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The annual Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript African Americana sales was launched in March…
The Bodleian Libraries’ Season of the Natural World is a slate of exhibitions inspired by the world…
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SOUTHAMPTON, Pa.—On Friday, Feb. 28, the suburban Philadelphia auction house Stephenson’s will present a 202-lot boutique auction featuring the personal library of revered comic book pioneer M.C.
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New York—On Thursday, March 6, Swann Galleries will conduct a large and diverse auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings that offers exceptional 19th- and 20th-century works of art by American
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Los Angeles—At the Bonhams auction of Fine Books & Manuscripts on February 10 in Los Angeles, an extremely rare and complete copy of William Hamilton and Pierre François Hugues d'Hancarville's Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities sold for $106,250, surpassing its $75,000-100,000…
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NEW YORK—On February 27, Swann Galleries will offer a two-part sale of Fine Photographs with a separate catalogue devoted to The Library of Bill Diodato, which comprises more than 250 lots of photobooks and fine art photographs by some of the most important artists of the last century,
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NEW YORK—Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts sale on April 7, Treasures from The Caren Archive, will feature a reward poster issued in the aftermath of the first daylight bank robbery in U.S. history, an audacious raid made doubly significant by its being the first heist accredited to legendary…
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A fine selection of books from the library of a south-coast Gentleman will be offered in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions' sale on Thursday 27th February. Displaying the owner's passion for natural history, the collection includes an extremely rare and complete hand-coloured florilegium of…
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An unpublished letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to his publishers about the difficulties of completing The Return of the King, the third and final part of The Lord of the Rings, is to be offered at Bonhams sale of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs in London on 19 March. It is estimated…
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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…
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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
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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