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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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Three decades ago, while out antiquing, Kendra and Allan Daniel came across a painting called The Fish Boy signed “Nura” that caught their eye. “The artist’s name was unfamiliar,” recalled Kendra, “but the painting struck me as highly inspired.”
London — A previously unknown sketchbook of watercolours and pencil drawings relating to the California Gold Rush and the famous Forty Niners has sold at auction on August 4 for £20,000 ($24,100; including buyers premium).
Berkeley, CA — On August 25, 2022, PBA Galleries will be hosting a sale of Antiquarian Books with Fine Press and Fine Bindings of over 350 lots from the private press movement, fine bindings, fore-edge painted books, posters, graphic arts and antiquarian books. Featured are choice selections of…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Jennifer Fisher, poet and proprietor of Vortexity, a street shop in the East Village on Avenue A near to St. Mark's in New York City.
Fine Books & Collections' autumn issue arrives in mailboxes this week and next. Unintentionally, 'destinations' became a theme for this issue. For our cover story, literary tourist Nigel Beale takes us around Prague, trailing author Frank Kafka and artist John Heartfield.
Amsterdam – Catawiki is proud to continue our tradition of offering exciting and high quality books and manuscripts in Exclusive auctions.
We have launched a large selection of beautiful books, maps, manuscripts and autographs in our latest “Exclusive Auction” With a wealth of beautiful…
For seven years, Brooklyn artist George Cochrane has worked on a contemporary illuminated manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy—all 350,000 characters of the epic poem, plus illustrations, in the original Italian.
Boston — A King Henry VIII signed document discussing sponsoring the feast day of St. George sold for $66,435 according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The one-page vellum manuscript signed "Henry R," is dated July 26, 1536. The document by which King Henry VIII orders the treasurer and…
Promotional piece for the Vincent Price films "The Fly" and "Return of the Fly," offered as part of a large archive of British film promotional material at Dominic Winter Auctioneers this week.
While researching my recent posts about bestsellers from 100 years ago (see parts 1 and 2), I came across the blog "Great Penformances" run by Linda Aragoni. Linda reviews vintage novels on her blog on the anniversary of the year they appeared on the bestseller lists.
