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Auction Guide Autumn 2015

Auction Guide Autumn 2015

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Addison & Sarova Auctioneers
Small-Town House Brings Big Ticket Sales

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September Sale Showcases Icons of Progress

Christie’s
The Architecture of a Great Sale

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Chart-Topping Cartography

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Photographs

The daguerreotype set of the franklin expedition men in their uniforms

Historic Franklin Expedition Photos Sold For £444,500

Rare Early Photographs By and Of African Americans Acquired by National Gallery of Art

Final Photographs of Doomed Franklin Expedition to Auction

Visual Art

L'Arroseur Arrosé (The Waterer Watered) poster

World’s First Movie Poster Makes its Debut at Auction

Historic Batman and Robin, Star Wars, and X-Men Covers Plus Frank Frazetta Art To Auction

New Exhibition Shows Unseen Works by Moomins Creator Tove Jansson

Book Arts

Marble endpaper by Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart on The Secret Language of Endpapers

Innovative 'Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings' Book Explores Post-Pandemic World

New Book Focuses on Artists’ Books From the Middle East and Beyond

Auctions

Illustration from Maria Sibylla Merian

Women's Suffrage Collection and a Pennyroyal Caxton Bible: Auction Preview

Dozens of Records Set for Books by James Baldwin, P.G. Wodehouse, and Evelyn Waugh at Charlie Watts Sale

Rare Playing Cards, Medieval Prayer Book, and John Gould Lead Tennants Sale

Exhibitions

George Lowther, The Adventures of Superman. Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., No. 656. From the collection of Molly Guptill Manning.

Did the US Have the Best-Read Army in World War II?

New Exhibition on Bloomsbury Group and Fashion Opens

Phaidon and Christie’s Celebrate a Century of Bookmaking

Book People

Shelf of old books

Books Are the Best Zoom Background for Online Meetings Say Researchers

Poetry Foundation Library: Small presses, chapbooks and Langston Hughes

Rare Books Community Petition Paris Authorities Over Potential Bouquinistes Removal

Rare Books

A Soldier's Story by General Omar N. Bradley

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Empire Book Fair

Folio Society Releases Limited Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Plays

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Literature Manuscripts

Sponsored

reading a book

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Ocean manuscript poem by Phillis Wheatley, 1773

Smithsonian Acquires Major Phillis Wheatley Peters Collection

John Steinbeck’s Sword and First Draft Fragment of ’Of Mice and Men’ Eaten by his Dog to Auction

George Washington’s Original Letter on God, Heaven & War for Sale for the First Time

Maps

Two first edition copies of the Greenwood London maps published in 1827

London Book Dealer Paul Bentley's Map Collection to Auction

Rare Spanish Armada Maps on Display for the First Time

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut