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NEW YORK, NY--Nine institutions in New York City and Westchester have been awarded grant funding to support a range of digitization projects designed to expand access to important collections of historical and rare materials. Recipients of the 2011 Digital METRO New York (DMNY) grants, totaling…
London -- Sotheby's is delighted to announce the sale of a selection of exceptional works in its English Literature, History Private Press, Children’s Books & Illustrations auction on Thursday, 15 December 2011. The sale, which comprises 163 lots, is expected to raise in excess of £1.5 million…
30 November 2011 - Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that it will hold an auction of property from the estate of celebrated New York philanthropist and patron of the arts, Brooke Astor. The sale, which will take place on 19 April 2012, will comprise jewelry and fine & decorative art from Mrs.…
DALLAS, TX - Heritage Auctions has announced that, effective Jan. 1, 2012, the structure of its Buyer’s Premium (BP) will be changing in several of its categories. While 13 of the company’s 33 categories will remain at 19.5% or 15%, the rest of the Heritage categories will implement the change.
LONG BEACH, CA - ABC has announced that it will air The Great Big American Auction, starring Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, one of America's leading reality TV personalities, and featuring exclusively Heritage Auctions’ experts, auction services and staff, in a very special…
WELLESLEY, Mass. - The Davis Museum at Wellesley College will open an exhibition that explores the French roots of American Lithography on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. With a French Accent: French and American Lithography Before 1860 will include about fifty French and American prints from the…
ITHACA, NY] National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, hosted a Sunday, November 20th auction featuring a broad range of rare antique and vintage books, as well as a fine array of artwork, maps, and ephemera. Highlights of this auction included several personal libraries of scholarly books…
Kestenbaum & Company will conduct an auction of Fine Judaica on Thursday, December 8 at 3:00 pm. The sale will be held at the company’s gallery at 242 West 30 Street in New York City. Buyers will be afforded an opportunity to select from an extensive selection of Printed Books, Manuscripts,…
EAST HANOVER, NJ - DECEMBER 2 & 3, 2011: Garry Austin of Austin’s Antiquarian Books & Tina Bruno of Flamingo Eventz, LLC have reached an agreement for Flamingo to assume management and operation of this very popular and long-running show. Now in its 20th year, this has become one of the…
On 13th December 2011 Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in New York will include The Jean-Vounder Davis Collection of the Raymond Chandler Library -a unique group of books from the collection of one of America’s greatest detective fiction writers. Many of the titles are personalized by the…
