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The Stockholm Book Fair runs this weekend March 14-15 in the city's Academy of Fine Arts.The…
“Exhibitors and participants from New York City to Reykjavik and Tokyo are convening to share their…
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The 2014 Harnett Biennial of American Prints is the eleventh competitive national exhibition organized by the University of Richmond Museums. Open to all forms of prints, the exhibition is presented as a celebration and examination of contemporary printmaking by artists throughout the United…
Letters, papers and photographs belonging to General Sir Miles Dempsey, one of the unsung heroes of Operation Overlord in June 1944 and of the subsequent campaign to liberate Europe, are to be sold at Bonhams Books, Atlases, Manuscripts and Photographs sale in London on June 18. Bonhams, the…
A Shakespeare First Folio that in 1623 cost the equivalent of 44 loaves of bread would, if sold today, buy up to five million loaves—enough to give every man, woman and child in the UK a slice of toast each.
A fine selection of original material by Dylan Thomas which has remained unseen for many years is to be offered at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs sale in London on June 18. It is being sold by The Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. This year is the centenary of the…
New York, NY, May 22, 2014—In the first two decades of the sixteenth century, in the French city of Tours, one of the greatest artists in the long history of medieval and Renaissance illumination created a series of works that represented a remarkable last flowering…
NEW YORK—On the heels of Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 6, at which paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir from the Estate of Huguette M. Clark fetched US$40.9 million, Christie’s is pleased to unveil further offerings from its June 18 auction of An…
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Early Printed, Medical & Scientific Books on May 1 offered scarce examples of incunabula, books on anatomy by Vesalius and others, Homer’s Works in the original Greek and more.
May 2014—Boxtel, The Netherlands. Which bookbinding technique to use, for which purpose? It is hard to find the answers to that question.
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of American Art on Thursday, June 12 features important unique works by artists such as Will Barnet, Paul Cadmus, John La Farge, Guy Wiggins and Andrew Wyeth.
A complete first edition set of the novels by the three Brontë sisters sold at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Important Books and Manuscripts sale on Monday 19th May.The unique collection was formed by American lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, founder of Chadbourne & Parke. Bidders…
