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Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions' April 26th, 2022 literature sale was a cover-to-cover success with a 97% sell through rate. When the hammer fell silent after a long day of spirited bidding, 58 lots realized $1,000-3,999; 20 lots made $4,000-9,999; and seven lots broke the five figure…
New York — Last week, the 62nd Edition of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF), officially sanctioned by the ABAA and ILAB and produced and managed by Sanford L.
Berkeley, CA – On April 21st, 2022, PBA Galleries offered a small but highly important group of rare maps, views, and pictorial letter sheets relating to the early history and later development of the city of San Francisco. The important assemblage of graphic and cartographic material from the…
St. Paul, MN — The Minnesota Antiquarian Book Fair and the Minnesota Virtual Antiquarian Book Fair, one set for July 8-9, 2022, at Schoenecker Arena at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, the other taking place online from July 7-9, 2022, are pleased to announce a new collaboration with…
Boston — RR Auction's May's Fine Autograph and Artifact sale brings nearly 1,000 unique items to the auction block, including a stunning handwritten musical manuscript by Johann Sebastian Bach. The remarkable one-page autograph musical manuscript by Bach, circa 1728, being a fragment from the…
South Africa — AntiquarianAuctions.com has a new sale of Rare Books, Photographs and Original Artwork: the preview is on now and the auction will be open for bids from 12.30pm eastern time on 4th May, closing on the 11th May at the same time, 12.30pm eastern time.
Dallas, TX — It began with a framed letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt gifted to Melvin "Pete" Mark Jr. by his mother-in-law in 1962. At that moment, or close enough, "history became Dad's passion," says Pete's son Jim. "It became Dad's life."
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, UK -- One of the most extraordinary feats of Victorian engineering is remembered in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on 18th May, with a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel (estimate: £200-300 plus buyer’s premium). The tunnel was the first of its…
Chicago – The American Writers Museum today announced its full programming schedule for the 2022 American Writers Festival from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., Sunday, May 15 at the Chicago Cultural Center and American Writers Museum. The free, one-day event will coincide with the museum’s fifth anniversary…
Philadelphia — Freeman’s May 11 La Belle Époque on Paper auction brings an important collection of artworks from a private New York family to market. The sixteen lots offered—almost all works on paper—highlight the work of such School of Paris luminaries as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy,…
