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Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY announces the opening of a new exhibition which uses the history of Hans Sloane’s voyage to Jamaica in 1687 to 1689 to raise new questions about the intersection of science and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world. The exhibition is guest-curated by former JCB…
For the full April preview, go here. Also see my report on the Kenneth Nebenzahl sale. In this post, note particularly the final sale, yesterday's Jacques Levy auction at Sotheby's New York.
PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF SALE 2276, APRIL 17, 2012:REVOLUTIONARY AMERICANA FROM THE ALLYN KELLOGG FORD COLLECTION / AUTOGRAPHSSale total: $2,084,031 with Buyer’s PremiumHammer total: $1,733,965Estimates for sale as a whole: $826,530 - $1,261,070We offered 436 lots; 418 sold (96% sell-through…
Catalogue Review: Jonathan A. Hill, #201'Tis the season to review the newest catalogue from New York City-based bookseller, Jonathan A. Hill. His spring catalogue celebrates (Mostly) British Agriculture and Husbandry of the 18th Century, i.e. (mostly) farming books in beautiful leather bindings.…
It was designed for the most famous dolls’ house in the world, with pages no bigger than postage stamps. But next month, 90 years after it was written, this tiny book, specially created for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House at Windsor Castle, will be reproduced on human scale. Thanks to a…
NEW YORK—Bonhams is pleased to announce the results of its Fine Books and Manuscripts auction that took place April 16, during the weekend of the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. This 419 lot auction brought in just under $950,000.
Paris, April 2012 - The forthcoming Photographs sale at Sotheby’s Paris, to be held in the Galerie Charpentier on 15 May will feature and exceptional album with 9 salt prints from waxed paper negatives produced by Gustave Le Gray during the Paris Salon in 1852. Estimated between ?? 240,000 and 280,…
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Zoe Mindell of The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company in Pennsylvania:
[ITHACA, NY] National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, hosted a Sunday, April 15th auction featuring a broad range of rare antique books, as well as a quantity of ephemera, a Civil War musket and Native American artifacts. Of particular note were rare first editions of early and modern titles…
