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More than 155 items related to Benjamin Franklin including printed ephemera, books, letters,…
Unique Friends scripts and photo album will go under the hammer on June 5 at Heritage Auctions to…
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Berkeley, CA — PBA Galleries announced a PBA Platinum Sale on Thursday, February 10th, 2022. The sale consists of 113 select lots of rare, important, and valuable material in all fields, with printed books from the 16th to 21st centuries containing landmarks of science, literature, and history;…
Wilton, CT – Two letters signed by Albert Einstein (one typed, one handwritten, both in German), a recognizance bond signed by Sir Isaac Newton when he was Warden of the Royal Mint in 1699, and two items signed by Abraham Lincoln (one an autograph album, the other an early legal brief drafted…
London — James Joyce’s Ulysses was published at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co, on 2nd February 1922. A hundred years on, the book is still fascinating and maddening readers around the world, often hailed as a “demonstration and summation” of the entire modernist movement.
Clogs, sketchbooks, and an iconic waistcoat will go on display alongside hundreds of other literary artifacts later this month when a major new exhibition telling the life story of children’s writer Beatrix Potter opens in London.
Amsterdam — Every now and again, those of us lucky enough to be immersed in the world of antique books come across something that particularly excites us.
It may be the age and edition that is exciting. This particular book is a first edition from 1543.
Perhaps it is the importance of…
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New York — Drawing in more bidders than any other auction in Bonhams history (live or online), The Library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg online sale completed Thursday as a white glove sale, with every lot selling well beyond its pre-sale estimate. Leading the sale was the standout performance of…
Boston — Remarkable Royalty is featured in RR Auction's February Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.
Boasting 1,000+ lots, the auction is highlighted by royal autographs from the Tudor era to the present day—including King Henry VII, King Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, the Romanov princesses,…
Earlier this week, an extensive research portal created to explore the work of French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) went live. A collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, and Association Marcel Duchamp, the platform aggregates the digitized archival holdings at…
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries' first auction of the year, Sale 752 held on January 13th had an impressive 91% sale rate, with a large amount of early bidding on numerous lots, and competitive bidding throughout the sale.
