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Auction Guide Autumn 2015

Auction Guide Autumn 2015

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Small-Town House Brings Big Ticket Sales

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September Sale Showcases Icons of Progress

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Book Arts

LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Bach Manuscript Inspires Bodleian Libraries Concert

New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Photographs

Julia Margaret Cameron, The Rosebud Garden of Girls, 1868, albumen print

Pioneering Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron at the Morgan

Library of Congress Acquires Major Chicano Movement Photography and Manuscript Collection

Buzz Aldrin Portrait, V2, and First Earthrise Top Bonhams Moon Photo Sale

Exhibitions

Historic Manuscripts Tell Story of Radical Gardening in New Exhibition

Works by Frédéric Chopin Including Recently Discovered Waltz at the Morgan

National Archives to Display Historic Volumes in Declaration of Independence Celebration

Americana

Handwritten letter from Clyde Barrow to his brother on the back of a photograph of one of the gang's Gulf Coast hideouts

Handwritten Manuscripts Related to Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James and Buffalo Bill to Auction

Getty Villa Museum Will Reopen June 27 After Palisades Fire Closure

Major Collection of Lincoln Manuscripts, Letters, and Campaign Ephemera to Auction

Rare Books

Harvard Law School's original Magna Carta

Harvard Law School’s Magna Carta 'Copy' Authenticated as Original

Black Book of Hours: Rare Book of the Week

New Rare Book Shop Philip Salmon & Company Opens Its Doors in Boston

Visual Art

The new wooden Tolkien statue

Tolkien Sculpture to be Unveiled Next Month

Medieval Manuscript Codes Deciphered in New Getty Exhibition

Maurice Sendak Masterpieces Lead Illustration Art Sale

Book People

The Nelson manuscripts at Firsts London

Horatio Nelson's Secret Codes and Weather Log at Firsts London

Edward Gorey, Bibliotherapy in the Bronx, and Mark Twain: May Books Roundup

University of Iowa Librarian Jenna Silver on Lee Harvey Oswald's Autopsy and the Sackner Archive

Maps

John Rocque’s Plan of The House, Gardens, Park & Hermitage of Their Majesties at Richmond; and of their R.H. the Prince of Wales & the Princes Royal at Kew

Maps of 18th Century Gardens: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Sunderland Collection Rare Cartographical Loan on Display

16th Century Cartographer's Library Recreated at TEFAF Maastricht

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Auctions

Opening from Miró and Éluard's "A toute épreuve" (1958).

Lincoln Rarities, Éluard-Breton Association Copy, Superman #1: Auction Preview

Gutenberg Bible Leaf, Katherine Dunham Correspondence, J.P. Morgan's Jewels: Auction Preview

Barbara Taylor Bradford Inscribed First Editions, Writing Desks, and Typewriter to Auction