Bonhams - London, Knightsbridge

Date(s)

Wednesday, December 4th, 2019

Auctions

Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs

11am

Bonhams - London, Knightsbridge
Montpelier Street

Knightsbridge, London, UK

51.499344, -0.16580369999997

Bonhams - London, Knightsbridge

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

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’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

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

Visual Art

America's Answer! Production (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942)

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Yuletide at Winterthur Offers Literature-Inspired Festive Experiences

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction

Rare Books

Batman #1

Batman No. 1 and Superman No. 1 Comics Sell for $13m Total

Pacific Voyages: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Hemingway Letters: Five Rare Letters for Collectors

Auctions

A correspondence from the California Gold Rush, Jonathan Palmer Webster, 1849-1850

Gold Rush Letters, 'Puck' cartoons, and 'Lucrèce Borgia' Photos: The Week in Rare Books

Rothschild Vienna Mahzor 15th Century Hebrew Prayerbook Sold for $6.4m

Groundbreaking Vega Expedition Polar Archive to Auction

Americana

James Monroe, Robert R. Livingston, and Francois Barbe-Marbois documents signed for the Ratification of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty (estimate: $20,000+)

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the Louisiana Purchase Lead Presidents Sale

Railroadiana Ephemera: Five Rare Items for Collectors

Steve Jobs Signed Apple Check No. 1 Sold for $2.4m at Auction

Book People

Richard C Ramer

Rare Book Community Mourns Death of Richard C. Ramer

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Honorable Mention Amalia V on Collecting Sex

New Newberry Library $4m Grant Will Expand Access to Indigenous Studies Collections

Photographs

Left, Brassaï, A happy group at the Quartre Saisons (Groupe joyeux au bal musette de Quatre-Saisons), c.1932. Gelatin silver print. Right: Brassaï, Girls in miniskirts at Les Halles (Filles aux Halles en Mini-jupe), 1930s Gelatin silver print.

'Brassaï’s Secret Paris' Opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York

Collector Jaeden Yoshikawa on Real Photo Post Cards and Lovers' Locations

New Exhibition Celebrates Photography in Children's Books

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Exhibitions

Little Nell – the beautiful child in her gentle slumber- tide by Samuel Williams. Through her deathbed scene, Dickens channelled his grief for the death of his 17-year-old sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth. Dickens’s feedback to Williams was to make Nell childish and her surroundings grim to create a starker contrast.

Unpublished Charles Dickens Fan Letter Opens New Exhibition on Women in His Life

Printing Errors Celebrated in Upcoming Yale Library Exhibition

Complete and Gilded Book of the Dead Goes on View for First Time