Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Christie’s will present Valuable Books in the History of Astronomy from the Collection of Jay M.
On Wednesday, April 10, Dominic Winter Auctioneers will sell 466 lots of Printed Books, Maps & Caricatures, Architecture & the Fine Arts, including a complete set of James Sowerby's Mineral…
A March 10, 1836 document transmitting land to his brother Charles Lockhart, dated just four days after the fall of the Alamo. Lockhart had left the garrison to procure supplies and was in Gonzales…
The Bonhams online sale Remarkable Women: Manuscripts and Memorabilia ends on Tuesday, April 2; the 55 lots include a large collection related to the author Armine von Tempski (1892–1943), including…
Highlights from Swann Galleries' April 11 Fine Books auction featuring a spec
At Artcurial on Tuesday, March 26, 142 lots of Livres & Manuscrits, including Hans Bellmer's Les Jeux de la poupée (1949) with illustrations by Paul Éluard (€35,000–40,000); Jacques-François…
At ALDE on Tuesday, March 19, 192 lots of Livres de Gastronomie, including two manuscript volumes documenting the menus and food expenditures of the French royal court: the volume for 1680 is…
In early 2020 I found a dusty and tired looking book while helping clear out my father’s loft.
