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Category: Books, Manuscripts & Archives
Auction Industry, Press Release
Printed & Manuscript Americana at Swann April 15 Featuring a Noteworthy Collection of American Historical Prints
Bernard Romans, An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775, engraving, 1776. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000. New York—Printed & Manuscript Americana is at Swann Galleries on April 15 with a selection of American historical prints from a private collection, material from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars,…
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Items Signed By Jefferson, Einstein, Adam Smith And More Of History’s Brightest Luminaries Will Be Offered April 14th By University Archives
The full catalog showing all 356 lots is up for bidding and viewing now at University Archives’ website (www.UniversityArchives.com), as well as on three popular online bidding platforms. Exquisite portrait miniature of Thomas Jefferson attributed to the British miniaturist Robert Field (1769-1819), along with two locks of hair (one of…
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Rare Books and Incunabula Online Sale Achieves $162,164 on iGavel Auctions
Hanapis, Nicolaus de. S. Bonaventure, Breviloquium Biblia Pauperum-Venice-1477 New Braunfels TX: iGavel Auctions is pleased to announce that its sale of rare books and incunabula achieved $162,164 including buyer’s premium. With 100 out of 200 lots going into overtime, bidding was highly competitive and resulted in prices far exceeding their…
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Fine Autograph and Artifacts featuring Hollywood in April 14 auction
James Dean Original Photograph by Roy Schatt. BOSTON, MASS.- With over 800 rare and remarkable items up for auction, R.R. Auction's April Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features something for every collector with online bidding March 26 - April 14. Highlights include books signed by John F. Kennedy; among them is a…
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Early Printed Books at Swann Galleries April 8
Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, second edition, Basel, 1566. Estimate $60,000 to $80,000. New York—Early Printed Books are at Swann Galleries Thursday, April 8 with noteworthy publications relating to early printed medical, scientific and travel works, including a selection of incunabula. Scientific books lead the sale with the second edition…
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Potter & Potter Auctions' March, 2021 Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale A Cover To Cover Success At Over $510,000 With A 96% Sell-Through Rate.
This exciting, 600 lot sales event featured extraordinary selections of antiquarian to modern titles that included first edition rarities and important letters. Audubon, Joan James, The Quadrupeds Of North America Chicago, March 13, 2021 - Potter and Potter's early spring literature event was a best seller in every regard. After…
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Rare Books and Incunabula Now Open for Bidding on iGavel Auctions
Gibbon, Ed. The History of the Decline and Fall New Braunfels TX: iGavel Auctions has announced that its sale of rare books and incunabula is now open for bidding through March 30th. Ranging from extremely rare 15th century texts to signed first editions of Ayn Rand's most popular titles Atlas Shrugged…
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Andrew Jones Auctions Will Continue A Streak Of Successful Online Auctions With A Design For The Home And Garden Auction On March 28
The auction, at 11 am Pacific time, is packed with antiques, fine art, antiquities, early works of art, rare books, silver, garden furniture and sculptures from prominent estates and collections. Oil on canvas painting by Jacques Martin-Ferrières (French, 1893-1972), titled Henri IV et le Pont Neuf (1918), 23 ¾ inches…
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leads sale of African Americana at Swann
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an early draft of the Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000. New York—Printed & Manuscript African Americana is on offer at Swann Galleries Thursday, March 25. The sale will feature an exceptional offering of material with highlights from important figures and historical…
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Charlton Hall Offers South Carolina Secession Document in 92nd Anniversary Sale
On December 20th, 1860, South Carolina removed itself from the United States of America with an official “Ordinance of Secession.” The document was signed by 171 South Carolinians. Approximately 200 copies of the South Carolina secession document were released as lithographs, many of which were sold as souvenirs. Some were…
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Swann Sets Auction Record for Frederick Douglass Autograph at $112K
Frederick Douglass, Autograph Letter Signed, to Sallie Holley recruiting her for the Frederick Douglass Paper, 1851. Sold for $112,500, a record for an ALS by Douglass. FINE BOOKS & AUTOGRAPHS Sale 2559; February 25, 2021 Sale total: $522,632 Estimates for sale as a whole: $304,400–$456,550 We offered 269 lots; 243…
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Potter & Potter's March, 2021 Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale to Include over 600 Lots of Antique to Modern Tomes, First Edition/First Printing Rarities, And Visually Stunning Livre d’Artiste Offerings.
Literary classics, detective fiction, and civil rights related materials and ephemera are also well represented in this signature early spring sale. Rembrandt Portrait of Jan Uytenbogaert Chicago, Il, February, 17, 2021 - Potter & Potter Auctions is excited to announce its upcoming Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale to be held…
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First Edition Copy of Moby-Dick and Early Work by John Steinbeck Highlight Literature Sale
Herman Melville's tale of revenge on the high seas, Moby-Dick; or The Whale, was not an instant success. Melville took a year longer to write it than expected, and it arrived with mixed reviews, including particularly unfavorable ones from America. A copy of the first American edition of Melville's Moby-Dick…
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Holabird Western Americana Collections Kicks Off The New Year In Style With A 5-day, 3,800-lot Sweetheart Express Auction, Feb. 11th-15th
The auction, held online and in the Reno, Nevada gallery, was a record-breaker for a multiple consignor Americana sale. It enjoyed a nearly 90 percent sell-through average per auction day. 1862 Lincoln silver Peace Medal, 62.5 mm, About Uncirculated, the only Presidential peace medal issued in a year other than…
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“American Classics and Signed Letters at Potter & Potter”
In 1939, Raymond Chandler published his novel The Big Sleep. The first to feature hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe, the book later inspired a classic film by the same title starring Humphry Bogart and Lauren Bacall. A first edition, first printing copy of this American classic is currently up for bid…
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Collection of Books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Comes to Auction Shortly After Poet’s Death
Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside City Lights. Photo from The Kitchen Sisters. During McCarthyism and an era of American censorship, Lawrence Ferlinghetti offered a home to new and strange writing. His San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, was the first to sell only paperbacks, making book-buying cheaper. Just two years after founding City…
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Items Signed By Lincoln, Jefferson, Einstein And More Of History’s Brightest Stars Will Be Auctioned March 3rd By University Archives
The full catalog showing all 408 lots is up for bidding and viewing now at University Archives’ website (www.UniversityArchives.com), as well as on three popular online bidding platforms. Two-page letter handwritten and signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, regarding the transportation of troops by…
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Historic Autographs, Americana, and Civil War Era Documents in Upcoming Early American History Event
Free Black American soldiers enrolled in the army alongside white soldiers for the first time in U.S. history during the Revolutionary War. Soldiers from many different backgrounds fought against the British colonizers. Leading the upcoming Early American History Auctions sale is a Continental Army muster roll from around 1779. It…
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Medical Literature and Memorabilia Available in Latest Bonhams Sale
Until the early 20th century, Johns Hopkins Hospital had to build its reputation as a top-flight medical institution despite outdated operating rooms. To raise patients' heads, for example, surgeons placed books under the legs of the operating table. When new facilities opened in 1904, Surgeon-in-Chief William Halsted decided to celebrate…
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Items Hand-selected From Three Major Southeastern Estates Will Come Up For Bid At Stevens Auction Company On Saturday, Feb. 27th
The auction will be held online and live at the gallery in Aberdeen, Mississippi. Many of the outstanding items that will come up for bid have been in the same families for over 140 years. Stunning circa 1890 11-piece mahogany R.J. Horner dining suite with cupids, an exact match suite…
