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Five years after the inaugural sale, the fourth and final The Poetic Library of Jean Paul Barbier-…
A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early…
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For natural history print collectors, the auction includes a unique proof copy of Audubon’s Great Blue Heron, from The Birds of America ($80,000-$120,000). Other Audubon prints from The Birds of America include The Large Billed Puffin, Wilson’s Phalarope, and Sooty Tern, and from the Quadrupeds of…
BALTIMORE - The first offerings from “The Black Swamp Find” of 1910 E98 baseball cards - the best near “Set of 30” ever found (realized: $286,800), the finest known Honus Wagner card of its kind (realized: $239,000) and the color variations set (realized: $40,332) - brought $566,132 combined on Aug…
New York, NY, August 2, 2012—The Morgan Library & Museum has announced that it will display recent acquisitions during select times throughout the year, providing the public with more opportunities to enjoy objects from across the museum’s collections. On view now are three notable works,…
New York, NY - July 2012 - An unprecedented auction of hundreds of original paintings, drawings and photographs by Roger Tory Peterson (1908 - 1996) will be conducted by Guernsey’s on September 8th at New York City’s prestigious Arader Gallery, located at 1016 Madison Avenue.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Southern Festival of Books announces a lineup of bestselling and award-winning authors set to headline the twenty-fourth Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Oct. 12-14. The roster includes Katherine Patterson, Junot Diaz, Gillian Flynn, R.L. Stine, AJ Jacobs, Judith…
(Boston, Massachusetts, July 31, 2012): A gift of $150,000 from Trustee Emeritus Caleb Loring, Jr., will fund the second phase of the Boston Athenæum’s “Confederate Access Project.” The gift will allow the Athenæum to conserve and digitize nearly 4,000 books and archival documents printed in the…
BEVERLY HILLS - The multi-million dollar Doug Schmell/PedigreeComics.com Collection, featuring the single greatest grouping of Silver Age Marvel CGC #1 Registry sets ever assembled, realized more than $3.94 million on July 26 as the centerpiece of the vintage comic book offerings in Heritage…
The Bibliographical Society in conjunction with the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the publication of an important new online reference work for book history. The British Armorial Bindings Database, begun by John Morris and continued by Philip Oldfield, is now available on the…
From 15 September 2012, the Museum Plantin-Moretus presents The Master’s Soul: Antwerp drawings from Rubens to Panamarenko. Eleven guest curators, including Dries Van Noten, Adriaan Raemdonck, illustrator-cartoonist Benoît and illustrator Kaatje Vermeire, among others, made a selection of the most…
The Library of Congress Junior Fellows Summer Interns today presented
more than 130 items from 32 unique collections housed in more than 20
Library divisions. The display provides the opportunity for fellows to
discuss the historic significance of the collection items they have
researched,…
