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DALLAS—A discarded Frankenstein movie poster—the only 6-foot example from the 1931 Universal horror classic known to
New York—After a two-day, 20-hour marathon auction at Bonhams New York, all 740 lots of the Lauren Bacall Collection sold, totaling $3.64m.
With two bronze sculptures by British artist, Henry Moore, that had sold in November’s Impressionist and Modern auction, the final result for the entire Lauren…
On April 15, 2015 at 10am, Doyle New York will
hold an auction of Rare Books, Maps & Autographs. Highlighting the
sale is an important archive of 25 love letters written by Mexican
artist Frida Kahlo to Jose Bartoli, a Spanish émigré artist whom she met
in New York.
New Haven, Conn—In 1973, the nature of television programming changed with the broadcast of the 12-episode PBS series, An American Family. Detailing the daily life of the Loud Family of Santa Barbara, California, the program was a new type of documentary aimed at examining the contemporary family.…
From Sydney to Tokyo to Cape T own, from Moscow, London and all the major European capitals to New York, Washington, Chicago and the Pacific Northwest of the United States ILA
New York—It was a white glove sale for Day 1 of the Lauren Bacall Collection. Every lot sold as thousands of bidders participated in the first installment of the most anticipated auction of the season, the Lauren Bacall Collection, which took place on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The saleroom remained…
On
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 10am, Doyle New York will hold an auction
of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps.
A handsome and complete copy of one of the earliest English publications to explain and illustrate the tricks and conjuring previously deemed magic as mere ‘hocus pocus’.
The lengthy title demonstrates how early texts on magic grew out of earlier ‘books of secrets’ and household receipt (i.e.…
A single manuscript page written and signed by John Shipp, the first veterinary surgeon to be commissioned into the British Army, with a list of the horses of the 23rd Light Dragoons injured at the Battle of Waterloo. Written only 2 days after the battle, at Brussels, it includes comments such…
The Library of Congress has acquired 540 rare and historic Civil War stereographs from the Robin G. Stanford Collection. The first 77 images are now online, including 12 stereographs of President Lincoln’s funeral procession through several cities and 65 images by Southern photographers showing…
