Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Lyon & Turnbull's September Books & Manuscripts auction has a strong Scottish flavour, with an extremely rare, first ‘Kilmarnock’ edition of
First paperback edition with no mention of printing. This book, with instructions on how to build weapons, interfere with telecommunications, and manufacture illegal drugs, is one of the most…
At Forum Auctions on Thursday, an online sale of Books and Works on Paper, in 216 lots. A copy of the 1566 work [J]udgement of the Reverend Father Master Henry Bullinger, Pastor of the church of…
"This is undoubtedly the rarest item I have encountered thus far," said Oliver Bayliss. "Only 49 complete bibles are known to exist and these are with museums and institutions. In the 1920s rare…
Highlights from Bonhams' The Greatest Show: The Fairground World of Ross Hutchinson auction on September 10 include C. W. Parker's The Jumping Horse "Carry-Us-All" Steam Riding Gallery advertising…
On Monday, August 26, in the Winter Associates sale of Important Estate Offerings there are a handful of interesting book lots, including five volumes with fore-edge paintings ($800–1,200) as well as…
Plans to save the cottage where writer and artist William Blake wrote the words of the hymn Jerusalem and turn it into a new centre celebrating his life and work are moving ahead following
The Huntington has re-acquired a 1543 first edition of De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body) by Andreas Vesalius which revolutionized the field of ana
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, August 20, 199 lots of 15th-18th Century Printing, Americana & Fine Books, including a 1682 edition of Grotius' Rights of War & Peace ($1,500–2,500);…
