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Minneapolis — Minnesota Center for Book Arts is proud to announce the acquisition of beautiful new wood type in Hebrew and Arabic, plus Spanish and Swedish glyphs. With this movement beyond English wood type, MCBA plans to expand potential audiences and practitioners of letterpress printing.
Chicago – This month, Hindman will present three days of fine art sales featuring more than 300 works of art. The trio of auctions begin with American and European Art on December 13, followed by Post War and Contemporary Art on December 14 and ending with Prints and Multiples on December 15.…
Boston — With 1,000 lots up for bidding, RR Auction's December Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction features an extraordinary wealth of scientific autographs—Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Alfred Nobel, Nikola Tesla, James Watt, Henri Poincare, and Charles Darwin are among the key names.
Runnemede, NJ -- Movie fans have a rare opportunity to bolster their film collections as vintage and unopened VHS tapes are up for sale as part of Goldin’s largest-ever Pop Culture Auction which opens today. Among the rare films in the auction are a 1974 copy of The Godfather Part II signed by Al…
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England — An exceptionally rare 15th-century illuminated manuscript almanac, which was found in the back of a drawer, sold for £95,000 ($126,600) plus buyer’s premium in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on 24th November. Having been part of a private…
Dallas — A first edition of Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark signed by Steven Spielberg, who turned it into a seven-time Oscar-winning motion picture. Copies of Tarzan novels inscribed by Edgar Rice Burroughs to his son Hulbert, for whom he drew adorable illustrations. A Shoeless Joe autographed…
Dallas — One of the first public printings of the Bill of Rights will cross the auction block this month as part of Heritage Auctions' Dec. 9-10 Rare Books Signature® Auction.
Paris – One of the most important scientific autographs ever offered at auction: a 54-page manuscript written jointly by Albert Einstein and Michele Besso sold €11,656,560 / £9,803,667/ $13,156,521, quadrupling its pre-sale estimate, realising a new world auction for any science manuscript and the…
London – There was a time not so long ago when the Collected Works of Charles Dickens, like the Bible and Shakespeare, could be found on the shelves of most homes across Britain. But looking at such forbidding leather-bound volumes, it’s easy to forget that many of Dickens’ full-length novels…
Paris – On November 22, 2021, the Rare Books and Manuscripts auction realised a total of €5,277,625/ £4,438,709 / $5,956,748 more than three times the low presale estimate and selling 97% by value. The sale attracted bidders from all over the world (registered bidders from 38 countries) and…
