Auction Guide Spring 2020 | Fine Books & Collections

Auction Guide Spring 2020

Auction Guide Autumn 2019

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Forum
Metal Works

Heritage
Madison's Gift

Hindman Auctions
An Exceptional Year

Swann
For the Love of Early Books

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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

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

Book People

Auroura Morgan with her prizewinning collection

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2023 Winners Announced

Rare Book Specialist Ken Gloss on 'Improbable Finds' at the Grolier Club

Rare Book Donations Sought For Auction to Help Ukraine Booksellers

Americana

A sample of bookmarks

A History of Collecting Bookmarks

Houdini and Thurston Perform Well at Magicana Auction

Books that Shaped America Primetime Book Series

Book Arts

Cover of Artists Making Books

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

The Order Creating Napoleon’s Traveling Library Signed by its Makers at Raab

New York Public Library Releases Special Edition Library Cards to Celebrate 50 Years of Hip-Hop

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

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

Auctions

The important archive of correspondence between magician Karl Germain and Paul Fleming

Magicana Letter Archive Leads Ricky Jay Collection Sale

Atomic Bomb Book Signed by Oppenheimer and Einstein to Auction

Beatrix Potter Drawings and The New Yorker's Most Reprinted Cartoon to Auction

Rare Books

Agatha Christie, Someone At The Window. Typescript of an unpublished play, adapted from the short story The Dead Harlequin, c 1934.

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Literature Manuscripts

Gagosian's Rare Books Expert Offers New Private Library Advisory Service

Empire State Rare Book & Print Fair Debuts in NYC