Auctions

Hocus Pocus, or The Art of Conjuration
Ricky Jay's English-Printed Historical Broadsides to Auction
A range of rare books and works on paper from The Ricky Jay Collection will go on sale next week.
Front covers of Evelyn Waugh books "Unconditional Surrender," "Officers and Gentlemen," "Men at Arms".
Kennedy Family Ephemera, Dada Posters, Hardy Boys: Auction Preview
At New England Auctions on Tuesday, February 18, 207 lots of Literature, Children's Prints & Ephemera, including a first issue copy of Joseph Conrad's Notes on Life & Letters (1921) and an…
The Importance of Being Earnest
Barry Humphries' Oscar Wilde First Edition Sold for £138,600
The Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection sale at Christie's has realised a total of £4,627,224 from a variety of lots of books, art, and Dame Ed
Triptych illustration of the Sino-Japanese War, showing an explosion with a rearing horse in the foreground.
Victor Hugo Drawings, Barry Humphries's Wilde Collection, Presidential Letters: Auction Preview
Here's what I'll be watching this week:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy at Forum Auctions
New World Record Set for Sale of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
A new world record has been set at Forum Auctions when a fully signed, first edition, first impression set of the The Lord of the Ri
Kauffer maquette for BP poster, reads "BP plus, plus a little something that some others haven't got."
Chat Noir Poster, Snakes, and Champollion: Auction Preview
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The Astronomia nova
Johannes Kepler’s Mysterium cosmographicum Sold for World Record for $327,600
Leading the auction results at Christie’s' latest Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts sale was Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia nova which went for $327
The Importance of Being Earnest
Barry Humphries's Collection of Oscar Wilde First Editions to Auction
Significant works by Oscar Wilde, Ronald Firbank, and Aubrey Beardsley lead Christie’s' Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection auction o
Opening from Johannes Kepler's Astronomia novia (1609).
Signed Tolkien, Gingerich's Astronomy Library, Early Hippocrates: Auction Preview
Here's what I'll be watching this week:
Map of "Nova Francia" from the 1633 de Laet atlas
Moroccan Rabbinical Manuscripts, Early Declaration Broadside, FDR Presentation Copy: Auction Preview
At Kedem Auctions on Tuesday, January 21, Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection, in 200 lots. A large volume of manuscript rulings and responses by…