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

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

Photographs

Descent of the Rabbit

Photographic Evidence of Lartigue’s Daredevil Pet to Auction

ICP Photobook Fest Weekend Preview

Ansel Adams, Paul Greenberg, and Beatles in America Photographs to Auction

Book Arts

John Milton biscuits design developed in collaboration with Milton’s Cottage.

Celebrate National Biscuit Day with Remarkable John Milton Biscuits

Kickstarter Tribute to Library of Congress Rare Books Expert Mark Dimunation

Countdown begins to Festival of Libraries

Exhibitions

Codex Atlanticus

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Atlanticus' to be Displayed in the U.S.

Play and Pastimes in Medieval Manuscripts at Getty

Illuminated Manuscripts Feature in Story of The Sassoons

Visual Art

Celebrating Elizabeth Gould.

Gould, Audubon, and Lear in New Exhibit Celebrating Writing About Birds

Books and Reading Centrestage at Chelsea Flower Show 2023

Jimi Hendrix 1968 ‘Flying Eyeball’ Poster Sets Auction Record

Americana

Manuscript lyrics for On the Radio

Donna Summer's Handwritten Lyrics to Auction

Manuscript Fragment from The Scarlet Letter Leads Nathaniel Hawthorne Auction

Bibliophile's Lifetime African-American Collection Heads to Brown University

Book People

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery aims to digitize and publish ads placed in newspapers across the United States by formerly enslaved people searching for lost or missing family members and loved ones after emancipation.

National Archives Awards $6.5 Million in Grants for Historical Records Projects

Handling Jane Austen First Editions at University of Iowa Special Collections

Heritage Auctions Looking to Appoint Rare Books Cataloguer/Writer

Maps

John Speed's atlas

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut

18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Auctions

Frontispiece and title page of "Narrative of Sojourner Truth"

McMurtry Estate, Sci/Fi Classics, Beethoven Letter: Auction Preview

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward First Editions, Association Copies, and Film Scripts

Draco Malfoy's Nimbus 2001 Leads Hollywood: Then and Now Auction

Rare Books

Relacion de la real tragicomedia con que los Padres de la Compania de Jesus

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Spanish & Portuguese Golden Age Literature

Charles Dickens Signed Presentation First Impression of 'American Notes' to Auction

Win #42 of Folio Society’s New Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy