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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…
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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Dr. Jacinta R. Saffold, one of the inaugural winners of the David Ruggles Prize in book collecting.
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New York – Christie’s Valuable and Important Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Edward R. Leahy totaled $4,473,378 with 94% of the lots sold. Leading the sale was Mr. Leahy’s spectacular collection of modern British illuminated manuscripts and fine bindings,…
The 2022 Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) National Book Collecting Prize has been awarded to two people for the first time since it began six years ago.
The 20 ghost stories by the author of A Christmas Carol are the focus of a new exhibition To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts & the Supernatural.
New York – An autograph scientific manuscript using the new concept of logarithms to determine the movement of the planets by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) comes to auction on October 25 at Bonhams’ History of Science and Technology, including Space History in New York. The manuscript, estimated at $…
Los Angeles — The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents Joan Didion: What She Means, an exhibition as portrait of the author Joan Didion organized by Hilton Als—writer, curator, and critically acclaimed New Yorker contributor—in collaboration with Hammer chief curator Connie Butler and curatorial…
As the four Folios of Shakespeare are the highest prize of English book-collecting, and the Foligno Dante of Italian, so the early editions Don Quixote printed during of Miguel de Cervantes’s lifetime - are the highest prize of Spanish book-collecting.
New York – On October 25, Bonhams will present the most important 18th century map of California as the highlight of its Exploration and Travel Literature, featuring Americana sale in New York.
Another very busy week coming up! Here are the sales I'll be watching:
At ALDE on Tuesday, October 11, Bibliothèque d'un amateur – Livres illustrés modernes, in 137 lots.
The work of Bob Dylan including his early poems has become highly collectible and a new profile by Greil Marcus takes a look at the singer and writer's life and work in Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs from Yale University Press.
