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To mark 100 years since Marilyn Monroe was born, The New York Historical presents a new exhibition…
A wrist-mounted checklist containing Gene Cernan’s handwritten instructions for repairing a damaged…
Auctions
York, PA – Hake’s Auctions, specialists in Americana and collectibles since 1967, set a new house record when their February 24-25 Premier Auction #231 cashed out at $2,888,163. Not only did the auction set a new monetary record for Hake’s, it also achieved new highs for sell-through rate (98%),…
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New York — Fine Photographs feature at Swann Galleries on March 11 with works spanning from the late 1800s to the 2000s with exceptional images from European and American masters including works by Alfred Stieglitz, Brassaï, Dorothea Lange, and Peter Hujar.
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Leyburn, England -- The Chris Casson Collection of Early 20th Century Literature will be at the heart of Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Ephemera Sale on 10th March. The collection has a particular focus on Modernist literature, and the expatriate writers who gathered in Paris in the 1920s.…
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Berkshire, England — The public will be offered an amazing opportunity to obtain a piece of important space history when Dreweatts auctioneers holds an exciting sale of Space Exploration Photography and Ephemera on March 17, 2021. This landmark sale is to include more than 600 photographs…
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Los Angeles – A scarce copy of 20 Hrs. 40 Mins., one of only 150 signed by Amelia Earhart, was auctioned Thursday night for $10,938 by Nate D. Sanders Auctions.
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Beloit, Wisconsin – Beloit Auction & Realty, one of the country’s most respected full-service auction companies has announced The Columbus Museum & Chicago 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) Online Auction. Honoring the legacy of Christopher Columbus, the online auction will…
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Washington, D.C. — The Library of Congress has acquired more than 200 sketches of the Rodney King police brutality trials against four Los Angeles police officers in the 1990s, drawn by courtroom sketch artist Mary Chaney (1927-2005). Rodney Glen King (1965-2012) was an unarmed African-American…
Catalogues
Henley-on-Thames, England — Jonkers Rare Books is delighted to announce a new catalogue of rare books devoted to Nineteenth Century Literature. The selection, almost the entirety of which is new to stock and acquired during the the last twelve months of lockdowns and disruptions, includes fine…
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Brooklyn, NY — We are delighted to announce the fifth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the United States.
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New York –– The 83rd Rare Posters Auction from Poster Auctions International slated for Sunday, March 14th features masterpieces and rarities from a century of poster design. Top artists include Cappiello, Cassandre, Mucha, and Toulouse-Lautrec. All 500 lots will be on view to the public February…