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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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New York—On October 22, 2015, Swann Galleries’ Books & Manuscripts department will offer Autographs, featuring presidential autographs, many from the Forbes Collection.
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AntiquarianAuctions.com is an online auction site dedicated to the sale of rare and out-of print books, maps & prints, documents, letters, ephemera and vintage photography. All pricing is done in US$. No buyer’s premium is charged. HISTORY  Lot 16 MACHIAVELLI. NICCOLO.
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LONDON Maddox Street—A letter signed by Tolkien’s secretary revealing the identity of Estella Bolger, the wife of one of Frodo’s principal companions Merry Brandybuck, is to be auctioned in London by Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday 22nd October.
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The Library of Congress Center for the Book and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) announce the relocation of the Texas Center for the Book to a new home at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin, Texas. One of 52 centers affiliated with the Center for the…
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Les Enluminures is pleased to announce the launch of a new version of its text manuscripts website. Inaugurated thirteen years ago, in 2002, www.textmanuscripts.com is unique on the internet. It presents for sale an exceptionally large number of mostly medieval manuscripts distinguished by the…
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ITHACA, NY—National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.  This catalog features rare, antique and decorative books as well as select additions of ephemera, artwork and collectibles.  This catalog also includes our next session from a…
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DALLAS—A rare and important jugate pinback button featuring Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge as they were in 1920 sold for $25,000 against a $10,000 estimate in Heritage Auctions’ presentation of Part III of the Merrill C. Berman Collection of Americana & Political…
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(Amherst, MA—October 1, 2015)  On September 24, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art announced its largest ever gift to the endowment at its annual Carle Honors fundraiser in New York City. Chairman Christopher B. Milne told the crowd of 300 guests that the new Patricia Morrison McDonald…
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Chicago, IL (September 2015)—Antique dealers, art gallerists, estate sale professionals, and scholars considering adding appraising to their professional skillset should look no further than the International Society of Appraisers’ (ISA) intensive, week-long, specialized foundation survey courses…
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Paris, September 2015—After the success of its comic strip sale in the spring*, Sotheby’s is delighted to be selling one of the world's largest collection of strip cartoons, belonging to the Belgian lover of