Event Calendar

Photographs

12pm EDT

Bonhams New York
580 Madison Avenue

New York, NY

The Library of Barry Humphries

The sale will feature a remarkable array of books, manuscripts, works on paper and objects from the extensive library of the legendary comedian, actor, author, and satirist Barry Humphries (1934-2023).

1pm

VIEWINGS:
Mon - Fri 9:30am - 5pm (strictly by appt)

4 Ingate Place
Nine Elms

Battersea, London UK

Photographs
Sale #N11753

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of Sotheby's Photographs in New York. Since that noteworthy sale in 1975, Sotheby's has been at the forefront of the photographs market, continually setting new world records by bringing the most compelling works to auction. Sotheby's spring Photographs auction in New York will bring together an exciting range of photographs by many of the most sought-after artists across the full 186 year history of the medium.

12pm

EXHIBITIONS:
Sat, Mar 29th 10am - 5pm
Sun, Mar 30th 1pm - 5pm
Mon, Mar 31st 10am - 5pm
Tue, Apr 1st 10am - 5pm

Sotheby's - New York
1334 York Avenue

New York, NY

Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper
Sale #1164

1pm

Forum Auctions
Battersea
4 Ingate Place
Nine Elms

London, UK

Books and Manuscripts
Sale #6285

Auction features almost 300 lots of printed Americana, literature, art, maps, and more, led by an incredible rarity of philosophical thought, a first edition of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government ($20,000-$30,000). Other top lots include rare first printings of the Journals of the Continental Congress for 1774-76 ($20,000-$30,000), and the Stamp Act ($15,000-$25,000), a first edition of Joyce’s Ulysses ($15,000-$25,000), and the earliest known extant manuscript of William Blackstone ($8,000-$12,000).

The sale offers a number of fine press productions including the Arion, Chelodiinae, and Kelmscott Presses, as well as a group of first editions of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, some inscribed, from the estate of a personal friend of the author.

Rounding out the auction is an amazing archive of books and letters signed by African American poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar ($10,000-$15,000), a rare and complete run of John Martin’s illustrations for Milton’s Paradise Lost ($10,000-$15,000), and autograph letter by Sigmund Freud discussing fellow psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich ($6,000-$9,000), a fine display of items signed by many key figures in the Dreyfus Affair ($4,000-$6,000), English cartographer John Speed’s first double hemisphere map in English ($4,000-$6,000), Presidential material, including signatures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and more.

10am

PREVIEW:
Mon, Mar 24th 10am - 5pm
Tue, Mar 25th 10am - 5pm
Wed, Mar 26th 10am - 5pm

Freeman's | Hindman - Philadelphia
2400 Market Street

Philadelphia, PA