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Saturday, February 1st, 2025

Auctions

Wunderkammer: The Freeman & Fugate Oddities Collection

Ghosts, ghouls, taxidermy, spirit photos, "talking boards," circus memorabilia, and oddities of all types will cross the block this February at Potter & Potter. Featuring selections from the personal collection of James Freeman and Kate Fugate, this sale promises to be equal parts bizarre, amazing, and remarkable.

10am

Potter & Potter Auctions
5001 W. Belmont Avenue

Chicago, IL

41.938659414268, -87.7520424

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Visual Art

A selection from more than 200,000 items from the AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive

Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records

Rare ‘Son of Frankenstein’, Disney, and Orson Welles’ 'Macbeth' Posters to Auction

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

Auctions

Four printings of Roget's thesaurus, two in dust jackets.

John Harris Cover Art, Pan Am Poster, Sondheim's Thesauruses: 2024 Auction Sleepers

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments Sold For $5.04m

Isaac Newton's Handwritten Manuscript on Religion Sold for $69,870

Rare Books

The handbag Bible

Handbag Bible: Rare Book of the Week

Friends of the Nations’ Libraries Donates 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral

The Great Mongol Shahnama: Rare Book of the Week

Maps

F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902,

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Book Arts

Blue-Green Abelard

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Americana

Samuel Gerock’s pocket-sized almanac for the year 1777

Archive of First-Person Revolutionary War Accounts Donated to the Museum of the American Revolution

Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, and George Washington Autograph Documents to Auction

Manuscript Leaf from First Draft of 'Atlas Shrugged' to Auction

Exhibitions

Unseen chalk and pastel sketch of Dickens at the time he lived at Doughty St, believed to be a sketch for the lost third portrait by Samuel Laurence

Charles Dickens Museum Celebrates Centenary By Displaying Previously Unseen Items

Oscar Wilde’s Palms in New Exhibition About Divination

16th Century Gardening Manual, Secret War Maps, and Football Fanzines in British Library's 2025 Exhibitions

Photographs

Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny with two Marquesas islanders in Butaritari, Gilbert Islands, c. July 1889.

New Exhibition Focuses on Robert Louis Stevenson's Final Years in the Pacific

James Baldwin Centennial Marked with Rare Photographs in New Exhibition

Frank Hurley's Photographs of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Lead Exploration Auction

Sponsored

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Book People

Donna Marie Saunders

Book Collector Donna Marie Sanders on 19th and Early 20th Century Classics

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Winner Elena Wicker on Collecting American Military Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Lexicons

National Library of Ireland Acquires Additional Papers of Paul Durcan Archive