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Menus for May 31, 1961 dinner at the Élysée Palace as part of the official visit of President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy to France in 1961, their first state visit across the Atlantic.
More than 4,000 Menus Telling the Story of Gastrodiplomacy to Auction
A collection of 4,600 menus for meals served to world leaders on state visits to France goes under the hamme
S.I. Rookie cover of Kylian Mbappé
Goldin Announces Rollout of New Auction Category for CGC-Graded Magazines

Goldin is introducing its first major foray into the growing sector of CGC-Graded magazines.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
"One of the Finest Private Libraries in America" to Auction
The private library assembled by attorney William A.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun in a deluxe Cosway-style binding inset with 18 portrait miniatures. London: Grant Richards, 1904.
Focus on Women Writers at Swann Galleries' May Auction
Swann Galleries' May 23 Focus on Women sale includes books, pri
Stephen Shames photograph used in Ericka Huggins' Comrade Sisters
Black Panther Portraits, Babbage Presentation Copies, Signed Churchill Photograph: Auction Preview
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, May 21, 230 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera, including a set of the 1902 Book-Lover's Camden Edition of Whitman's works, a volume containing four nineteenth…
The napkin
Messi Napkin Contract for Barcelona FC Sold for Just Short of $1m
The napkin agreement which paved the way to bring the teenage Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona has been sold at Bonhams for £762,400 ($968,300).
John F. Kennedy's doodles
JFK's Handwritten Notes the Night Before His Assassination Sold for $34,504
Handwritten notes and doodles on stationery from Houston's Rice Hotel by President John F.
Plate from Bloch's Ichthyologie
Aldine Imprints, Chekhov’s First Book, Buffon’s Birds: Auction Preview
At Chiswick Auctions on Tuesday, May 14, 209 lots of Books and Works on Paper, including a William Nicholson boxing illustration (£26,000–28,000); Léon de Laborde's Voyage en Orient (1837–1845),…
The Einstein letters and envelopes
Four Autograph Letters from Albert Einstein to Mathematics Colleague to Auction
Correspondence between mathematics colleagues Albert Einstein and Herman Müntz will be up for aucti
The Abraham Lincoln endorsement
Abraham Lincoln Endorsement and Ronald Reagan's Books to Auction
Ronald Reagan's copy of Don Quixote is among numerous presidential lots coming to auction on May 15 at University Archives' Rare Signed Autogra