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From a quiet auction week to one that's absolutely jam-packed!
First, we've got three sales on Tuesday, May 14:
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Another very crowded auction week:
On Monday, November 26, Ketterer Kunst held a sale of Rare Books in Hamburg. A German copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle in a mid-sixteenth-century binding sold for ??147,600, and a Latin Book of Hours (use of Troyes) from around 1480 in a nineteenth-century find binding by Simier fetched ??70,110.
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
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Another very busy week in the book-auction world:
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Living in the shadow of her husband, author F.
Sotheby's Announces the Bible Collection of Dr. Charles Caldwell Ryrie
NEW YORK, 6 October 2016--Sotheby’s is honored to announce the sale of one of the greatest private collections of printed and manuscript Bibles formed since the 19th century, The Bible Collection of Dr. Charles Caldwell Ryrie, which will be held in New York on 5 December 2016. Dr. Ryrie (1925-2016) was best known for his eponymous Study Bible, which contains 10,000 concise and cogent explanatory notes and has sold more than 2,600,000 copies. But while the Study Bible was directed towards the general reader, Dr.
Extremely Rare Abraham Lincoln Photograph at Sotheby's NY
New York, 19 September 2016--Sotheby's is privileged to present an extremely rare and important photograph, The First Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, 4 March 1861 (estimate $20/30,000)
Sotheby's to Offer John F. Nash, Jr.'s 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
NEW YORK-On 17 October 2016 at 2pm, Sotheby’s New York will offer John F. Nash, Jr.'s 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Sotheby's Unveils Highlights from Two Centuries of American History
NEW YORK, May 2016 - Sotheby’s is honored to offer two significant and foundational documents of the United States of America, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.
Sotheby's London Sale of the Personal Collection of Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire Soars to £1.8 Million
March 2, 2016: In a packed salesroom at Sotheby’s London today, hundreds of collectors gathered to witness the sale of the personal collection of Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014). Over 1000 participants drove the sale total to £1,777,838, over 3x the pre-sale estimate (£500,000-700,000).
On March 2, Sotheby's London will auction a rather extraordinary collection--that of Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, the last of the legendary (and literary) Mitford sisters. The selection consists of the contents of her final home, the Old Vicarage at Edensor on the Chatsworth estate. She died in 2014 at the age of 94.
