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April 3, 2025 PBA Galleries Auctioneers & Appraisers

Rare & Antiquarian
Sale #835

11am

PBA Galleries Auctioneers & Appraisers
605 Addison Street

Berkeley, CA  

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Auctions West
April 3, 2025 - April 6, 2025 65th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

The fair’s specialties encompass art, science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, first editions, Americana, philosophy, children’s books, and much more. From the historic and academic, the religious and spiritual—to the bedrock of secular culture, finance, and politics—the fair boasts offerings in every conceivable genre and subject.​

Thu, Apr 3rd: Opening Night Preview

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue

New York, NY

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Book Fairs Mid-Atlantic
April 3, 2025 Swann Auction Galleries

African American Art
Sale #2698

The auction will feature a standout selection of artworks from multiple periods spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Artists from the Harlem Renaissance and Modern era consist of Allan Rohan Crite, Meta Warrick Fuller, and Richmond Barthe. Represented in the Post-War era are works by Norman Lewis, Beauford Delaney, Romare Bearden, Charles Searles, and Hughie Lee-Smith. Contemporary artists Howardena Pindell, Suzanne Jackson, Thaddeus Mosley, and Ed Clark round out the auction.

12pm

EXHIBITIONS
Sat, Mar 29th 12pm - 5pm
Mon, Mar 31st 12pm - 5pm
Tue, Apr 1st 12pm - 5pm
Wed, Apr 2nd 12pm - 5pm

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY

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Auctions Mid-Atlantic
April 3, 2025 - April 10, 2025 AntiquarianAuctions.com

Online Auction 122

Featuring presentation copy of Hawking & Mlodinow's THE GRAND DESIGN with a greeting card. Both thumbprint signed by Stephen Hawking whilst on board the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line to the Canary Islands in 2014.

Also, a first UK edition of Stephen King's CARRIE, his first horror novel set in Chamberlain, Maine.

A fine and complete set, in the contemporary velum binding, of Valentyn's OUD EN NIEUW OOST-INDIEN, VERVATIENDE EEN NAAUKEURIGE EN UITVOERIGE VERHANDELINGE VAN NEDERLANDS MOGENTHEYD IN DIE GEWESTEN... set at a reserve price of $15,000.

Important botanical work by Dutch botanist Abraham Munting DE VERA ANTIQUORUM HERBA BRITANNICA with: ALOIDARIUM, SIVE ALOES MUCRANATO FOLIO AMERICANAE MAJORIS. In this work, he seeks to determine the identity of the "Herba Britannica" mentioned by the ancients, presenting potential candidates. The second work explores the aloe and other newly discovered American succulents.

16.30 GMT

AntiquarianAuctions.com
PO Box 186

Constantia, South Africa

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Auctions Virtual
April 5, 2025 Manhattan Rare Book & Fine Press Fair

BACK IN THE NEW YORK GROOVE

The Manhattan Rare Book and Fine Press Fair returns to the Upper East Side for one day only, inviting booksellers and bibliophiles from around the world to share their love of antiquarian books, fine press, ephemera, historic photography, and more.

This dynamic one-day event features twice as many antiquarian booksellers as last year, along with a curated selection of leading book artists and fine press printers.

The Manhattan Rare Book & Fine Press Fair will remain open an hour later this year.

9am - 5pm

Admission $20

Manhattan Rare Book & Fine Press Fair
Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
869 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY

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Book Fairs Mid-Atlantic