Heritage Auctions - New York

Thursday, September 5th, 2019

Auctions

Rare Books
Sale #6212

Bidding Begins Approx. August 16th

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September 4th - 5th

Heritage Auctions - New York
445 Park Avenue

New York, NY

40.7610924, -73.9705667

Heritage Auctions - New York

Auctions

Typewritten notes with copied annotations written by the Rev W Awdry

Rare Rev W Awdry Handwritten Notes Lead Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends Auction

Literary Items From The W H Smith Archive at Auction

Detective Fiction, Don Henley Advice, and Napoleon: The Week in Rare Books

Americana

The front of the repatriated manuscript

FBI Returns Stolen Conquistador Manuscript to Mexico

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Rare Books

CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group Conference 2025

Major Collection of Works by Herman Melville Received by The Morgan

The Birds of Great Britain: Rare Book of the Week

Book People

Oliver Bayliss

Oliver Bayliss on Graham Greene’s ‘Dracula’, Private Members’ Clubs, and New Ideas for the Rare Book Trade

Forum Auctions Appoints Vicki Wonfor as CEO

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

Visual Art

The American Family by William H. Walker, December 1895

New Exhibition Focuses on 19th century Cartoons Satirizing Women's Fashion

Propaganda and Travel Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Mary Blair Leads Original Disney Production Art Sale

Sponsored

reading a book

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Exhibitions

The poster for The Huntington's new 250th anniversary celebrations

The Huntington Mark 250th Declaration of Independence Anniversary with Rare Documents

Getty Manuscripts Exhibition Focuses on Travel in the Middle Ages

Poet Richard Aldington Celebrated in New Exhibition

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

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

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