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Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair returns to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from May 14 through May…
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
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Austin, TX – The Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Jacques Lowe Photographic Archive. Lowe is best known for his photographs documenting the Kennedy family, notably John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and his first year in the White House…
Connecticut — Antiquarian Auctions in the U.S. offers Sale # 5: Natural History. The majority of the sale (over 120 lots) consists of several 1000 Off-Prints, Extracts and Pamphlets from the Malacological Library of Richard I. Johnson. The auction runs from Thursday 18th March until Thursday 25th,…
New York – The Manhattan Rare Book Company is celebrating Women’s History Month by offering for sale a historically significant first edition copy of a mathematical text from the personal library of Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the renowned British scientist and mathematician (and daughter of the…
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, UK — A first edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps & Ephemeral Sale for £4,200 (plus buyer’s premium). The volume was published by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and is an example of the second state of the first issue…
New York — People who bought Suzie Frankfurt’s 1959 cookbook, Wild Raspberries looking for culinary inspiration were in for a surprise. In place of the lavish haute cuisine recipes common at the time, they found absurd concoctions such as that for Omlet Greta Garbo – Always to be eaten alone in a…
Dallas – A 93-year-old Winnie the Pooh illustration, Chas Addams cartoons, all three original trilogy Star Wars video cassette covers and an array of pulp covers from Norman Saunders and Virgil Finlay are among the top highlights in Heritage Auctions’ Illustration auction April 30.
Chicago – Hindman Auctions will present Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection at auction on March 19. The sale includes several of the most significant literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries, representing both American and English literature. Strengths of the collection include…
Philadelphia — Freeman’s is delighted to announce the results of its February 18 Books and Manuscripts auction, which realized over $445k. With spirited bidding throughout the sale from bidders both online and on the telephone, the 166-lot auction achieved an impressive 91% sell-through rate and…
New York — Swann Galleries closed out February with an exceptional sale of Fine Books & Autographs, which saw a 90% sell-through rate and exceeded the total high estimate, bringing in $522,632. The auction brought forth historic autographs from political figures and celebrities alike, as well…
Chicago — Potter and Potter's first magic sale of 2021 surpassed all metrics by leaps and bounds, with 100% sell through, a new world's record, and receipts totaling nearly $200,000 OVER the auction's high presale estimate. After the hammer fell for the last time, 39 lots realized between $1,…
