Auction Guide Spring 2020 | Fine Books & Collections

Auction Guide Spring 2020

Auction Guide Autumn 2019

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Metal Works

Heritage
Madison's Gift

Hindman Auctions
An Exceptional Year

Swann
For the Love of Early Books

Visual Art

From Superman #75

Original Art from 'The Death of Superman' to Auction

A Chicana Printmaker’s Radical Archive

Matisse’s Late-Career Cut-Outs Show an Artist Overcoming Limitations

Americana

Clemens business card

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Rare Books

The Shikshapatri by Sahajananda Swami (Lord Swarminarayan)

Sacred Hindu Shikshapatri Text On Tour to Mark Bicentenary

Lexington Deed, Banknotes Album, and Josephus Translation: The Week in Rare Books

Autograph Album Featuring Jane Austen: Rare Book of the Week

Auctions

The Virginia Woolf letter

Virginia Woolf Letter Dismissing Her Work to Auction

Queen Elizabeth I Letter, Stuyvesant Land Grant, and Jefferson–Madison Appointment to Auction

Unique Collection of 16th Century French Poetry to Auction

Photographs

A group of 14 Carte de Visites of Abraham Lincoln and family

Cartes de Visite: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

Getty Acquires Photographer Irving Penn’s 'Cuzco' Work

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Exhibitions

First edition of Sean O’Casey’s play The Plough and the Stars, a Tragedy in Four Acts (1926), inscribed to painter Augustus John

New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival

National Library of Scotland’s Centenary Tour Heads to Shetland

'Pets & their People' Exhibition Launches Season of the Natural World Series

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Book People

BBC Announces Major New Series on Charles Dickens for National Year of Reading

ESA Ephemera Fair 2026 Opens Today

Future of William Wordsworth's Rydal Mount Home Secured