Fine Books News: Recent
In 18th century Paris the Palais Royal housed booksellers in the galleries under the arcades and a…
168 years after London’s 'Great Stink' which forced the government to pass a law to build the sewer…
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It may come as a surprise to learn that some executioners also practiced medicine. A 1,500-page manuscript recently acquired by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in California reveals its author, a German executioner named Maximus Fidelis Steigendesch (1730–1810), aka…
Dallas, TX— Spanning George Washington to the Wild Things, Heritage Auctions' latest American Art Signature® Auction set numerous auction records Tuesday on its way to a $6 million finish.
Chicago – On May 3 and 4, Hindman Auctions’ Fine Books & Manuscripts sales realized more than $1.4 million. The Library of Jack Charles Davis, sold to support charitable institutions, was presented on May 3, and was followed by the Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana auction on…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Read Brown, of NYU, who won second place in the 2021 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest for his collection "The Serious Business of Fun: A Collection of Books on the Video Game Industry."
Dallas, TX – A rocking chair commissioned by President John F. Kennedy sold at Heritage Auctions Saturday for nearly $600,000, the highest price ever paid for one of the late president’s prized rockers.
Charlottesville, VA – Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has selected the third cohort of 15 fellows to join the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage (RBS-Mellon CH Fellowship). Fellows will participate in a three-year program which includes…
The 1827 novel, The Mummy: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, was reissued last month as part of the Haunted Library of Horror Classics series edited by Eric J. Guignard and Leslie S. Klinger.
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries announces an auction of Fine Literature – With the Beasts, Bukowski & the Counterculture on May 19th, 2022. The sale comprises over 480 lots of fine literature and ephemera, featuring scarce works from the counterculture and the Beat Generation, as well as a large…
From Gloucestershire to Paris to California, here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Philadelphia — Freeman’s May 3 American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts and May 4 Books and Manuscripts auctions brought collectors a fine array of significant early Americana, from letters and political documents to furniture, silver, and artwork.
The market demand for such items across…
