Auctions

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
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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
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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…
The handwritten Declaration coming to auction
$3m Declaration of Independence Handwritten Manuscript Found in Library Book
A handwritten manuscript of the Declaration of Independence comes to auction next week at Christie's after initially being bought at a library sale.