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The original typescript scroll first draft of Jack Kerouac's On The Road has become the most…
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NEW YORK—Bonhams sale Treasures from The Caren Archive on April 7 will feature one of the most significant $1 bills in American corporate history. The banknote was the first earned by the Edison Electric Light Company (a forerunner of GE) from the sale of electricity (est. $8,000-12,000).
Boston, MA—RR Auction is proud to present a collection from the estate of Roy Eldridge that will be featured in its upcoming online music themed auction in March.
An extraordinary cry of despair by the Irish writer Christy Brown, in a letter written days before his death in 1981, forms part of an archive of material by and about the author to be sold at Bonhams sale of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs in London on 19 March. The archive…
NEW YORK—On Thursday, March 27 Swann Galleries will offer a rich assortment of historical material related to the African experience in the Americas in their 19th annual auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana.
A selection of ecclesiastical books from the collection of clergyman and controversialist, Joseph Mendham, will be sold by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ on Thursday 20th March 2014.
On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 10am, Doyle New York will auction a rare and important Nebuchadnezzar II Babylonian cuneiform cylinder.
FALLS CHURCH, Va.—A pair of cartes de visite (or photographic “visiting cards”) showing Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad, other Civil War-era cartes de visite of soldiers (including Ulysses S.
The Library of Congress will celebrate the March 27 opening of its exhibition "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" with a day-long program that includes a lecture and a panel discussion on Persian manuscripts and the tradition of manuscript-making in Persian-speaking lands.
SAN FRANCISCO (March 10, 2014)—After a 17-month comprehensive conservation project, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to re-open the Salon Doré from the Hôtel de La Trémoille at the Legion of Honor on April 5, 2014. Developed by Martin Chapman, curator in charge of European…
New York—On Thursday, April 3, coinciding with the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Swann Galleries will auction Astronomy & Science Books from the Library of Martin C. Gutzwiller, the Swiss-American physicist best known for his work
