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New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Early Printed, Medical & Scientific Books on November 12 saw a wide range of material that performed well, illustrating the continuing demand for excellent examples of early&
SAN MARINO, Calif.—The oldest surviving copy of treatises by the great classical mathematician Archimedes will be on view at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in an exhibition that will document how the text was discovered and how new technology was employed to make it…
NEW YORK—Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on December 11 saw notable prices achieved in a diversity of categories.
A Book of Cats illustrated by Tsuguharu Foujita in 1930 more than doubled its pre-sale estimate to achieve $68,750. The remarkable book contained 20 full-page etched…
New Haven, Conn.—Scholarly detective work has revealed that an 1858 manuscript, housed at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is the earliest-known prison memoir written by an African-American.
At the 6 December Christie’s auction in New York, Bromer Booksellers purchased the Albion handpress on which William Morris printed his Kelmscott Press masterpiece, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The iron press, manufactured by Hopkinson & Cope in 1891, sold for $233,000, and Bromer was acting…
A book by Charles Darwin charting the expedition that led to his theory of evolution will join printed books, maps, works on paper and original artwork in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions sale of Antiquarian Books.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—A survey map, hand-drawn by Thomas Jefferson in 1800, has been discovered at Brandon Plantation, a US National Historic Landmark located outside Richmond, Virginia.
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the death of leading children’s author C.S.Lewis, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions are offering a first edition of his first published work, Spirits in Bondage. It will be sold as part of printed books, maps, works on paper and original artwork at the auctioneers…
New World, Old Maps is a rotating display of the acclaimed historic map collection formed by Dallas Pratt, co-founder of the American Museum in Britain, Bath, and celebrates the publication Mapping the New World—Renaissance Maps from the American Museum in Britain.
Sotheby’s London will offer for sale on 10th December 2013 the only copy of The Cuckoo’s Calling signed twice by the author—as both J.K. Rowling and her pseudonym Robert Galbraith (est. £2,000-£3,000). This unique first edition of the internationally bestselling crime novel written by J.K.
