Auction Guide Spring 2021 | Fine Books & Collections

Auction Guide Spring 2021

Auction Guide Autumn 2020

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Heritage Auctions
Significant Signatures

Hindman Auctions
Something for Everyone

Potter & Potter Auctions
A Sale of Literary Importance

Swann Galleries
Fascinating Finds

Americana

Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment in-situ

Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation to Auction with $17m Estimate

Americana: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Thomas Jefferson’s Cicero and J. D. Salinger Letter Lead University Archives Auction

Auctions

Personal letter from Joseph Smith’s maternal grandmother, Lydia Mack, among papers of his New Hampshire uncle, 1777 – 1822. Sold for $32,500.

Mormon Founder's Family Letter Tops Swann Galleries' Americana Sale

Archive of John Ruskin Letters on Health, Politics, Religion, and Architecture at Sworders

15 Original Drawings of 'The Little Prince' by Antoine Saint-Exupéry at Auction

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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

Visual Art

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, first appearance of Spaceman Spiff, hand-colored daily comic strip original art dated November 29, 1985

Hand-Colored Calvin and Hobbes Artwork and Frank Frazetta Cover Art to Auction

Roald Dahl's Sketches for 'Boy' at Lyon & Turnbull

Spider-Man Artwork Smashes Auction Record for Greg and Tim Hildebrandt

Book People

Teresa Elsmore with a fantastical lego library model which forms part of the National Library of Scotland's centenary exhibition 'Dear Library'

Major New Exhibition Celebrates the Importance of Libraries

The Black Memory Workers Founder Zakiya Collier on Audre Lorde Manuscripts and Memory Work

Bloomsday 2025 Around the World

Photographs

Original portrait photograph of Lincoln seated with a book and his son Tad, taken February 9, 1864

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

Previouly Unseen Photograph of Sale of Charles Dickens's Belongings on Display

Only Known Photographs of Ada Lovelace to Auction: Estimate £120,000

Rare Books

The restored prayer book

Cutting Edge Laboratory Restores Rare 17th Century National Trust Prayer Book

Rare 1588 Welsh Bible Goes on Display in Wales For First Time

Dido Freire and Jean Renoir's Copy of 'Pilote de guerre': Rare Book of the Week

Maps

A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

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

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

Exhibitions

Trial sheet on vellum of William Morris’s Kelmscott Chaucer in the exhibition

'Remarkable Books' Exhibition to Run Alongside Bath Book Fair

Ellesmere Chaucer Leads Huntington's New 'Stories from the Library' Exhibition

Getty's New LGBTQ+ Exhibition Features Rare Books, Artists’ Books, and Archival Materials