Captain Bligh’s A Voyage to the South Sea
Land, Sea, and Air
The Northwest Passage, an infamous mutiny, and NASA limited editions take pride of place at Potter & Potter Auctions’s Terrestrial and Celestial sale on April 18. 
Bastille
A Storybook Year
Both Freeman’s and Hindman were among the most respected and successful houses in the category prior to their merger, with a laundry list of auction records and historic results to their names. It…
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Poems. Poems Second Series.
American and English Literature
Freeman's | Hindman secured its place as one of the leading auction houses in the books and manuscripts category with over $3 million in sales this past June. Leading the charge was the sale of…
Banditti of the Prairies and His Dark Materials
Dæmons and a Blue-Green Abelard
Potter & Potter Auctions is gearing up for a major book auction this fall with its sale Fine Books & Manuscripts slotted for November 21st. Chad Reingold of Potter & Potter said, “Potter…
Ernest Hemingway, WWI Photo Album Documenting his Service in the Ambulance Corps
Hemingway’s WWI Service
A photo album compiled by a New Jersey volunteer named Johnson who served in the Red Cross Ambulance Service during World War I is a highlight of the Fine Books auction at Swann Auction Galleries on…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Focus on Women
Swann Galleries’ May 23 Focus on Women sale is really a story about stories. It marks the fifth in the series since the New York-based auction house launched its successful inaugural sale in July…
The presentation copy of Langston Hughes’s Scottsboro Limited inscribed to his friend Noël Sullivan
From Moby-Dick to the Worlds of Tomorrow
Earlier this year, the pioneering, full-service auction house Hindman announced a merger with venerable 200-year-old Philadelphia-based Freeman’s. The union of these two pre-eminent businesses has…
George Catlin, Wild Horses at Play, 1844
Complete Copy of Curtis’s The North American Indian Heads to Auction
On November 9, Hindman Auctions will offer Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection, with significant works in the fields of Americana, ornithology, travel and exploration, literature, and color…
Charles Dana Gibson, And you believed the guides, illustration
The State of Illustration Art Collecting
Swann Auction Galleries will be closing out their auction year with an Illustration Art sale set for December 14. Swann’s Illustration Art Specialist, Skye Lacerte, discussed her background with us,…
Vladimir Nabokov's Russian translation of Alice
Rare Nobu Shirase and Alice in Wonderland Titles in Fall Auctions
Between 1910 and 1912, Japanese explorer Nobu Shirase led the first non-European expedition to reach the South Pole. While the pole attempt was ultimately unsuccessful, the Japanese Antarctic…
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