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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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Last month, the August Wilson House opened in Pittsburgh after a yearslong renovation.
Los Angeles – Offering nearly 100 personal items including rare, signature fashion pieces, such as lace gloves and the only two collars being made available to the public, Bonhams is pleased to announce its second and final auction from the collection of the late U.S. Supreme Court…
London – The mysterious and violent death of the English landscape painter Daniel Egerton in a Mexican village in 1842 – the body of his 19-year-old eight-month pregnant mistress Alice by his side – was as scandal ridden as his life. There was no shortage of possible culprits. Opportunistic…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Evan DeTurk, an undergraduate student at Princeton University where he was the winner of this year's Elmer Adler Book Collecting Prize.
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Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions' poster sale held on August 20th, 2022 was a wall-to-wall success. When the hammer fell silent for the last time, 47 lots made $750-$1,499; 22 lots scored $1,500-$3,999; and seven lots broke the $4,000 mark. All prices noted include the company's 20% buyer's…
Today the winners of the inaugural David Ruggles Prize, a new national book collecting prize established to support and encourage young collectors of color, have been announced.
Philadelphia — Freeman’s September 21 Books and Manuscripts auction, the inaugural sale of the Fall 2022 season, is led by an extremely rare first edition of New Englands First Fruits (estimate: $20,000-30,000), a 1643 account of Puritan evangelization in New England. The first copy to be offered…
New York – Christie’s is honored to continue its historic sales of the library of the leading antiquarian book dealer of his generation with the most important private holding of books, manuscripts and other material related to perhaps the most important American author of the 19th century. The…
1639 Henricus Hondius map showing California as an island, offered at Hindman this week.
On January 28, 2009, Dr. James Hutson, Chief of the Manuscripts Division at the Library of Congress, sent a letter to manuscript and special collections librarians concerning certain Walt Whitman notebooks which went missing from the Library in 1942. Enclosed with the letter was a 1954 brochure, "…
