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A number of civil war maps go under the hammer at Swann Galleries tomorrow in its Printed & Manuscript Americana sale.Leading the lots is a Union-drawn manuscript map of the Virginia countryside southwest of Alexandria very early in the war, around September 1861, shortly after the July 1861…
William Blake's The Tyger comes from his rare first issue of Songs of Experience and will be offered at Christie's next month as a single, unbound work, the only impression from the earliest colour printed edition that is in private hands.
Highlights of Peter Harrington's latest catalogue Ruinous Wrath: The Literature of War include:
The latest Freeman’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts auction featured selections from Richard Flaherty’s Shakespeare library, including a previously unrecorded copy of the rare Third Folio which was the hightest selling lot at $121,150, more than triple its low estimate.
Here are the sales I'll be watching through the rest of November:
A variety of lots at Bonhams' current Books, Atlases, and Manuscripts online auction ending November 19 include unique materials relating to novelist Anthony Powell best known for his A Dance to the Music of Time novel series.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Kirin Gupta, one of the 2024 Honorable Mentions in the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for woman collectors aged 30 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
The Bonhams Deeds Not Words: A Women's Suffrage Collection online auction running November 10 – 20 features a single owner collection of rare suffragette memorabilia.The sale includes letters, photographs, memorabilia, postcards, books, and hunger strike medals that all tell the story of the women…
The anticipated top lot at Hake’s' November 18-19 sale is a Marvel X-Men #1 comic book published in September 1963 that contains the origin story and first appearance of the X-Men as well as Magneto. The Silver Age Marvel comic pairs a Stan Lee story with Jack Kirby’s cover and interior art…
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Queen’s Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece by David FletcherA richly illustrated book featuring all of late Tudor cartographer-farmer Christopher Saxton’s groundbreaking maps of…
