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Pages 14 and 15 of Historia Coelestis, with marginal corrections and annotations by Crothswait
Historia Coelestis by John Flamsteed: Rare Book of the Week
This week's Rare Book of the Week is copy of the first Astronomer Royal
The Importance of Being Earnest
Barry Humphries' Oscar Wilde First Edition Sold for £138,600
The Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection sale at Christie's has realised a total of £4,627,224 from a variety of lots of books, art, and Dame Ed
Triptych illustration of the Sino-Japanese War, showing an explosion with a rearing horse in the foreground.
Victor Hugo Drawings, Barry Humphries's Wilde Collection, Presidential Letters: Auction Preview
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The Astronomia nova
Johannes Kepler’s Mysterium cosmographicum Sold for World Record for $327,600
Leading the auction results at Christie’s' latest Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts sale was Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia nova which went for $327
The Importance of Being Earnest
Barry Humphries's Collection of Oscar Wilde First Editions to Auction
Significant works by Oscar Wilde, Ronald Firbank, and Aubrey Beardsley lead Christie’s' Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection auction o
Opening from Johannes Kepler's Astronomia novia (1609).
Signed Tolkien, Gingerich's Astronomy Library, Early Hippocrates: Auction Preview
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John Steinbeck's Webster's Dictionary
John Steinbeck's Webster's Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus: Rare Books of the Week
John Steinbeck's personal copies of Webster's Dictionary and of
Map of "Nova Francia" from the 1633 de Laet atlas
Moroccan Rabbinical Manuscripts, Early Declaration Broadside, FDR Presentation Copy: Auction Preview
At Kedem Auctions on Tuesday, January 21, Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection, in 200 lots. A large volume of manuscript rulings and responses by…
The handwritten Declaration coming to auction
$3m Declaration of Independence Handwritten Manuscript Found in Library Book
A handwritten manuscript of the Declaration of Independence comes to auction next week at Christie's after initially being bought at a library sale.
Nabokov's Lolita
Nabokov’s Lolita Inscribed with Butterfly: Rare Book of the Week
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial 1955 novel Lolita, inscribed to William James, J