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A duo of remarkable historical artifacts, including an 1833 copy of the Declaration of Independence and an autograph letter signed by Ernest Hemingway on grizzly bear hunting, are set to go under the hammer at the Nate D. Sanders Auctions on October 26.
Hindman will hold its fall Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana sale on November 10. Featuring more than 400 lots, the sale includes early fencing books, an extensive run of works by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a selection of livres d’artistes in very fine 20th-century bindings…
An estimated 1,000 works of art, rare books, and precious objects from the personal collection
of the descendant of the founder of Hermès are to offered in four auctions by Sotheby's Paris, December 13-15.
The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (BIABF) returns to the Hynes Convention Center in Downtown Boston, October 27-29, 2023. Celebrating its 45th year, this three-day event features fine and rare printed materials from around the globe, including illuminated manuscripts, modern first…
One of Dublin’s biggest celebations, the Bram Stoker Festival is back with more than 50,000 people expected to enjoy activities across the city from October 27 to October 30.Highlights include:
Anchored around some of its most acclaimed medieval manuscripts, The Morgan Library & Museum will present Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality, an exhibition examing the economic revolution in medieval Europe and charting the expanding role and perception of money during that period.
Hindman will offer a complete copy of Edward S. Curtis’s seminal The North American Indian, arguably the most complete ethnographic record of the native peoples of North America ever assembled in its Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection sale, the first in a pair of back-to-back Books…
When the Folger Theatre begins performances of The Winter’s Tale on November 4, ticket holders will be greeted by Anke Neumann’s ethereal and symbolic 15-foot-tall hanging sculpture, Cloud of Imagination.Installed in August at the Folger Shakespeare Library, it connects the newly constructed east…
Unseen photos from Bournemouth’s 1910 International Aviation Meeting, during which Rolls-Royce co-founder Charles Rolls plunged to his death when his plane broke up mid-air, go under the hammer with Richard Winterton Auctioneers on November 6. The Edwardian album documenting one of Britain’s…
The Epistola de insulis nuper inventis, the earliest obtainable edition of Christopher Columbus’s letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella announcing his “discovery” of the American continent, has been sold for $3,922,000, 392 percent of its low estimate.
