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WESTCHESTER, NY—(Mar. 3, 2014) The most important archive of historical paper to be offered in over a century will be offered en bloc by Eric Caren by private treaty sale. The Caren Collection is comprised of more than 200,000 items that document most every major U.S. and international…
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ 13th March Bibliophile sale includes a fine and diverse selection of bibliophilic material including a copy of Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis (1826) by George Sinclair, botanist and gardener to the 6th Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey from around 1807 until 1825.
A photograph depicting Sir Winston Churchill descending the gangplank of HMS Victory, during a January 1941 tour of the bomb-damaged Portsmo
Two books are believed to have set record auction prices yesterday at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of the Library of a Gentleman. One of these was Jacob Christian Schaeffer’s early work on fungi that sold for £24,180. Overall, the single owner collection of natural history books…
Evelyn Waugh’s annotated proof copy of a special limited edition of his 1932 novel Black Mischief, including an original hand drawn illustration by the author, is to be sold at Bonhams sale of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs in London on 19 March.
NEW ORLEANS (Feb. 27, 2013)—On Saturday, March 15, New Orleans Auction Galleries will offer an important collection of 16th century Persian manuscripts and volumes of verse from the Divan of Hafiz (lots 65-70) in its extensive two-day estates auction.
The collection includes five volumes and a…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The antique and art market roared in full force for the January 25th Case auction with several key milestones shattered. This included a record 3,200 registered bidders (in person, telephone, absentee, and online)—making it one of the most active auctions in the world for the month…
New York—Bidders competed actively for illustrations from beloved children’s classics, comic strips and well-known dust jacket artwork in Swann Galleries’ January 23 auction of 20th Century Illustration.
The last remaining archive of material relating to the work of Christy Brown, the Irish writer and painter whose life inspired the Oscar winning film, My left Foot, is to be sold at Bonhams sale of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs in London on 19 March. It is estimated at £30,000…
Kestenbaum & Company will conduct an auction of Fine Judaica on Wednesday, March 12th at 3:00 pm. The sale will be held at the company’s gallery located in New York City.
