Christie's - New York

Wednesday, June 12th, 2019

Auctions

Summa de Arithmetica: The Birth of Modern Business
Sale #17644

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Jun 10th 10am - 5pm
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Christie's - New York
20 Rockefeller Center

New York NY

40.758575, -73.980023

Christie's - New York

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Photographs

Vivian Maier, Playdate, circa 1950s

Street Photographer Vivian Maier's Vintage Prints, Self-Portraits and Earliest Camera Work to Auction

New-York Historical Society Explores Bygone Landmarks of Lost New York

First Major Exhibition of the Harriet Hayden Albums Displays Original Photos of Notable Black Bostonian and National Abolitionists

Americana

President Grover Cleveland Approves Statehood for Utah in 1896

President Grover Cleveland's Signed Document Approving Utah Statehood Sold for $27,188

Bible Jackie Kennedy Read From at JFK’s Funeral to Auction

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Knife, Gothic Library Table, and Inscribed First Editions to Auction

Book Arts

Underdog - The Other Other Bronte starring (left to right) Rhiannon Clements as Anne, Gemma Whelan as Charlotte, Adele James as Emily

World Premiere of New Bröntes Play Opens at National Theatre

The Creative Process of Italy's Most Prolific Small Publisher, Alberto Casiraghy

A New Book Examines 100 Years of the Historic Queen Mary's Dolls' House Library

Visual Art

Aldo Cosomati, For The Wimbledon Tournament June 25th, 1923

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Tennis Posters

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Golden Age of American Illustration

America’s Most Valuable Postage Stamp to Auction with $5 million Estimate

Rare Books

The Art of the Book poster

Firsts London Rare Book Fair Returns in May with ‘The Art of the Book’

Crosby-Schoyen Codex Leads Multi-Million Manuscript Collection Sale

Drew University Unveil Unpublished Biographical Notes on Mary Shelley

Book People

David Ruggles Prize

ABAA and IOBA Sponsor 2024 David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize

Textual Magic, The Library Thief, and The Book-Makers: April Books Roundup

Bookseller Maggie Mazzullo on Roxburghe Club Ephemera, 'The Long Lost Friend', and Airships in Fiction

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

Maps

Gerrit de Veer, VVaerachtighe Beschryvinghe Uan drie seylagien (Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz, 1598). Engraving, 7.8 x 19.5 in (19.6 x 49.5 cm).

Early Maps, Photographs and Artists’ Books Chart 500 years of the Arctic

Early Baseball Sheet Music, Arrowsmith’s Maps, JFK Presentation Copy: Auction Preview

Rare New Amsterdam Map Helps Reveal Life in New York Before New York

Auctions

André Vlaanderen lithographic map L'Europe en Sept 1939

Tarzan Jacket Art, Lincoln Assassination Reward Poster: Auction Preview

Rare Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, and J.M. Barrie Books at Sworders

Books from Madeleine K. Albright's Personal Collection to Auction

Exhibitions

Maker unknown, mechanical singing bird box in book form, German, mid-20th century, silver, feathers. 12.3 x 8.3 x 4.1 cm. Gift of Lynn and Bruce Heckman, 2023

Exhibition of Book-like Objects Opens at at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robert Persig's Motorcyle, Manual, and Manuscript of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' on Show

New Exhibition Celebrates Charles Dickens' Pets and Animals in his Books and Homes