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The actual physical auction catalog is limited to print runs which started in 2005 when the major auction houses created their own app. Since 2020, it is rare that you can purchase the physical auction catalog. The auction is completely cataloged online. [3]: 4 Bidding is done online and the auction results can only be printed online. The ...
He also advanced the idea of book collecting as a means of investment and published several articles and books to increase interest in rare books and manuscripts. He bought and sold numerous items throughout his life, including eight Gutenberg Bibles , more than 30 Shakespeare's First Folios , [ 3 ] a copy of the Bay Psalm Book and the ...
The three volume Newton sale catalogue remains a useful reference for literature collectors. A. Edward Newton Bookplate. Newton was a resident of Daylesford, Pennsylvania and resided in the home called Oak Knoll. [2] Newton's bookplate referred to his home Oak Knoll and depicted an image of the London Temple Bar.
The auction catalogue for the sale in November 1921 of material sequestered from Raoul Heilbronner. Raoul Heilbronner (died 1941) [1] was a German-born [2] art and antiques dealer operating in Paris from before 1887 who supplied many of the important collectors of his era, including Sir Joseph Duveen, Henry E. Huntington and William Randolph Hearst. [3]
In another auction, Tina Fey's book of humorous essays went for $5.5 million to $6 million, while former President Jimmy Carter's White House diaries sold for "around $1 million" according to ...
That year, booksellers, intellectuals, librarians, and collectors of rare books throughout Europe received a catalogue describing a collection of rare books to be auctioned. According to the message, "Jean Nepomucene Auguste Pichauld, Comte de Fortsas", had been a collector of unique books — books of which only one copy was known to exist.
Stephan Loewentheil (born 1950) is an American antiquarian and a rare book and photograph collector. He is the founder and president of the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop, located in New York, New York and Baltimore, Maryland. Over a career spanning four decades, Loewentheil "has excelled … in unearthing obscure bibliographic ...