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Cleveland, OH - Gray's Auctioneers' Fine Furniture, Paintings and Decorations auction takes place on March 15 at 11am in Cleveland, Ohio. Live online bidding for this auction is provided by Live Auctioneers.  Offering two sessions, the first for Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Arts at 11am and the second for Fine Books, Autographs and No Reserve Books starting at 3pm.  With over 600 lots the auction highlights include lot 31, Tête de Femme, a charming, oil on canvas by ...

• The Drawings of Leon Dabo • In Search of the Source: Paintings of the Nile and Beyond by Lockwood de Forest • De Forest’s MONTEREY   MARCH 2012   Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery is thrilled to announce the publication of three new books this March!    The Drawings of Leon Dabo was written by gallery Director Jeremy Tessmer with a foreword by gallery owner Frank Goss. This scholarly study and comprehensive presentation ...

John James Audubon is known for his remarkable studies of American birds depicted in their natural habitats.  His The Birds of North America (1827-1839), in which he identified 25 new species and a number of new sub-species, is considered to be one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.  However, his studies of mammals are less well-known.  To complement The Compassionate Eye:  Birds and Beasts from the American Museum’s Print Collection, on view in the ...

  Following the success of last year’s inaugural Winter Sale, Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC is once again returning to New York City for their premier American art event. The sale, held in conjunction with Keno Auctions, marks the start of Americana Week on January 16, 2012 in Wallace Hall at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Park Avenue. This major sale of sporting art includes over 500 lots of paintings, prints, decoys, duck calls, fish carvings, rods, reels, Navajo ...

  This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents over 30 rare and storied objects from the museum’s renowned Phillips Library, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, original transcripts from the Salem witchcraft trials, and the first example of paper currency in the Western world. Boasting 400,000 books collected over three centuries, PEM’s Phillips Library is one of the largest and oldest museum libraries in the country. Through a selection of books, manuscripts, sketchbooks, maps ...

A beat-up copy of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe is expected to sell for over $20,000 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on August 9th. It is no ordinary used book – it belonged to the celebrated Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, who covered the book with doodles, inscriptions, paint and collaged leaves. To Frida, the book provided an outlet for her to engage in dialogue with the Poe’s mysterious and macabre poetry, and the result is one of the most intriguing artist’s books to appear on the market. The ...

Paul Klee, William Keith, Edward H. Bohlin and Queen Elizabeth I Will Attract Collectors to Oakland Auctioneer’s Two-Day Fine Arts & Antiques Sale. Clars auctioneers, appraising and selling fine art and antiques since 1948, will offer collectors a two-day sale February 5-6, 2011, with important works of fine art, Asian art, furniture, jewelry, books, manuscripts and collectibles offered from their Oakland salesroom with live bidding via the internet.  Top lots include a Paul Klee oil on ...

Following their announcement that they will relaunch The Ellis Boston Antiques Show on October 13-16, 2011 at The Cyclorama, Boston Center for The Arts, the show's producers, Tony Fusco and Robert Four, are pleased to announce their initial roster of exhibitors.   The show will feature 40 exhibitors of the highest quality, drawn from both past Ellis exhibitors as well as many new additions.    The show opens with a Gala Preview on Thursday, October 13 to benefit Ellis Memorial, Boston's first ...

With an overall result of € 1,9* million, the two day auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst made for the best result in this section for the last twenty years. The evening auction alone realized a stunning 74 percent sold lots and a quota of 128 percent*. The reason for this tremendous success is in “the very innovative catalog concept,“ said Robert Ketterer. The introduction of the evening auction made for a jump start. A catalog was developed just for this particular event, with the ...

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ November 18th Fine Books and Manuscripts auction was an outstanding success with 90% of all lots selling. The highlight of the sale was a hand-written draft chapter from Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad, which sold for $79,300 against a presale estimate of $30,000-50,000; an original hand-written high school essay by Ernest Hemingway sold for $7,320. Another item of note was a George Washington document signed as the President of the Potomac Company, which sold for ...

  Mark Polizzotti has been appointed Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will oversee all aspects of the Museum’s scholarly publishing program, it was announced today by Director Thomas P. Campbell.  Mr. Polizzotti is currently Director of Intellectual Property and Publisher at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He will begin work at the Metropolitan Museum on November 15. “I am delighted that Mark Polizzotti has agreed to join the Met, to lead and develop ...

