Fine Books News: Recent
In 18th century Paris the Palais Royal housed booksellers in the galleries under the arcades and a…
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A very busy week is coming up in the auction rooms.
On Tuesday, April 5, Oeuvres Graphiques & Autographes (Aristophil 47) at Aguttes. The 305 lots include a January 20, 1890 Van Gogh manuscript letter to Madame Ginoux (€200,000–250,000) and an 1896 Paul Gauguin letter with added drawing (€100,…
Dallas, TX — Hooray for Hollywood — specifically, director James Cruze's star-studded 1923 comedy Hollywood.
It’s April and that means it’s National Poetry Month, the perfect time to share this news from Louisiana State University’s Special Collections: “The Wyatt Houston Day Collection of Poetry by African Americans, the most important private collection of Black poetry, now belongs to LSU. The LSU…
Oxford, England — The annual PBFA Oxford Book Fair is one of the largest events in the British antiquarian, rare and second-hand book, map, print and ephemera calendar.
In 2022 more than 75 dealers will offer tens of thousands of rare and collectable items, ranging in price from £2 to £10,000s.…
Earlier this month, the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport issued a temporary export ban on an early seventeenth-century music manuscript. Said to be worth more than £200,000, the handsomely bound manuscript is “one of the most extensive and important sources of lute music” and…
Los Angeles – The Getty Research Institute has acquired The Whitney and Lee Kaplan African American Visual Culture Collection.
The collection primarily documents Black visual culture in the United States, but also captures the broader context of art of the African diaspora with its inclusion…
Sara Gran, LA novelist and screenwriter, has a new bibliomystery out entitled "The Book of the Most Precious Substance." We featured her book in Rebecca Rego Barry's Spring 2022 Books About Books Roundup, where Rebecca called it "easily one of the most compelling biblio
Philadelphia — A searing rebuke of slavery and a soaring defense of human equality, a 1774 newspaper printing of a letter written by African American poet Phillis Wheatley is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Revolution.
The newly acquired document is an original…
An Elizabethan-era book has been discovered in an unlikely, yet absolutely perfect, location: “under straw in the eaves of a thatched cottage in north Wiltshire,” according to the UK-based auction house that is offering the book for sale on April 6.
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries announces an auction of Photography and Fine Art - The Jack and Beverly Waltman Collection on April 7th, 2022. The sale consists of 420 lots featuring the magnificent photography collection of Jack and Beverly Waltman. Jack Waltman, an accomplished photographer in his…
