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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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New York—Topping Swann Galleries’ June 19 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature was a first American edition of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick or, The Whale—with white endpapers—New York, 1851, which brought $4
THE FOLIO PRIZE, sponsored by The Folio Society, has today announced the panel of judges for the second year of the prize, which will be awarded in March 2015. William Fiennes has been drawn as Chair of a jury made up of fellow international writers Rachel Cooke, Mohsin Hamid, A. M. Homes and…
YORKTOWN, Va., July 1, 2014—A rare newspaper printing of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a precursor of the United States Declaration of Independence, has been acquired for the future American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, replacing the Yorktown Victory Center by late 2016. The June 12,…
The original chalk drawings of two lost paintings by American portrait and history painter, Benjamin West, surface at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Works on Paper on Thursday 24th July 2014.
The black chalk on buff paper of Moses, 1787, [Lot 12] and…
BOSTON, MA.—June 27, 2014—Sinatra’s first New Jersey’s driver’s license sold for $15,757 last night, according to Boston, MA-based auction house RR Auction.
A significant archive of 28 charters and deeds granting gifts of land and property in West Yorkshire to the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitallers is being auctioned at Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions' Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th July 2014. Est…
New York—Swann Galleries’ June 12 auction of American Art was the highest-grossing sale in this category ever—and also the first American Art auction at Swann to bring in more than $1 million—the sale total was $1,020,970*.
New York City will welcome nearly 30 of the world’s leading dealers in Master Drawings from January 24 through January 31 when the ninth edition of MASTER DRAWINGS NEW YORK (www.masterdrawingsinnewyork.com) hosts themed exhibitions in more than two dozen Upper East Side galleries between East 63rd…
Washington, DC—Contrary to popular belief, English Renaissance heralds did not play trumpets. Think of them as the earliest professional brand consultants, genealogists, and trademark protectors. They had the singular power to bestow enduring and easily recognizable symbols of status and honor upon…
Paris—During the first half of 2014, Artcurial realised a sales total of 105 M?? / 142 M$, up 14.6% on the same period in 2013, with some 61 sales organised across twenty different specialist fields.
