Bonhams Appoints Ian Ehling to Head of Fine Books & Manuscripts, North America
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's annotated copy of the 1957-58 Harvard Law Review, Volume 71. Cambridge, MA
Bonhams has promoted Ian Ehling to Head of Fine Books & Manuscripts, North America, after 40 yeas in the field appraising thousands of the rarest books to come to market, as well as advising prestigious collectors, libraries, and institutions.
During his time at Bonhams, Ehling has been responsible for many record-breaking sales including a Columbus letter ($751,500); Einstein's violin ($516,500); Charles Darwin's Origin of Species ($500,000); Nuremberg Chronicle ($437,812); two world auction records for Kepler scientific manuscripts ($882,375 and $1,008,375); the white glove sale of the complete collection of the books published by the Kelmscott Press, and the sale of the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ($2.4m).
Ian's career began in a Munich bookstore in 1982, following by moves to an antiquarian bookseller in Berlin. In 1993, he moved to New York to join Christie's, rising to become a Senior Specialist in 2000. He joined Bonhams in 2017. He is one of Bonhams' principal auctioneers, a regular contributor to the PBS series the Antiques Roadshow, and has been a member of the Grolier Club since 1999.
