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The private archive of explorer Captain Louis Palander af Vega will go under the hammer next month…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amalia V. of New York City who was an…
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A Stephen Hawking autograph has sold for $18,813, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
Accompanied by a transmittal letter signed by his wife, Jane Hawking, dated October 15, 1983, it reads in part: "Thank you for your courteous letter of 29 September requesting my husband's autograph. After many…
Highlights from Lawbook Exchange’s latest catalogue of broadsides and ephemera.
The New-York Historical Society, the city’s first museum, presents Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). Walker’s series of 15 prints responds to the two-volume anthology Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion first published in 1866.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s famous invention, the telephone. While scientific history is mired in controversy over who actually devised the first electronic speech-transmitting device, it was Bell who received the US patent for the telephone, on March 7, 1876.…
The Ticknor Society in Boston will begin accepting submissions on March 1, 2023 for the Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, which was created to encourage and recognize those in New England who have been inspired to compile, curate, and own a book…
A rare complete set of country-of-origin Sean Connery James Bond posters will be auctioned by Propstore in the UK as part of a sale of more than 570 film and music posters. The sale runs until March 2.
Among the James Bond Highlights are:
* a UK quad-sized poster for Connery's 007 debut in Dr No…
Sotheby's will bring the Codex Sassoon - the earliest, most complete Hebrew Bible extant, dating to the late ninth century - to auction in May.
Artcurial has auctioned Hergé’s original drawing for the 1942 cover of the album Tintin in America, which was then used in 1946 for the first colour edition of the album.
After a bidding battle during the The World of Hergé, Tintin’s Creator sale, this Indian ink drawing was sold on…
Opening this Friday at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) in New York City is an exhibition on historic dining customs and fashions. Staging the Table in Europe 1500-1800 features books, art, and objects (knives out!) that shed light on pan-European food culture.
At Chiswick Auctions on Tuesday, February 14, Autographs & Memorabilia, in 398 lots. Rating the top estimate is a pair of boxing trunks worn by Muhammed Ali during his final match in December, 1981 (£15,000–20,000).
