Sotheby's
The Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History sale at Sotheby's London ends on Tuesday, No
Another busy week coming up in the sale rooms:
London - In a rare appearance at auction, a magnificent folio from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh has sold for £8,061,700 / $9,091,179.
As the four Folios of Shakespeare are the highest prize of English book-collecting, and the Foligno Dante of Italian, so the early editions
Another very busy week for bibliophiles coming up in the auction rooms.
London — The Shahnameh – or ‘Book of Kings’ – made for Shah Tahmasp of Persia (r.1524-76) is one of the finest illustrated manuscripts in existence.
This week may be a short one, but it is jam-packed with interesting auctions.
A First Folio of Shakespeare’s works—one of fewer than twenty remaining in private hands, and this one with Scottish provenance dating back to the seventeenth century—sold at Sotheby’s yesterday fo
London – Yesterday at Sotheby’s in London, a copy of the first edition of Sylvia Plath’s first collection, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) se
Quite an exciting week coming up in the sale rooms: rare maps, a First Folio, Bob Dylan lyrics, and more!
