PBA Galleries
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
At Swann Galleries on Tuesday, June 25, 182 lots of Autographs, including a fair copy autograph manuscript of Torquato Tasso's poem "La Fenice" ($50,000–75,000); an April 1783 John Adams letter to…
At Christie's London on Tuesday, June 11, 61 lots of Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection, including the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, the earliest known book in private hands, a papyrus codex…
At Chiswick Auctions on Tuesday, May 14, 209 lots of Books and Works on Paper, including a William Nicholson boxing illustration (£26,000–28,000); Léon de Laborde's Voyage en Orient (1837–1845),…
On Tuesday, April 30, 205 lots of Angling, Big Game Hunting, Firearms at New England Book Auctions. Lots include the 1899 publication Great and Small Game of Africa (1899), edited by H.A. Bryden and…
At ALDE on Tuesday, April 16, 286 lots of Atlas & Livres de Voyage – Histoire Naturelle, including a very nice copy of George Edwards' Histoire naturelle de divers oiseaux (1745–1751), which…
The Bonhams online sale Remarkable Women: Manuscripts and Memorabilia ends on Tuesday, April 2; the 55 lots include a large collection related to the author Armine von Tempski (1892–1943), including…
At ALDE on Tuesday, March 19, 192 lots of Livres de Gastronomie, including two manuscript volumes documenting the menus and food expenditures of the French royal court: the volume for 1680 is…
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, March 12, 229 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera, with the usual wide range of material. Heritage Auctions sells 126 lots from Neil Gaiman's Comics & Comic…
At Dominic Winter Auctioneers on Wednesday and Thursday, March 6–7, 693 lots of Printed Books, Maps & Playing Cards, Charles Darwin & Natural History. A copy of John Arrowsmith's London Atlas…
