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NEW YORK - With a price worthy of its historic stature, a recently discovered 1823 printing of the Declaration of Independence, painstakingly engraved and printed by William Stone to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the founding of The United States, sold for $597,500, more than doubling its’ pre-…
Los Angeles - Bonhams is pleased offer several artworks from the Serendipity Bookstore in Berkeley, CA on May 21 during its 'Made in California: Post-War & Contemporary Art' auction. Highlights from the collection will include "Untitled (Magic Mountain)," 1955 (est. $10,000-15,000) by noted San…
(Amherst, MA) The Eric Carle Museum is pleased to announce it will host a selection of Lucy Cousins’ work called: Our British Cousins: The Magical Art of Maisy and Friends beginning May 22nd and running through November 25th.??
Lloyd Library and Museum (LLM) is pleased to announce: "View: Ways of Seeing"May 5-August 3, 2012Opening reception-Saturday, May 5, 2012, 4-7 p.m.Remarks on John Uri Lloyd, Japan, and Cincinnati begin at 4:30 p.m.Catered Reception follows
[ITHACA, NY] National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, will host a Sunday, April 15th auction featuring a broad range of rare antique books, as well as a quantity of ephemera, a Civil War musket and Native American artifacts. Books offered include rare first editions of early and modern titles…
PARIS--For more than half a century the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair has attracted thousands of book collectors and connoisseurs to see important acquisitions presented by as many as 200 of the world’s most renowned dealers in rare and collectible books and manuscripts.
Through a Papermaker’s Eye: Artists’ Books from the Dieu Donné Collection of Susan Gosin, opening at the Grolier Club’s second floor gallery on April 26, showcases thirty-five years of collecting and creating limited edition books featuring the unique aspects of hand papermaking, such as…
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - April 5, 2012 - Skinner, Inc., a leading full-service auctioneer and appraiser of antiques and fine art, announces Devon Gray as the Director of Fine Books & Manuscripts. Gray brings more than 20 years experience as an expert in early books to her new role at Skinner, and…
(Boston, Massachusetts) “George Deem: The Art of Art History” opens to the public at the Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery of the Boston Athenæum on April 11, 2012. Deem, best known for his breathtakingly vivid re-workings of classic images from art history, died in 2008 at age 75, after a fifty-year…
AUSTIN, Texas—Thomas Smith (b. 1938), visual effect producer for such films as "Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial" (1982), has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
