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One of only three known surviving copies of A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao…
Christie's' Cabinet des Livres by Pierre Brossette sale of the Lyon businessman's collection…
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A complete set of Theodor de Bry's Voyages in Latin including both the Grands Voyages (America) and the Petits Voyages (Africa and Asia) will go under the hammer at Stockholms Auktionsverk next month.
Freeman’s | Hindman’s major Abraham Lincoln auction yesterday which featured early manuscripts and rare items connected to his assassination made a total of $7,899,994.
Highlights from Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on May 29 include: * Haasis & Lubrecht's The American Union Railroad Map Of The United States, British Possessions, West Indies, Mexico, And Central America, large wax-engraved map of the…
Dealers at this year's Firsts London reported a genuine buzz as more than 4,000 people came through the doors at the Saatchi Gallery including many visitors from the US and sales of over £4.7 million were reported.
Artifacts from America's outlaw history go under the hammer at RR Auction this week.The Old West, Outlaws, Lawmen, and Gangsters sale closing on May 22 features a handwritten letter from Clyde Barrow to his brother, scrawled on the back of a photograph of one of the gang's Gulf Coast hideouts…
The Getty Villa Museum closed on the morning of January 7 when the site was threatened by the Palisades Fire, and since then Getty has worked closely with its own staff and partnering agencies to test the grounds to ensure that the site and buildings are safe for the public to return.
At Dominic Winter Auctioneers on Wednesday, May 21, 480 lots of Photographs, Postcards & Posters, Autographs, Documents & Ephemera, including about 1,000 postcards of the Seychelles from the collection of Sue Hopson (£7,000–10,000), from which several other lots in this sale are also drawn…
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron which explores the revolutionary work of one of photography’s most pioneering and influential figures runs at The Morgan Library & Museum from May 30 through September 14.
Unearthed: The Power of Gardening running through August 10 at the British Library is a major new exhibition exploring the transformative and sometimes radical power of gardening in Britain.Unearthed considers the role gardening has played in social and political movements from the Diggers and True…
The most substantial manuscript by Horatio Nelson still in private hands is being offered for sale at Firsts London running until May 18 at the Saatchi Gallery in London by Peter Harrington for £450,000.
