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Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Fine Books and Manuscripts online sale today featuring…
Freeman’s will begin its yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the…
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An early treatment for Gene Hackman's planned movie adapation of The Silence of the Lambs features in Bonhams' The Gene Hackman Collection:
A Life in Art, Part III
auction which runs online until December 4.
The Apple Computer Company Partnership Agreement joins founding father Rufus King's United States Constitution draft at Christie's' We the People: America at 250 auction.
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Christina Vortia, Chief Librarian at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in Washington DC.What is your role at your institution?
A first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens's 1843 A Christmas Carol leads Bellmans’ Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on December 3.
Christmas celebrations are already underway at the Charles Dickens Museum in London which is the home in which Dickens himself and his family celebrated yuletide.Over the festive period an extension of the current Showtime! exhibition will be on view in Dickens’s study, exploring Dickens’s…
A scarce copy of Beatrix Potter’s The Fairy Caravan leads Tennants’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on December 11.
Bonhams' upcoming Spencer Tracy: Collection of a Screen Icon sale will feature literary items from the personal collection of Hollywood actor Spencer Tracy.
Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi's 1602 De animalibus insectis libri septem is widely regarded as the first printed book focussed entirely on insects and a cornerstone of modern entomology.Aldrovandi (1522-1605) was the chair of natural history at the University of Bologna, and founded a…
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
Vincent Van Gogh’s Piles de romans parisiens et roses dans une verre (Romans parisiens) has been sold at Sotheby's for $62.7m which is the second highest price for a still life by the artist.It appeared at the auction of The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection and had an estimate in the…
