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Robinson Street Books has acquired the William B. Provine (emeritus professor of the history of biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University), (duplicate) collection of offprints. Spanning 300 years of important scientific discovery it contains important…
New York—Swann Galleries' annual February auction of Vintage Posters—held this year on Tuesday, February 25—offers a diverse selection of images, from exquisite Art Nouveau designs by Alpho
A rare contemporary portrait of the explorer Sir Francis Drake, the first dollar earned by Thomas Edison’s trailblazing electric company, and a mug shot of the outlaw Butch Cassidy issued by the famed Pinkerton Detective Agency are just some items on o
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 art, ephemera, and collectibles. Highlighted is another session from the estate of Norman Kane…
New Haven, Conn.—The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired two “Tyndale Bibles”—the first printed English translations of biblical texts—which are among the rarest and most influential works in the English language.
Gauguin: Metamorphoses is the first major monographic exhibition on Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903) ever presented at MoMA, and the first major exhibition to focus particularly on the artist’s rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings and their relationship to his paintings and his…
A signed memo by the then Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, about his handling of the Welsh miners’ strike in November 1910 is to be sold at Bonhams sale of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs in London on 19 March. It is estimated at £1,000-1,500.
New York, NY, February 4, 2014—For a small but influential group of European and American artists engaged with the art of the book, the medium of the woodcut became an inspiration for stylistically diverse and provocative works in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century.
DALLAS—The earliest Superman cover art known to exist—Fred Guardineer’s thrilling visage of the Man of Steel from Action Comics #15—may bring $200,000+ in Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 20-22 Vintage Comics Signature® Auction in New York.
NEW YORK—Bonhams April 7 Fine Books & Manuscripts sale Treasures from The Caren Archive will feature an autographed personal letter written by Titanic survivor and first class passenger Emily Ryerson in which she recounts her deck-side conversation with White Star Line Chairman J Bruce Ismay as…
