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Hujar: Contact is an exhibition exploring the life, times, and creative evolution of photographer…
Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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August 2012 - BOSTON, MA - The Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show, established 15 years ago by Bernice Bornstein as a satellite to the larger ABAA/ILAB Fair, is now managed by Marvin Getman of Impact Events Group. This independent show (not affiliated with the ABAA) will feature 70 book, print…
San Francisco—As part of its October 10, 2012, Fine Books and Manuscripts sale, to be held in San Francisco with a simulcast in New York, Bonhams is pleased to offer several items of literary and historical importance.
The Fine Books Blog, found at www.finebooksmagazine.com/blog, was recently given a technical update so that the full text is now available for Kindle. With the addition of mobile app readers, Kindle digital text is available on iPad, iPhone, Android devices—and, of course, Kindle devices.The Fine…
Today, we begin an occasional series at Fine Books where we conduct brief interviews with bibliomystery authors. Lovers of antiquarian books and lovers of mystery novels find few reading pleasures greater than the bibliomystery. A bibliomystery, for the uninitiated, is a mystery…
DALLAS - From a pair of spectacular bronze-mounted elephant tusks to American, European, and Contemporary Art, sewn with a varied selection of fine furniture and decorative arts - including collections of ivory figures, earthenware steins, and meerschaum pipes - Heritage Auctions’ 1400+ lot Estate…
Next month Sotheby's New York will sell property from the Estate of Brooke Astor. Nine hundred items from her Park Avenue duplex and her Westchester country home, Holly Hill, will go under the hammer during the two-day auction.
Washington, DC—The National Gallery of Art presents the first exhibition in the United States to focus on Augsburg's artistic achievements in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540 will be on view in the West Building Ground Floor…
Washington, DC—The National Gallery of Art explores how the practice of making multiple portraits of the same subjects produced some of the most revealing and provocative photographs of our time in The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years, on view in the West…
Catalogue Review: Bay Leaf Used & Rare Books, No. 3I received last week a bookseller's catalogue that made me stop and look. It's a brown file folder, into which is tucked several different sheets and cards, of varying colors and sizes, advertising a collection of 194 items on radical politics…
This year’s Carle Honors Art Auction to benefit The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art features 16 original works of art donated by some of the industry’s most celebrated artists. The art is available on display from September 5 -19 leading up to the Carle Honors at Books of Wonder bookstore in…
