NEW YORK—Bonhams offered for the first time this week an auction session dedicated to the sale of Russian Literature and Works on Paper. Among the 135 lots were Imperial Russian color-plate books and maps, original Constructivist designs, memorabilia of the Ballets Russe, avant-garde children’s…

On Tuesday, 10th July 2012, Sotheby’s London will offer an extraordinary mid-14th century manuscript written in Medieval Welsh — a language of near-legendary rarity — within its sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. Almost certainly brought to America by Welsh settlers in the 1700s, it ranks…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -- Today marks the launching of the new used-book blog, "Get a Spine" (getaspinebooks.com), which chronicles two book lovers' pursuit of used classic literature, and the people they meet and places they go while in search of works to add to their home library.

National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, will host a Sunday, June 24th auction featuring a broad range of rare antique books as well as groups of collectible ephemera.  Featured is a large collection of primarily antique works from the fields of geology and paleontology.  We will…

(June 15, 2012 - Palm Beach, FL) The Palm Beach Show Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Los Angeles Art Show from the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA). The acquisition that closed Wednesday includes the Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Modern & Contemporary and the Los…

New York, NY, June 14, 2012—In 1976 composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson redefined opera with the debut in Avignon, France, of Einstein on the Beach. The nearly five-hour, non-narrative work broke a host of operatic conventions and would become the most celebrated of the many…

A century ago, New York philanthropist Jacob H. Schiff purchased an initial collection of nearly 10,000 Hebrew books and pamphlets from bibliophile and book dealer Ephraim Deinard for the Library of Congress. This gift formed the nucleus of what is today one of the world’s greatest collections of…

Philadelphia, Thursday, June 14, 2012-- Coinciding with the nation's celebration of Flag Day on June 14th, Freeman's is proud to announce that a complete and extremely rare eighteenth-century battle flag of the Eighth Virginia Regiment under the command of Colonel Peter Muhlenberg (1746-1807) will…

June 13, 2012--Amherst. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, will kick off its 10th anniversary with a special exhibition that highlights its permanent collection for the very first time. Iconic Images: Ten Years of Collecting, which will run from October 30, 2012 through…

New York—On June 11, Bonhams hosted the Fine Writing Instruments: The Mel Wilmore Collection of Extraordinary Montblancs auction which featured the greatest single collection of fine Montblanc pens ever offered at auction. These spectacular examples belonged to Mel Wilmore who is described as one…