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Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries announced an auction of Fine Literature – Science Fiction & Mystery on January 7th, 2021. Offerings will include over 450 lots of fine literature, science fiction and mystery books. Section One comprises a wide variety of modern literature (with some earlier works…
Westport, CT – A four-page manuscript consisting of nearly 2,300 words written entirely in the hand of English physicist Sir Isaac Newton, a World War II-dated letter written in English by Albert Einstein in which he reveals that Nazi leaders didn’t give much thought to his Theory of…
New York – Christie’s presents Americana Week 2021, a series of three live and online sales comprised of Outsider Art on January 21, In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides on January 21-22, and an online-only sale of Chinese Export Art Featuring…
The Library of Congress has completed a more than two decade-long initiative to digitize the papers of nearly two dozen early presidents.
A copy of the Bible bound for King Charles II, and reputed to have been used by his father Charles I at his execution on 30 January 1649, sold for £220,250. Known as the Stoneywood Bible, after the house near Aberdeen where it was kept for many years, it had been estimated at £20,000-30,000.
This month RR Auction’s December specialty sale is a curated Apple auction that boasts a historic array of early Apple-related material that will be auctioned on December 17.
London — The British Library announces it has acquired the Melford Hall manuscript, a rare seventeenth-century volume of poetry by John Donne (1572 – 1631), one of the best known poets of the late Tudor and early Stuart periods.
A rare signed copy of Sun Yat-sen’s First Edition of his book The International Development of China, will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on December 10, 2020.
Dallas, TX – In 1956, upon the occasion of L. Frank Baum’s 100th birthday, Justin Schiller loaned to Columbia University impossible-to-find copies from the author’s Land of Oz series. At the time, Schiller, the sole son of antique-hunters, was all of 12 years old.
For the second time in as many auctions, the Steve Turner Collection of African Americana once again surpassed its presale estimate at Cowan’s Auctions.
