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This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections…
Never-before-seen photographs of Marilyn Monroe, her annotated scripts, and her handwritten recipes…
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Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation, in partnership with DELPIRE & CO, are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
PBA Galleries will present an auction of Americana – Travel & Exploration – World History – Cartography on December 17th, 2020. Offerings include three-hundred and eighty lots of rare and varied material, an eclectic gathering of historical and cultural interest, and more.
Los Angeles – A scarce first edition, first printing of Charles Darwin’s iconic book, On the Origin of Species will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on December 10, 2020. In this revolutionary book that upended man's own view of himself, Darwin posits natural selection as the engine…
Washington, D.C. — The Library of Congress will award the 2020 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to Terrance Hayes, for his book “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” and to former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey for lifetime achievement.
This year, we are all looking for ways to reassure ourselves, to make the world seem less unpredictable than it has been over the last twelve months.
Here are some of the auctions I'll be watching this week: The Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction, Part IV at Heritage Auctions is ongoing, and ends on Monday, December 7. The 1,061 lots include a huge range of mystery titles, as have the other sales from Penzler's collection.
This month, Bonhams hosts two Prints & Multiples sales – one in Knightsbridge on Wednesday 9 December, and one in New Bond Street on Tuesday 15 December.
Just a couple of weeks ago, the Rochester Institute of Technology announced that a group of students had discovered a palimpsest using an imaging system that they developed. As they examined a fifteenth-century manuscript leaf using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging, they discovered ‘hidden’ layers…
New York -- Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books are on the block at Swann Galleries on Thursday, December 17. The sale will feature a strong showing of world cartography, as well as a standout selection of historical prints and paintings of the natural sciences.
It’s that time of year, and sure, buying a book for a bibliophile is generally a good idea, but it can be tricky to pick just the right thing. So we’ve pulled together a short list of “gifty” books that we’ve reviewed this year or that have been highly recommended.
