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

Maps

London in the 18th Century

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Photographs

Jules Verne

Signed Authors’ Photographs: Five Rare Photos for Collectors

Center for Creative Photography Acquires Nine Photography Archives

The Photography Show Returns

Book People

Kaveh Bahar

Book Collector Kaveh Bahar on Death, Mourning, and Attachment

Firsts London Rare Book Fair 2026 Opens with Special Preview Night

Charles Dickens's Great-Great-Great Grandson to Perform Ancestor's Famous 'Sikes and Nancy' Scene

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Rare Books

General George C. Marshall’s U.S. Army Chief of Staff Report, Lord Portal’s High Command copy

Archive of Material from Key Second World War Military Figure

Ernest Hemingway: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Recently Recovered Stolen Keats Love Letters On Show Before Auction

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Visual Art

2015 Panini Flawless Sole Of The Game Signatures-Gold Lionel Messi card

World Cup Stars Messi and Yamal Lead Sports Cards Auction

James Bond Movie Posters Feature in Bonhams' World of Spies Sale

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration Confirms Summer Opening Date

Exhibitions

Yashima Gakutei, A Woman with a Box and A Woman with Spools, 1820s

Rare 19th Century Japanese Surimono Albums on Show

90th Anniversary of 'The Story of Ferdinand' Celebrated with Special Exhibition

William Hogarth, Black Poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance lead Beinecke Exhibition Plans

Auctions

Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, SEVEN PLAYS, Never before Printed in Folio (London: Printed [by Robert Roberts, Robert Everingham, and John Macock] for H[enry]. Herringman, and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1685). Sold for $140,800

Unrecorded Shakespeare Fourth Folio Tops Freeman's Two Day Books Sale

Superman and Batman Debut Issues Sold for $3m at Auction

Americana

An 1885 contract signed by Sitting Bull for his appearance in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show

Unique 1885 Signed Sitting Bull Wild West Show Contract to Auction

Marilyn Monroe's Annotated Scripts, Bank Book, and Recipe for Stuffing to Auction

$4.5m Estimate for Major Benjamin Franklin Collection Auction