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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early…
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with…
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PARIS--At The 2013 Winter Antiques Show in New York January 25 - February 3rd Les Enluminures (www.lesenluminures.com) gallery of Paris, New York and Chicago will be showing an extraordinary array of masterworks created between 1300 and the mid 16th century in Spain, Italy and the…
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce the publication of Birds, a limited edition volume featuring bird drawings by Billy Sullivan and an essay by Margaret Atwood.
November 2012 (Philadelphia, Pa) - How rare? This is the oldest example of a Color for the Virginia Line and likely the last that will ever come to auction. It is estimated to go for between $400,000 and $600,000, but it's anybody's guess, as a flag of this historical significance is the rarest of…
November 9, 2012Librarian of Congress: Books Are Imperative to an Informed Democracy; Singapore To Host 2013 SummitThe Library of Congress on December 6 and 7 will host the first International Summit of the Book, a gathering of leaders in academia, libraries, culture and technology to debate and…
NEW YORK - Images by the giants of 20th century photography, including Children at a Puppet Theater by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Panamint’s Death Valley by Edward Weston, and Horst’s Corset, Paris, 1939, are expected to lead Heritage Auction’s Nov. 17 Photographs Signature® Auction, scheduled to take…
An important George Washington letter achieved a stunning $362,500 at Doyle New York’s November 5, 2012 auction of Rare Books and Autographs. Purchased by a private collector, the letter far surpassed its pre-sale estimate of $80,000-100,000. It was the fourth highest price fetched at auction for a…
DALLAS - A one-of-a-kind 1970 autograph by astronaut Neil Armstrong, sold by a retired Peoria, IL newspaper editor, realized $38,838, almost five times its’ pre-auction estimate, as part of a $1+ million Space Exploration memorabilia event at Heritage Auctions on Nov. 2, 2012.
Boston, MA - November, 2012. Smith&Press completes the only known Latin to English Translation of the Nuremberg Chronicle with a positive review from ALA Choice Magazine.
Lynge & Søn and Sokol Books Ltd are pleased to present Beauty & Brains, a joint exhibition of fine printed books and manuscripts, featuring treasures of literature, history, science, religion, and philosophy, and some of the finest examples of illustration and design. Exhibition highlights…
San Francisco—Bonhams is proud to present its sale “The Xi’an Incident: The Papers of Hyland “Bud” Lyon,” December 11 in San Francisco. The Xi’an Incident (December 12-24, 1936) was a pivotal moment in modern Chinese history, when a brave Nationalist Chinese General, Zhang Xueliang [1901-2001…
