October 29, 2024Rick StattlerPrinted & Manuscript Americana Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana — November 21, 2024 Read more about Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana — November 21, 2024 This sale strikes a particularly rich vein of western mining material from Alaska, California, Colorado, and Nevada.
Read more about Dream vs. Reality in the Civil War April 6, 2018 Printed & Manuscript Americana Dream vs. Reality in the Civil War Personal correspondence and manuscript material are always a highlight in our auctions of Printed & Manuscript Americana. On April 12, we’ll be offering a selection letters from Thomas Belknap, a clerk…
Read more about Records & Results: Early Printed Books October 20, 2017 Books & Manuscripts Records & Results: Early Printed Books Our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books garnered eager interest from bibliophiles, exceeding the sale’s high estimate and earning more than half a million dollars.…
Read more about Diary of a Syrian-American Woman, 1908 September 26, 2017 Printed & Manuscript Americana Diary of a Syrian-American Woman, 1908 On a trip to her homeland, a young Syrian-American woman named Mary Arbeely kept a diary recording her attempts to connect with her ancestors while feeling deeply homesick. The diary,…
Read more about Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books June 12, 2017 Maps & Atlases Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books Our June 7 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books saw strong results with multiple auction debuts and records, as well as a plethora of unique…
Read more about Leaving the Land: Ship’s Logs from England to the Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century May 30, 2017 Maps & Atlases Leaving the Land: Ship’s Logs from England to the Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century In January of 1819, Captain William Hodgson steered the three-masted merchant ship Transit down the River Avon from Bristol, beginning a six-month voyage toward the Mediterranean. The ship’s log book he…
Read more about Thomas Hart Benton Links Pollock and Rubens May 3, 2017 Autographs Thomas Hart Benton Links Pollock and Rubens In 1926, Thomas Hart Benton was a teacher at the Art Students League of New York. Disappointed by the lack of a painting manual, he set about writing his own.…