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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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London—The Bloomsbury two-day Summer Book Sale was a feast of rare books and first editions. Day one offered impressive collections of Children’s and illustrated work, Conchology, Maps, Witchcraft and Aristotelian literature.
The impressive selection of books on offer at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ 11th September Bibliophile sale include a superb compendium of Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture by John Burley Waring, the first American Edition, second state of
September 2, 2014—New York, NY—The Folio Society announced today that the only complete collection of its Letterpress Shakespeare editions outside of the United Kingdom, will be on display to the public at the Center for Fiction through the end of the year.
The Center for Fiction (www.…
A sheet of blotting paper bearing imprints of the signatures of Admiral Wemyss and Marshal Foch on the Armistice document which ended the First World War on 11 November 1918 is to be sold at Bonhams First World War Centenary Sale in London on 1 October. It is estimated at £20,000-30,000.
New York, NY, September 2, 2014—Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) was the leading figure of a group of nineteenth-century French artists who chose the wooded landscape of the Forest of Fontainebleau as their subject and would forever be known to art history as the Barbizon School. Decades before…
FALLS CHURCH, Va.—Waverly Rare Books will offer nearly 550 lots of antique and highly collectible maps, items from the Burchuk-Warden Rare Music Collection, many fine first-edition books, photographs and ambrotypes (some of them Civil War-era), plus posters and prints
Doyle New York is honored to auction El Morocco: The John Perona Collection on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 10am. This landmark sale comprises paintings, furniture and decorations from Mr.
Auction #37 was successfully concluded on 28th August 2014 with particularly brisk bidding. Although a South African operation set up in 2010, over 50% of the site’s users are now based in the UK, the US and the rest of the world. Antiquarianauctions.com is an online auction site dedicated to…
NORTHAMPTON, MA—OCTOBER 12, 2014—Flamingo Eventz and the Southern New Englan
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced at the Library of Congress National Book Festival the winners of the 2014 Library of Congress Literacy Awards, a program originated and sponsored by philanthropist David M. Rubenstein.
The recipients are as follows.
