A preview of some of the auctions coming up this spring
Two major sales at Freeman’s Chicago and Philadelphia locations this spring and summer will bring many highpoints of literature and Americana under the hammer.
Signed photographs of President Abraham Lincoln are exceedingly scarce, in part because the president’s life was cut dramatically short when he was assassinated in 1865, mere decades after the advent…
Ed Hotchner and I just drove her 4094 miles from Ketchum to Key West … ,” writes a legend of American literature in a letter offered at Potter & Potter’s Fine Books & Manuscripts auction in…
A preview of some of the auctions coming up this autumn
Potter & Potter’s November 2025 auction will be a two-consignor sale, offering simultaneously two major book and art collections from Louis A. Irmo and Dr. George D. Lacy.
"To call this book exceptional would be an understatement,” said Christopher Brink, Senior Specialist in Books & Manuscripts at Hindman, referring to a presentation copy of Ernest Hemingway’s…
"While the power of time travel remains beyond the capability of science, nothing comes closer than a good manuscript diary,” said Rick Stattler, Books & Manuscripts Director at Swann, referring…
A preview of some of the auctions coming up this spring
A spectacular selection of early books about astronomy and the development of the Scientific Revolution from the personal library of American astronomer and historian Owen Gingerich (1930-2023) will…
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