - 1pm.
Monday, June 4, 10am - 5pm
Tuesday, June 5, 10am - 5pm
Wednesday, June 6, 10am - 5pm
Thursday, June 7, 10am - 5:30pm
Friday, June 8, 10am - 4:30pm
Saturday, June 9, 10am - 11am
For more information contact Fine and Decorative Arts Department
703-532-5632 ext. 571 / 572
June 7, 2018 @ 6:00PM
Waverly Books and Quinn’s Auctions are delighted to offer a significant collection of Modern First Editions, including The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath and titles by George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, Aldous Huxley, Herman Hesse, Rudyard Kipling and many more over more than 150 Lots. The sale will also include books, clothing and prints from the Estate of Dr. John Joseph McLaughlin, host of The McLaughlin Group, a collection of Children’s and Illustrated books, as well as a significant number of maps and atlases and Old Master Prints.
Preview Times:
June 2: 10:00AM - 1:00PM
June 4: 10:00AM - 5:00PM
June 5: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
June 6: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
June 7: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
Bidding Notice:
Internet Absentee bids will be accepted via HiBid. These absentee bids will be downloaded and executed againet live bidders during the live auction at 360 S. Washington Street.
June 6, 2018 @ 6:00PM
Quinn's Auction Galleries and Waverly Rare Books are proud to offer a Collectors Series Auction of Comic Books & Comic Art. Amassed from several long-standing collections, this sale ranges from the Golden Age of Comics to Modern and present-day issues. A significant number have been graded by the CGC, an independent comic evaulation service trusted by collectors worldwide. Highlights of the sale include: original storyboard art by Sal and John Buscema, The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (Marvel, 1964), and Thor #165 (Marvel, 1969).
Preview Times:
June 2: 10:00AM - 1:00PM
June 4: 10:00AM - 5:00PM
June 5: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
June 6: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
It's cherry blossom season in DC! Sakura no Uta, the song of cherry blossom. Join us for an exciting Thursday night auction featuring Japanese arts encompassing Woodblock print, Kimono, Lacquer ware, and so much more! The auction includes the collection of Japanese Kimono, books and decorative arts from Sachiko Asano, a Maryland estate.
Preview Available:
Saturday, April 7, 10am - 12pm
Monday, April 9, 10am - 5pm
Tuesday, April 10, 10am - 6pm
Wednesday, April 11, 10am - 6pm
Thursday, April 12, 10am - 6pm
Quinn's Auction Galleries and Waverly Rare books are pleased to offer a catalog auction of rare books, manuscripts, maps, autographs, prints, photographs, and ephemera. The sale includes a signed letter by Alexander Hamilton and has a significant Travel and Exploration section.
Preview is available starting Saturday, March 17, 2018.
Preview Hours:
March 17, 2018: 10:00am-12:00pm (S)
March 19, 2018: 10:00am-5:00pm (M)
March 20, 2018: 10:00am-6:00pm (T)
March 21, 2018: 10:00am-6:00pm (W)
March 22, 2018: 10:00am-6:00pm (Th)
Bidding Notice:
Internet Absentee bids will be accepted via HiBid. These absentee bids will be downloaded and executed againet live bidders during the live auction at 360 S. Washington Street.
Quinn’s Auction Galleries is excited to present ‘The Faces of Merton Simpson’, a compilation of portraits, collages, and studies by artist, African art dealer, and activist Merton D. Simpson at 5:30 PM on Thursday February 22nd in Falls Church. Merton D. Simpson (1928-2013) was an abstract expressionist painter and a part of the Spiral Group, an African-American Artist collective that was passionate about social and political issues. This sale features portraits and collaged works of Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Percy Sutton, Pablo Picasso, Spike Lee, Diana Ross, Maya Angelou, & Elton John, among others.
Bidding Notice:
Internet Absentee bids will be accepted via HiBid. These absentee bids will be downloaded and executed againet live bidders during the live auction at 360 S. Washington Street.