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The Raab Collection has discovered and will offer for sale for Presidents’ Day a mysterious relic…
Signed in Paris by American diplomats Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe and French official…
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Join the Book Owners Online team for a collaborative online research day about bookplates and the historical book owners who used them. Open to everyone interested in provenance and book history, come along to learn about bookplates and Book Owners Online from David Pearson and his team, then put…
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The Brontë Parsonage Museum 2023 exhibition, The Brontës and the Wild, considers how landscape, weather and the natural world play an important role in the lives and work of the Brontës. Highlights of this fascinating new exhibition include the Brontë family copy of Thomas…
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The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s Diversity Initiative Committee is proud to announce a paid summer internship program, co-sponsored by AbeBooks, aimed at providing an alternative route to success in the antiquarian and rare book business.
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Quentin Blake at 90: A Birthday Auction in Support of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration at Bonhams raised £390,023. Each of the 139 lots found a buyer making it a white glove sale. The online auction ran on bonhams.com from Friday  December 2 - Friday December 16, the day the…
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Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce the results of this 500+ lot sale which was held on Saturday, December 10th, 2022. When the hammer finally fell silent after a long day of competitive bidding, 57 lots made $1,000-2,999; 18 lots made $3,000-9,999; and one lot broke the five figure…
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To open our 20th anniversary year, join us for an evening at Chawton House and be amongst the first few to see a very special edition of Jane Austen’s Emma before it goes on public display.
Auctions
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers is proud to present the comic and comic art collection of Andy Yanchus on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2023.
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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is delighted to present its newest exhibition: What Might You Do? Christian Robinson. It opens January 14, 2023 and is on view through June 4, 2023. In only 10 years, Christian Robinson has emerged as a transformative voice in children’s literature.…
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The David Stather Library, a remarkable private collection put together over a lifetime, is to be sold in a single-owner sale at Tennants Auctioneers, North Yorkshire on January 25. The books have been lovingly preserved by Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from…
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The artist, illustrator and best-selling author Charlie Mackesy is taking over Sotheby’s London on New Bond Street this Christmas with a new selling exhibition of his work (December 16 - January 13), and the transformation of Sotheby’s “Story Café” with floor-to-ceiling murals hand painted by the…