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Fairfield, ME—James D. Julia, Inc. one of the nation's top ten antique auction houses, is pleased to announce the launch of their newly designed and updated website, which went live January 18, 2014. This essential resource for anyone in the antiques and auctions communities can be found online by…
Amherst, N.H —An incredibly rare Beatles signed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album sold for $175,698 on Wednesday, according to Amherst, NH-based auction house RR Auction.
The U.K. Parlophone Records first issue mono pressing of the album, signed on the full-color gatefold in dark…
Christie’s is honored to confirm it has been entrusted with the sale of property from the Clark Family Collection. In the spring of 2012, Christie’s International successfully sold jewelry and real estate from the Estate of Huguette M. Clark on behalf of the Honorable Ethel J. Griffin, New York…
Amherst, MA (January 2014)—The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is proud to present an exhibition featuring the work of Bernard Waber, author and illustrator of more than thirty picture books including Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, Fast Food! Gulp! Gulp!, Lorenzo, and The House on East 88th Street.…
NEW YORK—On Thursday, February 13, Swann Galleries’ African-American Fine Art department will offer a curated auction titled Shadows Uplifted, which highlights the development of African-American artists in the 19th century and early 20th c
SAN MARINO, Calif.—The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has acquired an extensive collection of rare books and manuscripts by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), considered one of the greatest English prose satirists of the 20th century. The collection establishes The Huntington as…
Believed to be the largest in the world, a collection of Harp music is to be offered alongside antiquarian books and works on paper in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ first Bibliophile sale of 2014 on Thursday 23rd January.
January 15, 2014—BENTONVILLE, AR—Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired a rare Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house, known as the Bachman Wilson House, located in the Borough of Millstone in Somerset County, N.J.
LOS ANGELES (January 14, 2014)—In commemoration of the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth in 2014, the
For Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the biggest values in life were neither the state finances nor his immense private property, but the books of his personal library. Heinrich Heine regarded the world of books as the most powerful universe mankind ever created. And for Jorge Luis Borges the library…
