Bonhams - London, Knightsbridge

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022

Auctions

Travel & Exploration

Bonhams - London, Knightsbridge
Montpelier Street
Knightsbridge

London, UK

51.498783219963, -0.16577939999998

Bonhams - London, Knightsbridge

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27372/#/!

Photographs

James Baldwin sitting in a Triumph Herald on the Bosporus Ferry

James Baldwin Centennial Marked with Rare Photographs in New Exhibition

Frank Hurley's Photographs of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Lead Exploration Auction

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

Auctions

Ten Commandments stone tablet

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments Sold For $5.04m

Isaac Newton's Handwritten Manuscript on Religion Sold for $69,870

Ten Commandments Tablet, Kelmscott Press Collection, Alcott Autograph Manuscript: Auction Preview

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

Maps

F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902,

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

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

Exhibitions

Oscar Wilde’s hands sketched by Edward Heron-Allen

Oscar Wilde’s Palms in New Exhibition About Divination

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

Sponsored

reading a book

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Book People

Cindy Sughrue (left) and new Director Frankie Kubicki (right)

Charles Dickens Museum Names New Director

Lewis Carroll Bibliography, Renaissance Libraries, and the Unfinished Work of Great Writers : December Books Roundup

Penn Libraries Receives $5m Bequest From Medieval Historian Elizabeth Brown

Rare Books

The handbag Bible

Handbag Bible: Rare Book of the Week

Friends of the Nations’ Libraries Donates 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral

The Great Mongol Shahnama: Rare Book of the Week

Americana

Charles Lindbergh's handwritten plea

Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, and George Washington Autograph Documents to Auction

Manuscript Leaf from First Draft of 'Atlas Shrugged' to Auction

Raymond Chandler's Typewriter, Scarf, and Unpublished Fantasy Stories to Auction

Visual Art

A selection from more than 200,000 items from the AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive

Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records

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

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters