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November 7 to December 6, 2013 at Les Enluminures, New York—Featuring more than 20 Books of Hours dating from the 14th- through to the 16th- centuries, Les Enluminures’ fall exhibition will highlight important stages within the evolution of Books of Hours as perennial “best-sellers” within the…
Los Angeles—The greatest minds in mathematics and science made a strong impact in the Books and Manuscripts sale at Bonhams in Los Angeles on October 16. Some of the key highlights included a letter from Albert Einstein, a first edition of Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems and a signed…
NEW YORK—An unprecedented trove of material relating to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most famous and influential name in America’s storied Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s realized more than $130,000 on Oct. 17 at Heritage Auctions in New York as part of the company’s…
This year's Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair will offer visitors an excellent opportunity to find the perfect antiquarian book among thousands brought to the Chelsea Old Town Hall by the 82 expert booksellers. The fair is open to the public on Friday, 1st to Saturday, 2nd November 2013.
The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography, given every fourth year to the most outstanding scholarly book about books and worth $10,000, is one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of bibliography.
BOSTON, MA — The annual fall gathering for booklovers, the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, will return to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s beautiful Back Bay, November 15-17, 2013. The offerings are wide and diverse from over 120 dealers from the United States, England,…
One of the very few representations of Dorothy Wordsworth as a young woman is to be sold at Bonhams sale of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs in London on 12 November. It is estimated at £5,000-10,000.
(CHICAGO — October 15, 2013) Holiday shoppers looking to delight the booklovers in their lives can purchase A Journey Through Literary America and support the American Writers Museum Foundation with their gift.
New York—Swann Galleries will conduct two significant auctions six days apart, with Old Master Through Modern Prints on October 30, and The Armory Show at 100 on November 5.
In the nineteenth century the Mandan homelands didn’t extend as far as New York, but now, courtesy of London book dealers, Shapero Rare Books, the Mandan from North Dakota will be in New York in November in the shape of the beautiful artwork of Swiss-born Karl Bodmer, who depicted these proud…
