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NEW YORK—Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts sale on December 11 will feature a superb first edition copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, one of only two known copies signed and inscribed by both the author, L Frank Baum, and the illustrator, William Wallace Denslow (est. $80,000-120,000). Printed…
NEW YORK—Bonhams will offer two extraordinarily rare 1790 newspaper clippings in the inaugural Judaica sale on December 10, documenting President George Washington's visit to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI, the oldest surviving Jewish Synagogue building in North America (est. $80,000-100,000).…
One of the most important albums of drawings by the celebrated 18th century caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson, Comparative Anatomy Resemblances between the Countenances of Men and Beasts (1822), sold for an outstanding £57,600 in a Dreweatts & Bloomsbury’s auction, The Library of a Gentleman…
Bentonville, AR—A temporary exhibition featuring 101 art works by American and European Modernists, as well as African art, opens Nov.
This year Russia is celebrating a grand jubilee in its history—four hundred years since Mikhail Romanov, the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, ascended to the th
LOS ANGELES—From February 7-9, 2014, thousands of book lovers, rare book dealers, and scholars will converge at the Pasadena Convention Center for the 47th California International Antiquarian Book Fair.
The only known handwritten copy of Joy Bells, one of Siegfried Sassoon’s most sardonic anti-war poems, is to be sold at Bonhams sale of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs in London on 12 November. It is estimated at £1,500-2,000.
FALLS CHURCH, Va.—Waverly’s of suburban Washington, D.C., will offer connoisseurs 450 lots of rare books, maps, atlases and ephemera in a well-rounded November 21st catalog auction.
DALLAS—Norman Rockwell’s masterpiece, full-length portrait The Song of Bernadette realized a stunning $605,000 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $3.7+ million Illustration Art Auction event. Records were set for scores of artists across Classic and Golden Age Art, Science Fiction, and Pulp genres, as sell…
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Autographs on Tuesday, November 26 offers an exceptional collection of musician autographs—the likes of which are rarely seen at auction—in addition to a strong section of Americana, letters from Albert Einstein as he worked
