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The André Meyer Musical CollectionThe First Sale at Sotheby’s France devoted entirely to Music totals ??3.3 million / $4.3 million Paris, 17 October 2012: This exceptional collection, running to nearly 500 lots, brought a total of ??3,327,655 ($4.335.570) to establish the most important sale of…
October 16, 2012—The Library of Congress will debut a unique new blog to complement its exhibition, “The Civil War in America,” which opens Nov. 12. The blog will help chronicle the sacrifices and accomplishments of those—from both the North and South—whose lives were lost or affected by the events…
NEW YORK — The stalwarts of Illustration art, across all aspects of the genre, showed their mettle once again on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America) in Heritage Auction’s $3.3+ million Illustration Art Signature® Auction, Heritage’s most successful…
(NEW ORLEANS, LA) — New Orleans Auction Galleries is proud to announce another tremendously successful auction. Notable highlights from the two-day event include a fine handcrafted Baccarat full-lead crystal forty-eight light chandelier that sold for $98,400, a record for New Orleans Auction…
On October 25th, 2012, PBA Galleries in San Francisco will offer at auction a remarkable collection of books, manuscripts, pamphlets and other material relating to the early history of California, its ranchos, and land ownership. The library of the late John C. Broome, of Fresno, California,…
(Philadelphia, Pa) October 12, 2012 - Auctions love a mystery... Controversy has long surrounded the portrait of composer Johann Sebastian Bach, attributed to the unsung painter Elias Gottlob Haussmann. The top lot in Freeman's October 'International Sales,' it hammered in, after a vigorous…
San Francisco—The Fine Books and Manuscripts sale at Bonhams in San Francisco, held October 10 and simulcast to New York, brought a successful $1,338,263.
The Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the organisers of the 22nd Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair, are delighted to announce that they have more exhibitors than ever before taking part in the fair which will take place over two days on Friday, November 2 and Saturday, November 3, 2012 in the…
New York, NY, October 10, 2012 —The Tale of Peter Rabbit and other books by Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) have become classics of children’s literature and represent one of the most successful publishing enterprises in the history of the British book trade. Yet Peter Rabbit began not as a…
New York—Swann Galleries’ October 2 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana was one of the largest and most successful Americana auctions Swann has held, bringing in more than $840,000-well above the high estimate, and almost twice the low estimate. In all, 93 percent of the lots were sold.
