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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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A trio of sales to kick off the new month:
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As things settle down in the auction world over the holiday period, here's a quick check on last week's action and the few upcoming sales.
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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:
Archive of President John Tyler's Descendants Going to Auction at PBA
PBA Galleries is pleased to offer the Tyler-Goodwyn Family Archive, an archive of President John Tyler descendants containing approximately 265 letters, documents, writings, and other items, including manuscripts, typed material, partially printed forms, and more, plus silver cups
Angling and Sporting Highlights from the Richard Beagle Collection, Part I
The first of two auctions by PBA Galleries of Richard Beagle’s Collection of Angling and Sporting Books, on June 1, 2017, featured rare and important works on fishing, plus scarce accounts of big game hunting and adventures in the wild. The books were gathered over multiple decades by Mr. Beagle, who began collecting sporting books in the early 1960’s, frequenting the many used book stores in the greater Los Angeles area and corresponding with sporting book dealers, including a number in England.
- Read more about Civil War POW's Archive Comes to Light
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An archive of approximately ninety letters written by Civil War solider John W. Grosh and by members of his family, has surfaced at a San Francisco auction house.
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I can't put my finger on why, but I like "thumb bible" as a bibliographic term. Which is why I was delighted to see a selection of them slated for auction next week at PBA Galleries.
Charles Bukowski Collection Offered by PBA Galleries on July 14
A spectacular collection of Charles Bukowski formed by Allen Berlinski will be offered by PBA Galleries on July 14th, 2016. Nearly half the sale will be comprised by signed editions, limited editions with original paintings by Bukowski, periodical appearances, as well as manuscript poems and correspondence from the poet. The second half of the auction includes modern literary works from authors such as Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, F.
