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Highlights of the Potter & Potter Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia auction on April 18…
Highlights from the collection of rare book dealer, publisher, and collector David Aronovitz will…
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Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Travis Low of Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — FEBRUARY 3, 2013: We are very pleased to announce that after a number of years, Philadelphia will once again host a fine Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair. It will be held on Sunday February 3 and presents some of the finest vintage Book & Ephemera Dealers in America &…
A copy, in the author’s hand, of one of the best known and loved hymns in the English language, Onward Christian Soldiers, is to be auctioned in the sale of The Roy Davids Collection Part III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 10 April.…
The last emerging archive highlight was the Women's Liberation Music Archive,
San Francisco, CA (January 29, 2013) — The annual celebration of the printed word, the 46th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, returns to San Francisco on Friday, February 15 through Sunday, February 17, 2013 at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco.
The book blogosphere put forth not one but two articles in the past week on book collecting for beginners (cheers all around). First, Laura Massey at The Cataloguer's Desk: Dispatches from a Rare Book Shop (Peter Harrington in London) presented Book Collecting: Tips for Beginners.
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books on Thursday, February 28 offers Aldine imprints, Bibles, classics, medieval manuscript leaves and post-medieval manuscripts, music, books by and relating to Samuel Johnson, and works on…
Paris, January 2013—Sotheby’s is honoured to announce the sale of the Library of the Ducs de Luynes from the Château of Dampierre—one of the most important private libraries in France. The sale runs to nearly 1000 lots, charting the history of an illustrious family intimately linked to the history…
French and Malian troops reclaimed the historic city of Timbuktu yesterday from militant Islamic extremists. Timbuktu has been a center of culture and learning for centuries and the city i
Washington, D.C.—This summer, The Phillips Collection reveals insights into the creative process of the great French cubist master Georges Braque (1882-1963) by investigating a previously overlooked period in the artist’s career. Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945 features 42…
