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The Chelsea Rare Book Fair returns to the Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road in London on…
More than 70 Bibles and devotional works from from the Estate of Robert Funk will go under the…
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DALLAS—The only known copy of the U.S.
Just weeks after the long-anticipated discovery of one of Sir John Franklin’s lost ships the British Library looks back on almost 400 years of a fascination with the fabled Northwest Passage.
As the world celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Dylan Thomas, Sotheby’s announces the most exciting manuscript discovery since his death in 1953.
A unique edition of François Levaillant’s Histoire Naturelle des oiseaux d’Afrique, with eighteen original watercolour illustrations for the dedicatee, Jacob Temminck, is to be auctioned at Bonhams Travel & Exploration sale in Knightsbridge, London, on 3 December, 2014. The work, in six volumes…
DALLAS—Two historical Americana auctions held Nov. 8 at Heritage Auctions brought a combined $703,328 Nov. 8 in Dallas as collectors sought fresh-to-market-finds with impeccable provenance. An 1833 rice paper print of The Declaration of Independence from William J.
New York—On Thursday, December 4 Swann Galleries will conduct an eclectic auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books featuring early botanicals, Audubon plates, exquisite plate books and rare maps.
LONDON, 13 November 2014—Throughout history, books have disseminated the ideas and discoveries of the world’s most influential thinkers. Whether focused on science, technology, religion, family or society, books have always had the capacity to change the way we think.
DALLAS—Water Lilies with Cloud, 1992, presented as part of a mini-retrospective of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, sold for $341,000 in Heritage Auctions' $5.5 million Modern & Contemporary Art Signature® Auction in Dallas. The Nov.
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on Tuesday, November 25 features important material on the American Revolution, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, M
A collection of seventy-five signed letters sent by John Ruskin, including thirty-seven still unpublished, were sold at Bonhams ‘
