Auction Guide Spring 2021 | Fine Books & Collections

Auction Guide Spring 2021

Auction Guide Autumn 2020

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Heritage Auctions
Significant Signatures

Hindman Auctions
Something for Everyone

Potter & Potter Auctions
A Sale of Literary Importance

Swann Galleries
Fascinating Finds

Auctions

Sketch of Disney's Pinocchio in red, mounted with tape to a sketchbook page.

Scottish Music, Gould's Birds of Britain, Durrell Presentation Copies: Auction Preview

Washington Irving’s Original Handwritten Manuscript of 'Legend of the House of Omeya' to Auction

Mineral Dictionary, Micrographia, and British Imperial Intel: The Week in Rare Books

Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries

Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Book People

Dunlewey Church, Co Donegal

Five-Year Brian Friel Centenary Begins With Five Plays Over Five Weeks

The National Library of Scotland Celebrates Birthday Bash with 'Beano'

Bright Young Booksellers: Oliver Bayliss

Visual Art

(left) Fred Spear, Enlist, 1915, estimate $7,000 - $10,000; (right) Fred Spear, Enlist, 1917, estimate $3,000 - $4,000

Propaganda and Travel Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Mary Blair Leads Original Disney Production Art Sale

Jane Austen's Illustrators Celebrated in New Anniversary Exhibition

Photographs

Bill Cunningham, Municipal Building, built 1914

Photographer Bill Cunningham’s Archive Acquired by The New York Historical

Marilyn Monroe’s Signed Passport Photograph Sold for $21,655

Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate

Rare Books

Cantus, songs and fancies

'Cantus, songs and fancies': Rare Book of the Week

Complete Run of 'Action Comics' to Auction

First Edition of 'The Hobbit' Found in House Clearance to Auction

Exhibitions

Scott Vile at work

'Printing Books for Four Decades' Exhibition Celebrates Scott Vile

Japanese Crêpe-Paper Books Lead Beinecke Fall Exhibition Line-Up

Miriam Margolyes Launches New 'Showtime!' Exhibition at Charles Dickens Museum

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Evergreen Review at PBA Galleries

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Book Arts

Reconstructed fragment of a bronze military diploma from Sardinia, issued by the emperor Trajan to a sailor on a warship. 113/14 CE

New AI Tool Could Help Reconstruct Missing Ancient Inscriptions

Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'

Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title