Hugo Grotius' masterpiece “De iure belli ac pacis libri tres“ is of the outmost rareness, as only one other copy of the first print from the first edition of this fundamental writing on the modern law of nations is known worldwide. The book will be called up with an estimate of € 50.000 ($71,000) in the auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg, Germany, on 22/23 November. The first print of “De iure belli...“ was executed simultaneously on several presses in a hurry for the oncoming ...

On October 4th, the attention of collectors will be focused on Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts sale.  Simulcast to New York, the Los Angeles based sale is comprised of fine and rare first edition books, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera. Bonhams is proud to be the only auction house to offer bicoastal previews to our Books & Manuscripts clients.  Highlighting the sale will be the first edition of the first United States census, which was conducted in 1790 under the direction of ...

 On June 22, Christie's is privileged to offer the sale of Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including the finest collection of William Faulkner books and manuscripts. This unique collection comprises a virtually complete representation of Faulkner's work, with every major novel, each in an exceptional state of preservation. Formed over a quarter century, this private collection includes over 80 lots of scarce manuscripts, ephemera, photographs and journal contributions, rarely seen in ...

Realizing total proceeds of € 1,2* million, the two day auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst on 17/18 May in Hamburg was a real success. With 83 percent lots sold, the special evening auction was a true highlight. “This clearly shows that the market for rare books is extremely stable and reliable, a fact that also makes this exciting section interesting for art lovers“, said Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. The TOP 5€ 70.000* Call-up price: € 35.000No. 24: Fleurs du ...

Under the direction of Melanie Halloran, Gray’s new Director of Books and Manuscripts, Gray’s are proud to announce the results of their inaugural Fine Printed Books auction which took place May 6, 2010.  Auctioneer & President Deborah J. Gray declares that over 80% of lots sold by value, with several lots selling above their estimates. Among the highlights of the auction were: Lot 44: Diderot's 3 volume Suite de Recueil des Planches from his Encylopedie published circa 1779.  A ...

Gray’s Auctioneers presents its first Fine Printed Books Auction, to be held Thursday May 6, 2010 at 1 pm, in which travel guides, illustrated books, art books, modern first editions, and sets are all well-represented. Among the highlights of the sale is a third edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece Frankenstein, being the first edition to include an illustration of the monster as well as Shelley’s introduction in which she explains the foundation of the story written while on holiday ...

They had to be pretty and rare, the flowers that were accepted into the baroque florilegium "Fleurs du Printemps et de L'Este", which will be sold in the auction of Rare Books - Manuscripts - Autographs - Decorative Prints and Maritime and North German Art at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on 17/18 May. Besides sketches of domestic and exotic flowers, the florilegium also contains 19 illustrations of tulips, which were the most valuable flowers by far in those days. The sense for an esthetic ...

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announces an auction featuring over 75 lots of early Italian and Latin literature from the antiquarian book library of John Sisto of Berwyn, Illinois. The books, maps and engravings comprise what remains of the over 3,500 items seized by the Chicago division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2007, of which 1,600 items were repatriated to Italy after being deemed unlawfully imported. The collection had been brought to the attention of the FBI by Mr. ...

  The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Stephen J. Bury to the post of Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library. For the past ten years, he has been at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, and one of the world’s greatest research institutions, where he is a Deputy Director and Head of European and American Collections, as well as Maps, Music, and Philatelic Collections. Previously, Dr. Bury was Head of ...

The Wright Stuff: Exceptional Frank Lloyd Wright Archive to Highlight Valentine's Day Auction at Bonhams & Butterfields Included within the 400-lot Bonhams & Butterfields Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February 14, 2010 is a massive archive of photographs, correspondence and select building plans related to groundbreaking architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright.  Assembled by Professor Henry Russell Hitchcock for the landmark 1942 treatise In the Nature of Materials, ...

Simulcast between Los Angeles and New York, the October 19, 2009 auction of Fine Books and manuscripts garnered international attention with competitive bidding both on the telephone and via absentee bid.  "It was an energetic sale reflecting the strength and continuing interest in Hollywood history, Hawaiiana and historical documents.  We saw strong participation from the East Coast and abroad," said Dr. Catherine Williamson, Department Director, Fine Books and Manuscripts.  ...

Fine arts auctioneer Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to offer Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on October 19, 2009.  Included within the 525-lot sale is an amazing selection of surfing history and artifacts from the Collection of Mark Blackburn, Honolulu, Hawaii.  The collection covers the history of surfing from the wave-riding of the indigenous Hawaiian people through the fiberglass boarding of the present day. Highlighting the offerings are the mammoth signed framed ...