Current Events & Trends | March 25, 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Arcana Auction

From the BBC today a preview of the Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula, to be sold by Christie's in July: A collection of manuscripts previously owned by kings, bishops and members of the aristocracy is expected to fetch up to £16m when it is sold at auction. Read on.

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Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Photographs

Gustave le Gray (1820-1884) Marine, bateau quittant le port, 1856-1857 (estimate: €500,000-€700,000)

Iconic French Photography from Roger Therond's Collection to Auction

Marilyn Monroe Photos by Lawrence Schiller On Show Next Month

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' Location Photos to Auction

Maps

'Beggar' from Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis, c.1822, hand-coloured engravings by Thomas Lord Busby.

Charles Booth's Poverty Maps Lead New Housing Exhibition

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Rare Books

Colin Nicholson's maritime diary

Teenage Sailor’s Diary Records Desperate Escape from Victorian Pearl Trade

Cherokee Almanac, 1505 Avicenne, and Rutherford on the Neutron: The Week in Rare Books

Walt Whitman’s Working Manuscript of 'O brood continental' Leads Peter Harrington Poetry Catalogue

Book People

Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) Archivist Kristy Waller handling materials from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s artist files collection in ECU’s Special Collections + Artists’ Books room

Vancouver Improves Public Access to Thousands of Artists' Files

Bright Young Booksellers: Tom Carter

Book Collector Ryan R. Martins on Early Modern Curiosities, Books as Gifts, and Grangerization

Auctions

The Kennedy correspondence archive

Kennedy Family Correspondence Archive to Auction

I Have a Dream: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Draft

Darwiniana Collection Sold for $621,440 at Auction

Visual Art

The original Pilote cover for Astérix, Le Devin (Asterix and the Soothsayer)

Uderzo's Astérix Pages Break $500,000 Mark at Auction

Novelist Jilly Cooper's Favourite Art Works to Auction

Original Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs Titles Leads Illustration Auction

Americana

A page from the handwritten manuscript of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have A Dream speech

Only Handwritten Manuscript of Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech to Auction

Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Milwaukee Speech and First Ladies' Letters Acquired by Library of Congress

$12m Estimate for Washington's Acts of Congress Printing at Sotheby's

Exhibitions

The Lilliputian army marching beneath Gulliver in Florence Dugdale’s Gulliver’s Travels Told in Simple Language (1912)

300 years of 'Gulliver’s Travels' Celebrated in New Exhibition

I HAVE A DREAM: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Draft

Gulliver at 300

Sponsored

On the Origin of Species

First Edition of “On the Origin of Species” Features at Ripley

1859 First Edition of Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" to Lead Ripley Rare Books Auctions

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction