Sotheby's
235 years ago, America’s Founding Fathers signed the United States Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, marking the formation of the country’s most significant and lasting document—as
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:
London - Sotheby’s are set to offer the second tranche of one of the greatest botanical libraries,
The Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History sale at Sotheby's London ends on Tuesday, No
Another busy week coming up in the sale rooms:
London - In a rare appearance at auction, a magnificent folio from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh has sold for £8,061,700 / $9,091,179.
As the four Folios of Shakespeare are the highest prize of English book-collecting, and the Foligno Dante of Italian, so the early editions
Another very busy week for bibliophiles coming up in the auction rooms.
London — The Shahnameh – or ‘Book of Kings’ – made for Shah Tahmasp of Persia (r.1524-76) is one of the finest illustrated manuscripts in existence.
