Fine Books News: Recent
New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
Topics
Here are the auctions I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
At New England Books Auctions on Tuesday, December 6, 206 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera.
235 years ago, America’s Founding Fathers signed the United States Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, marking the formation of the country’s most significant and lasting document—as well as the longest continuing charter of government in the world.
New York - Doyle is honored to offer the Collection of a New York Surveyor in a timed auction closing on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 10am. This fascinating collection of manuscript maps of Manhattan tracks the changes of the developing city from 1750-1850. The Collection will be offered as a…
Highlights from Langdon Manor Books’ latest catalogue African Americana.
The original drawing by E.H. Shepard which brings AA Milne’s 1926 book Winnie-the-Pooh to a close will appear in Bonham’s Fine Books and Manuscripts auction later this month.
A new film about the Blavatnik Honresfield Library that was saved for the nation last year will be shown as part of a special event at the British Library in London.
For more than a decade, Fine Books has produced a holiday gift guide for bibliophiles. All year long, we bookmark unique items that come to our attention, and then, when the season arrives, we share the list of our favorite things. Here are the top ten for 2022:
RR Auction's December Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale brings over 1,000 items to the auction block. A special animation section features production cels from a number of Disney classics, plus concept paintings by legendary artists Mary Blair and Eyvind Earle.
The Austrian novelist, biographer, and polymath Stefan Zweig, who took his own life in despair in 1942 after being hounded into exile by the Nazis, was one of the leading manuscript collectors of the 20 th century.
A worldwide effort to crack the code that Charles Dickens used to write his notes has won a Times Higher Education Award, one of the most prestigious accolades in UK Higher Education.
University of Leicester, in collaboration with the University of Foggia took home the Research Project of the Year…
