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New York, NY, April 2012— Beginning May 18, The Morgan Library & Museum will unveil an extraordinary exhibition of drawings and related material that brings to life the dynamic artistic and cultural milieu of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice. The first exhibition to focus on the Morgan's…
San Francisco—Bonhams is pleased to announce a sales total of $504,332 from its Period Art & Design sale, April 15-16 in San Francisco. The auction featured Property from Serendipity Books Part II: Literature and Poetry, and a strong selection of European paintings and 20th century designs,…
The British Library has announced that it has successfully acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel, a miraculously well-preserved seventh-century manuscript that is the oldest European book to survive fully intact and therefore one of the world’s most important books. ????The £9 million purchase price for…
Earlier this week Christie's unveiled an extraordinary fifteenth-century Jewish festival prayerbook--an illuminated Mahzor containing 442 vellum leaves. I had the pleasure of seeing this book in New York last week, and the illustrations seem as bold and bright as they day they were created, c. 1490…
On 20 April 2012 Sotheby’s will offer A First Edition Japanese Vellum copy of Oscar Wilde’s greatest work, The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People in the sale of The Library of Jacques Levy. Mr. Levy acquired the piece in 1946 and it has remained in his collection since…
NEW YORK - A 1982 gelatin silver print of Nastassia Kinski and the Serpent, 1981 by famed photographer Richard Avedon is expected to bring $50,000+ when it comes to auction on May 1 in New York as part of Heritage Auctions’ Photographs Signature® Auction, taking place at the Fletcher-Sinclair…
Over the ages, thousands of books have been burned. But how many of them have been smoked?
Last year I vowed to get to the 'Shadow Show' earlier, and this year I did it. The so-called Shadow Show, or Manhattan Vintage Books & Ephemera Fair, run by Flamingo Eventz, happens downtown and has that great downtown accessibility to it. I vowed to get there at 9 a.m. on Saturday because last…
What I like most about the New York Antiquarian Book Fair is putting faces to names I email, Facebook, and tweet to on a daily basis. And of course, each one of those people can show and tell you something interesting. I spent five hours on the floor yesterday, and though I left empty-handed, my…
