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August 9, 2010 - Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ August 12 Fine Books and
Manuscripts auction boasts a wide range of highlights, including a fine first
printing of Samuel Johnson’s groundbreaking Dictionary of the English
Language (Lot
65), in two volumes, whic
New Book Highlights Recent Digitization Projects Involving Historically Significant Collections at Leading Libraries and Research Centers Digitization in the Real World outlines efforts to digitize rare and important materials at Columbia, Yale, Pratt Institute, American Museum of Natural…
Scotland's First Lending Library Publishes First Book The First Light is a new book with unusual credentials. Its publisher is a library. It is one of only two or three hot metal letterpress books to be published in the United Kingdom in 2009. It is hand finished and leather bound in an edition…
One of the enduring images of journalists ‘hard at work’ over a substantial meal followed by champagne and cigars has filtered down to us from Punch magazine in the mid-19th century, when weekly dinners around the famous Punch table were a focal point of discussion, debate, gossip, and ribaldry.
"Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre- Raphaelites" will be the subject of a conference and related exhibitions to be held 7-9 October 2010 at the University of Delaware (Newark, DE) and at the Delaware Art Museum and the Winterthur Museum & Country…
The Morgan Library & Museum to Exhibit Superb Selection of Drawings and Sketchbooks by Edgar DegasDegas: Drawings and Sketchbooks Opens September 24, 2010
The Morgan Library & Museum to hold first exhibition devoted exclusively to Roy Lichtenstein's black-and-white drawingsRoy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961-1968, opens September 24, 2010
Lucille Ball memorabilia from the Estate of Gary Morton - including love letters, Rolls Royce, awards and artwork - at auction in Beverly Hills July 17 auction features Lucy trove consigned by Susie Morton, wife of Lucy’s second husband Gary Morton
Yonkers, NY - June 29, 2010 - Three rarities of the collecting world will share the spotlight at an August 10th auction in New York at Cohasco Inc. A telltale stroke of a quill pen on an old document could make it one of the earliest signals of the Declaration of Independence. The unique document,…
