Fine Books News: Recent
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
Going under the hammer this week at University Archives is a ticket stub for Charles Dickens's…
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Highlights of Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on December 10 include: * F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from November 1900 to April 1902, with 68 pen-and-ink and watercolor maps, track charts, and illustrations of the ship’s…
The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure comes to auction next week featuring photographs by Frank Hurley who documented Shackleton's exploits in addition to a huge personal library of travel and exploration books.
Firsts Hong Kong opens today and runs until December 8 at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, marking the incorporation of the former China in Print fair into the Firsts stable.
The Bodleian Libraries’ new exhibition Oracles, Omens and Answers opens tomorrow, exploring a wide range of historic divination techniques form astrology and palm reading to weather and public health forecasting.Running through April 27, 2025
, at the Weston Gallery in Oxford highlights include:
A single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her final novel Atlas Shrugged comes to auction at Doyle on December 6 in its Rare Books, Autographs & Maps auction.
The 2024 iteration of the annual Panizzi Lectures take place at the British Library and online this month on the subject of Black Bibliography, Here and Now.
A short inscription by the 14-year-old Franz Kafka which is the earliest piece of his writing known to exist will come to auction for the very first time at Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts online sale running December 8 - 18.
Novelist and editor of The Book Collector literary journal James Fleming has died after a sudden illness.The Book Collector was founded by James's uncle Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, in 1952. James became the proprietor in 2016 and editor two years later. In a statement, the editorial…
Highlights from PBA Galleries' Fine Literature auction ending December 5 includes: * Eight signed broadside poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lenore Kandel Jack Hirschman, Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, ruth weiss, Diane di Prima, and Joanna McClure. Estimate: $500 - $800* A NOTE TO…
A selection from the extensive collection of California-based collectors Rick L. Schwartz and Linda Fisher featuring 35 limited-edition fountain pens from top makers David Oscarson and Loiminchay is going under the hammer at Bonhams' The Art of Writing sale running until December 4.
