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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the evolution of technology and its impact on labor…
The current exhibition at The New York Historical focuses on the development of the ideas of the…
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Los Angeles, California—Van Eaton Galleries, one of the world’s premier   animation artwork and collectibles galleries located in Sherman Oaks, California, has announced a rare exhibit and auction, “Collecting Disneyland.” The auction will take
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Boston—Christie's announces a valuation day of books and manuscripts in Boston for one-day only on Friday, November 13.  Gretchen Hause, Christie's Books and Manuscripts specialist, welcomes the public to Christie's Boston Regional Office located at 118 Newbury Street, Boston, MA from 10am to…
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Paris, October 2015—Sotheby’s dispersed Stéphane Mallarmé's library: a rare and perfectly preserved collection unveiled to the public for the first time. Numerous admirers of the "prince of poets "did battle for the 283 lots in this highly moving collection: an immersion in the private world of a…
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London—Roseberys 31 October Art & Antique auction will feature a dedicated selection of rare and collectable books.
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Jacob Riis (1849-1914), a pioneering newspaper reporter and social reformer in New York at the turn of the 20th century, is the focus of a new book and exhibitions at four venues in the U.S. and Denmark. His photographs of the city’s slums illustrated the plight of impoverished residents and…
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LOS ANGELES, October 13, 2015—The 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on October 29. It is the only 13th Nobel Prize to go under the hammer. Interested bidders may participate in the auction online.
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LONDON Maddox Street—The collection of 244 lots is one of the largest of its type to be auctioned in the UK and will be sold at Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday 29t
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA, October 12, 2015—Lifestyle blog Sweet Little Luxuries shows women how to create happiness every day by styling a lovely life and, moreover published Laugh, Love, Lick Chocolate Frosting: Your Adventure to Happiness to guide women. One of the original handwritten, hand-…
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New York—On October 27, 2015, Swann Galleries' Books & Manuscripts department will offer Early Printed & Medical Books, featuring Bibles, incunabula, early grammars and dictionaries of exotic languages, and works on missionary travel and Eastern Church history and l
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American fiction has spun few characters as troubling as Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Lolita.