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Matisse's Jazz
French Bibliophile Pierre Brossette's Artists' Books Collection Sold for €6.2M
Christie's' Cabinet des Livres by Pierre Brossette sale of the Lyon businessman's collection totalled €6,163,668, exceeding the sale's high estimat
Opening from Miró and Éluard's "A toute épreuve" (1958).
Lincoln Rarities, Éluard-Breton Association Copy, Superman #1: Auction Preview
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…
Map of the world titled on red banner "Tea Revives the World."
Andersen Rarities, NASA Photos, Qur’an Manuscripts: Auction Preview
Bonhams Paris holds an online sale on Monday, April 28, For All Mankind: The Artistic Legacy of Early Space Exploration. The 449 lots are NASA photographs from the collection of Victor Martin-…
Detail from from the Timurid Manuscripts, the Nahj-Al-Faradis. Estimate £2,000,000 - £3,000,000 ($2,600,000 - $3,900,000)
The Nahj al-Faradis: Rare Book of the Week
This week's Rare Book of the Week comes up for auction at Christie’s in its spring sale of Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds on May 1, an extremely rare
Where the Wild Things Are, New York, Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first state, from the author’s library. Estimate: $6,000-$9,000.
Maurice Sendak's Works and Collection to Auction to Fund Special Fellowship
More than 100 works by artists who inspired illustrator Maurice Sendak as well
Covers of the three volumes of the "South Polar Times".
Potter Rarities, Signed Harper Lee, Bounty Narratives: Auction Preview
At Hansons Auctioneers on Tuesday, April 15, The Harry Potter Auction (timed online sale), featuring 23 lots of Potter rarities. A copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince containing a variety…
Pages 14 and 15 of Historia Coelestis, with marginal corrections and annotations by Crothswait
Historia Coelestis by John Flamsteed: Rare Book of the Week
This week's Rare Book of the Week is copy of the first Astronomer Royal
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 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