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"Scotland for your holidays" poster showing train on the Forth Bridge
Steinbeck Rarities, Einstein Letters, and Ricky Jay Collection: Auction Preview
Bonhams New York holds a sale titled John Steinbeck: The Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection, featuring 107 lots of rare Steinbeckiana collected by the author's sister Mary and her son-in-law…
Lot 210: John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, first edition, first issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper to the founding editor of The New Yorker Magazine
Inscribed John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, and Eric Ambler First Editions to Auction
Swann Galleries' October 26 Fine Books & Autographs auction features a selection of signed first editions, 19th and 20th century classics, as well a
Hypnerotomachia in a binding for Jean Grolier
Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Shakespeare First Folio, and Fortsasiana
At Chiswick Auctions on Monday, October 9, 490 lots of Autographs & Memorabilia, including a signed 1964 Beatles promo photograph (£5,000–7,000), a 1933 Einstein letter to the provost of Oriel…
Albert Einstein, typed letter signed, to Melanie Serbu. 9 October 1928.
Einstein-Serbu Correspondence to Auction
At the age of 19, young Romanian Melanie Serbu struck up a 20-year correspondence with Albert Einstein.
From the Ken Rapoport Collection: Lot 32: Juan Rufo, La Austriada, Madrid, first edition, 1584. Estimate $3,000 to $5,000; Lot 18: Pedro de Espinosa, Primera Parte de las Flores de Poetas Ilustres de España, Dividida en los Libros, first edition, Valladolid, 1605. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Works on the History of Psychiatry to Auction at Swann
The fall Early Printed Books auction at Swann Galleries on October 12 will feature lots from three important collectors, including more from Ken Rapoport, as well as works on the history of…
Illustration from Maria Sibylla Merian
Women’s Suffrage Collection and a Pennyroyal Caxton Bible: Auction Preview
On Tuesday, October 3, the Christie's New York sale A Century of Art: Photographs from the Gerald Fineberg Collection will close: the 113 lots include August Sander's Der Maler Anton Räderscheidt (…
Lot 46: Papers of the Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, including diaries, correspondence, lecture notes and more, 1877–1920. Estimate $50,000 to $75,000.
Robert Peary Papers and American Revolution Lead Americana Auction
Leading Swann Galleries' September 28 Americana auction is a large archive of papers from polar explorer Robert Peary including supply lists for his Gre
Plate from Catherwood's Views of the Ancient Monuments
Alexandre Dumas, Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, and Foyle's Books: Auction Preview
On Tuesday, September 26, Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins at Forum Auctions. The 259 lots include Otto Magnus von Stackelberg's Costumes et Usages des Peuples de la Grece Moderne…
Charles Dana Gibson, And you believed the guides, illustration
The State of Illustration Art Collecting
Swann Auction Galleries will be closing out their auction year with an Illustration Art sale set for December 14. Swann’s Illustration Art Specialist, Skye Lacerte, discussed her background with us,…
Designer binding on "Moby-Dick"
Fly Tying, Sangorski & Sutcliffe Bindings, Cricketers Caricatured: Auction Preview
Doyle's 219-lot sale of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps ends on Tuesday, August 15. Lots include a deluxe copy of Charles Phair's 1937 Atlantic Salmon Fishing estimated at $10,000–15,000. Sharing…