Auction Guide Autumn 2018 | Fine Books & Collections

Auction Guide Autumn 2018

Auction Guide Autumn 2018

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Swann Galleries
A Legendary Face

Bonhams
The Age of Exploration

Leslie Hindman
Mapping a Nation

Forum Auctions
Selling a Library

Heritage Auctions
The Rarest Edition

Leslie Hindman
An Explorer's Eye

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Exhibitions

Kings Library tower in the British Library

16th Century Gardening Manual, Secret War Maps, and Football Fanzines in British Library's 2025 Exhibitions

David King’s Small Press Publications and Zines Celebrated in New Exhibition

Bodleian Libraries’ Kafka Archive Debuts in the US

Maps

Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia macrocosmica after conservation

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Andreas Bureus' Rare Map of Nordic Countries Goes Under the Hammer

Book People

Bottengoms

Nature Writer Ronald Blythe's 15th Century Former Home to Become Writers' Retreat

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Announces  Inaugural Writers Residency

Book Curses, Literary Tourism, and Academic Spies: November Books Roundup

Photographs

Cartier-Bresson's New Orleans, Louisiana, 1947

Cartier-Bresson and Chris Killip Lead Auction of Eric Franck’s Photography Collection

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

Photos of Truman Capote and Joan Didion in Major Irving Penn Retrospective

Visual Art

Duck Soup poster

Rare ‘Son of Frankenstein’, Disney, and Orson Welles’ 'Macbeth' Posters to Auction

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

Earliest Engravings by William Blake Uncovered Using New Scanning Technology

Book Arts

Blue-Green Abelard

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Rare Books

A NOTE TO CRITICS WHO WANT STRAIGHT LINES WHILE THE SEA BEATS OUR NOSTRILS WITH THE LIME AND FROST OF GO

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Beats

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Notebook: Rare Book of the Week

Rare Books Advent Calendar

Americana

Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 typewriter

Raymond Chandler's Typewriter, Scarf, and Unpublished Fantasy Stories to Auction

Gold Rush Letters and Diaries Lead Swann's Americana Auction

'Over the Rainbow' Song Contract and Mervyn LeRoy's Script for 'The Wizard of Oz' to Auction

Auctions

Looiminchay, a group of eight rare limited edition fountain pens

Collection of Rare Pens at Bonhams

Superman, Schiller's Collection, Christina Rossetti Letters: Auction Preview

Spiritual Instruction Manual Leads Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale