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The Tucson-based gallerist's library which goes under the hammer at 11am Pacific Time today at PBA…
Running September 19 through February 1, 2026 L is for Look will focus on children's photobooks…
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Sanford Smith, who created numerous internationally recognised art fairs in addition to running The New York Antiquarian Book Fair from 1979 up to its recent 64th edition at the Park Avenue Armory this year, died on May 25 in Manhattan.
Manuscript treasures including Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten draft of the Gettysburg Address, a map from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and lyrics from The Sound of Music are among more than 120 items in the new Libary of Congress exhibition Collecting Memories.
Printed by Hardouin, Germain, and Gillet, Homo anatomicus - or Zodiac Man - is an illuminated manuscript in French, drawn from the Book of Hours. It comes up for auction at Roseberys London on June 4 as part of The George Farrow Collection, focusing on the…
At ALDE on Tuesday, May 28, 263 lots of Reliures Originales & Livres Illustrés Modernes, including a deluxe copy of Anna de Noailles' Les Climats (1928) with a whole bunch of extra material (€50,000–60,000); an edition of Pindar's VIIIe Pythique (1960) with illustrations by Picasso is estimated…
A collection of 4,600 menus for meals served to world leaders on state visits to France goes under the hammer on May 31 at French auction house Maison Millon.
Goldin is introducing its first major foray into the growing sector of CGC-Graded magazines. Highlighting the collection in Goldin’s May Elite Auction is the first Sports Illustrated magazine ever graded 9.9 by CGC, a December 2022 issue featuring Kylian Mbappé. After 15 years and more than…
The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Board of Governors has announced that they have appointed Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper as the new director of the 92-year-old institution following a 10-month international search.
Generations of readers in the UK have grown up reading Ladybird books, highly illustrated pocket-sized hardbacks at pocket-money prices which provided children with an introduction to reading, fiction, and all aspects of society in an accessible but authoritative way.
Highlights from Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on June 13 include:* Laurent Fries, after Martin Waldseemuller, Oceani Ocidentalis seu Terre Nove Tabula, double-page woodcut map of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, and southeast North America, Lyon…
The Nag Hammadi Codex I Binding, dating back to 4th century Egypt, goes on sale as part of Christie's' Manuscript Masterpieces from The Schøyen Collection on June 11.The sheep leather book binding with papyrus cartonnage, which measures 300 x 150mm closed and 300 x 334mm fully opened, is the…
