A complete set of Theodor de Bry's Voyages in Latin including both the Grands Voyages…
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Highlights from Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on May 29 include: * Haasis & Lubrecht's The American Union Railroad Map Of The United States, British Possessions, West Indies, Mexico, And Central America, large wax-engraved map of the…
Dealers at this year's Firsts London reported a genuine buzz as more than 4,000 people came through the doors at the Saatchi Gallery including many visitors from the US and sales of over £4.7 million were reported.
Artifacts from America's outlaw history go under the hammer at RR Auction this week.The Old West, Outlaws, Lawmen, and Gangsters sale closing on May 22 features a handwritten letter from Clyde Barrow to his brother, scrawled on the back of a photograph of one of the gang's Gulf Coast hideouts…
The Getty Villa Museum closed on the morning of January 7 when the site was threatened by the Palisades Fire, and since then Getty has worked closely with its own staff and partnering agencies to test the grounds to ensure that the site and buildings are safe for the public to return.
At Dominic Winter Auctioneers on Wednesday, May 21, 480 lots of Photographs, Postcards & Posters, Autographs, Documents & Ephemera, including about 1,000 postcards of the Seychelles from the collection of Sue Hopson (£7,000–10,000), from which several other lots in this sale are also drawn…
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron which explores the revolutionary work of one of photography’s most pioneering and influential figures runs at The Morgan Library & Museum from May 30 through September 14.
Unearthed: The Power of Gardening running through August 10 at the British Library is a major new exhibition exploring the transformative and sometimes radical power of gardening in Britain.Unearthed considers the role gardening has played in social and political movements from the Diggers and True…
The most substantial manuscript by Horatio Nelson still in private hands is being offered for sale at Firsts London running until May 18 at the Saatchi Gallery in London by Peter Harrington for £450,000.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World by Selena Wisnom
Researchers have confirmed that what was believed to have been a copy of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is actually an original from 1300.The authentication by Magna Carta experts from King’s College London and the University of East Anglia means the document is one of only seven surviving…
