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New York — Exploring the thematic and visual diversity of the photographic medium, Swann Galleries’s auction of Photographs & Photobooks on Thursday, May 27 covers twentieth-century masters, as well as contemporary practitioners and items from the visual vernacular: albums, archives, and…
Dallas, TX – Beginning in June, Heritage Auctions will bring to market more than 5,000 high-grade Golden Age comic books that haven’t seen the light of day since they were purchased off newsstands in the 1940s.
Austin, TX — A digital collection of manuscripts and photographs related to the Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas held at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now online thanks to an international collaboration just in time for International Dylan Thomas Day on May 14.
Philadelphia — On Thursday, May 20, Freeman’s presents a Books and Manuscripts auction beginning at 12pm, featuring an impressive array of carefully selected material. The 131-lot auction will showcase a number of historically and culturally significant books, posters, prints, and letters,…
Wilton, CT – An autograph album from 1862 containing the signature of Abraham Lincoln and 226 members of his administration and Congress, a manuscript penned by Sir Isaac Newton with mathematical notes and calculations relating to Book III of his iconic scientific work Principia, and a one-…
Boston — RR Auction is proud to present the Einstein Archives of Ludwik Silberstein—a remarkable collection of correspondence focused on the theory of relativity.
The sale is highlighted by a rare letter in which Einstein writes his famous equation, "E = mc2," the only known example in…
Dallas, TX – A Columbia Law School textbook once owned and full of notes by one of the unquestioned giants of the U.S. legal system will occupy a new shelf after it is sold in Heritage Auctions’ Manuscripts Auction May 19.
London – Leonardo da Vinci’s "Head of a Bear" will be offered for sale at Christie’s in London as a highlight lot in the Exceptional Sale, taking place live on 8 July.
Dallas, TX – Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s Beat-up Boy, Football Hero, which appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on Nov. 21, 1914, sold Friday for $4.12 million, shattering the previous world record for a work by the influential illustrator.
London — A collection of unseen letters, drawings, work permits and photos relating to The Beatles time in Hamburg in 1962 and their relationship with Astrid Kirchherr achieved spectacular results at Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia Sale, Knightsbridge on 5 May.
All of the 17-lot Collection…
