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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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New York—Swann Galleries’ December 6 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints, Ephemera featured an outstanding collection of mappings of Asia, and buyers bid enthusiastically for the best and rarest examples of these.
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Seth Glick of Caliban Books in Pittsburgh.
(Boston, Massachusetts) Exhibitions scheduled for 2013 and beyond in the Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery of the Boston Athenæum feature “Brilliant Beginnings: The Athenæum and the Museum in Boston,” on the extraordinarily close collaboration that helped establish one of the world’s great art museums.
NEW YORK—The top lot at Swann Galleries’ November 29 auction of Autographs was a postcard from Pablo Picasso to conductor Henri Defossé sending New Year’s greetings from Paris in December 1919. The card, signed “Olga et Picasso,” included a small ink drawings of a holiday feast set out on a table,…
New York—The top lots at Swann Galleries’ November 20 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature were first editions of Pulitzer price winners—and two of them set auction records. Booth Tarkington’s The Magnificent Ambersons, inscribed first edition with dust jacket, 1918, and Edith Wharton’s…
What were your favorite FB&C blog posts from 2012? If you're like most of our readers, these were the top ten stories that piqued your interest last year. And if you missed one, here's your chance to look back.#1: The Books of Moonrise Kingdom. A brief look at the faux books created for Wes…
Woburn, Massachusetts - January 2013 - James D. Julia auctioneers will present a special showing of the John F. Gale Collection of Outstanding New England Paintings at the Rockport Art Association. The exhibit on January 12, 2013 will feature over 120 paintings and a talk by "Antiques Roadshow"…
Matthew Haley has been appointed Head of Books, Maps and Manuscripts UK by Bonhams, the international fine art and antiques auction house.He has been based in New York for the past four years as a specialist in fine books but will now move back to the UK to take over the running of the London…
(Palm Beach, FL) - The Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show returns to the Palm Beach County Convention Center February 15-19, 2013. Presented by the Palm Beach Show Group, this important event will feature more than 180 international exhibitors, an engaging lecture series and an expanded…
An anonymous donor gifted a rare Stephen King book to the Emmaus Center, a homeless shelter in Ellsworth, Maine. The book will be sold to raise much needed funds for the shelter.
