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Foundational American documents from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries will be offered at…
Sotheby’s is to offer the newly restituted Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, one of the most…
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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Cate Barton, one of the honorable mentions in the 2023 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Contest for women collectors aged 30 or younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
Bibliophiles, literary enthusiasts, and scholars are gearing up for the much-anticipated Bibliography Week 2024, a week-long celebration of literary heritage, scheduled to take place this year January 22 - 27.
Former Fine Books editor Rebecca Rego Barry is preparing to go on the road in anticipation of the publication of her new book The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author next month.It is the first biography of one of the “lost ladies” of detective fiction who…
The top lot of Christie’s' Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts including Americana online auction features Andreas Vesalius’s own heavily annotated copy of the second edition of his groundbreaking anatomical atlas De humani corporis fabrica.
One of only two copies of The Amazing Spider-Man No. 1 graded CGC Near Mint/Mint 9.8 has realized a record-setting $1,380,000 at Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art sale.The book, which appeared on newsstands in March 1963 seven months after Peter Parker and his alter-ego debuted in Amazing…
Costumes and props from HBO's Succession television series made a total of $627,825 at Heritage Auction's dedicated auction, led by Roman Roy’s eulogy that went undelivered at his father Logan’s funeral in the series’ penultimate episode, Church and State.The eulogy was written across three pink…
On Wednesday, January 17 at Christie's New York, 155 lots of Fine Printed and Manuscript Americana. Expected to lead the way is one of just two known copies of a manuscript placard hung in New York in October 1765 in defiance of the Stamp Act; the other copy is in the UK National Archives. Michael…
A private collection comprising the signatures of every one of Britain’s Prime Ministers comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions in February. The assemblage of documents, letters, clipped signatures and photographs is expected to bring £9,000-£12,000 as part of a designated timed online sale of…
Sun Yat-sen's hand-annotated typed manuscript titled How China Was Made a Republic has been auctioned for $75,625 by Boston-based RR Auction. This important artifact provides unique insights into the thoughts of the founding father and first president of the Republic of China.
The National Library of Scotland has added the last piece to its collection of Broons annuals.Library curators have been searching for the elusive 1939 first edition for at least a decade, only for a copy to appear on a bookseller’s website a few months ago.
