Fine Books News: Recent
Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair returns to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from May 14 through May…
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
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New York – Sotheby’s announces a copy of The Official Edition of the Constitution, the First Printing of the Final Text of the Constitution as a highlight of Sotheby’s Evening Sales this November in New York, marking the first time a manuscript or historical document will be presented in a fine art…
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
On Wednesday, September 22, 242 lots of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs at Lyon & Turnbull. A Nuremberg Chronicle rates the top estimate, at £30,000–40,000.
Frankenstein lives! In honor of the record-breaking sale this week of a first edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, as well as the recent opening of Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein in Bath, England, it seems like the right time for a briefing on Shelley and the origin of her masterpiece.
Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England — Personal effects once owned by Lieutenant William Bligh (1754-1817) of HMS Bounty fame come for sale in Essex this month. A timed auction at Sworders (September 17-26) will offer the collection of the late John O’Conner (1940-2020), an authority on the…
Amherst, MA — The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art celebrates its beloved late co-founder Eric Carle in the new exhibition Color | Joy | Eric Carle on view through March 6, 2022. The exhibition highlights Carle’s passion for nature and his love of color with original collage illustrations from…
Amsterdam – Catawiki is excited to announce its association with the Dialogue Vintage Photography fair in Amsterdam this weekend. Buyers and sellers of historical photographs and photobooks will gather to buy and sell, and to attend talks and seminars. Of course, Catawiki staff are on hand to…
New York — Printed & Manuscript Americana is at Swann Galleries Thursday, September 30. The sale will feature house specialties such as manuscript diaries, periodicals, historical prints, and more.
London — On Wednesday September 15 at Bonhams Knightsbridge the Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale achieved phenomenal results. The 117-lot sale made a total of £754,241 selling by lot 91% and by value 98%.
The top lot in the sale was an unpublished letter written by Alan Turing analysing his friend…
Wilton, CT – University Archives’ next major online-only auction, slated for Wednesday, September 29th at 10:30 am Eastern time, is titled Fabulous Autographs & Art, From Van Gogh to Hendrix. The 410-lot auction is jampacked with historical autographs, rare books, artwork, posters,…
Last week the New-York Historical Society unveiled Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era, an exhibition of more than thirty rare books and manuscripts from the collection of Martin J. Gross, many of which are on public display for the first time.
