Jeremy Dibbell
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
At Sotheby's London on Tuesday, July 2, 73 lots of Important Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of the Late Ernst Boehlen, including a fragmentary bifolium from the Sacramentary of St. Boniface…
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…
Some manuscripts and printed material are included in the Doyle sale of the Collection of Stephen Sondheim on Tuesday, June 18, but most of the books are being sold as large group lots. There is some…
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 Tajan on Tuesday, June 5, 125 lots of Livres et Manuscrits, including one of two known autograph manuscript copies of Camus' L'Étranger (€500,000–800,000). The sale also includes a complete 100-…
At ALDE on Tuesday, May 28, 263 lots of Reliures Originales & Livres Illustrés Modernes, including a deluxe copy of Anna de Noailles' Les Climats (1928) with a whole bunch of extra material (€50,…
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, May 21, 230 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera, including a set of the 1902 Book-Lover's Camden Edition of Whitman's works, a volume containing four nineteenth…
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),…
There are a handful of books in the Freeman's | Hindman sale of The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright on Tuesday, May 7, mostly presentation copies but a handful of books with her…
