Sotheby's

In its online Books and Manuscripts sale From Grolier to Godard ending today Sotheby’s is presenting 15 original drawings by Antoine Saint-E
Coming to auction at Sotheby’s later this month will be the Thirteenth Amendment (estimate: $8m-$12m) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimate: $3m-$5m
A green leather portfolio, believed to have housed the documents relating to the Louisiana Purchase and exhibited only once before in the United States nearly two decades ago, goes on public view a
The British Library has acquired five exceptional medieval manuscripts from the private library at Longleat House, providing fresh insight into Jewish-Christian rela
On Wednesday, June 4, University Archives sells 524 lots of Rare Autographs, Books & Space Memorabilia, including six volumes of Cicero from Thomas Jefferson's library ($150,000–200,000) and a…
One of the most comprehensive Napoleonic private collections to come to market including Napoleon Bonaparte's personal documents, bicorne hat, and campaign bed will go under the hammer at
Researchers have confirmed that what was believed to have been a copy of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is actually an original from 1300.
Bonhams Paris holds an online sale on Monday, April 28, For All Mankind: The Artistic Legacy of Early Space Exploration. The 449 lots are NASA photographs from the collection of Victor Martin-…
At Chiswick Auctions on Monday, March 31, 473 lots of Photographica, with an 1880s album containing thirty-two albumen photographs of Rio de Janeiro sharing the top estimate of £3,000–5,000 with a…
A previously-unseen partial manuscript for classic French movie À Bout de Souffle will go under the hammer at Sotheby's this summer with an estim