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Records & Results: Early Printed Books
Our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books garnered eager interest from biblio…
The First Accounts of Captain Cook’s Fateful Voyage
A transportive highlight in our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books is the r…
Magnum Photographs: 70th Anniversary
Magnum Photos, founded as a cooperative agency in 1947, is perhaps the most well-known photographic collective in th…
Records & Results: African-American Fine Art
Four works exceeded $100,000 at our sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 5. A wealth of unique pai…
Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Hoards of history-lovers came out to attend the preview for our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on Sep…
Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
We opened our fall season with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, breaking multiple r…
Four Unique Works by Charles White Debut at Auction
The highlight of our October 5 auction of African-American Fine Art is a series of unique works by Charles White tha…
Alma Thomas’s Journey to Abstraction
Alma Thomas is renowned for her brightly colored abstract works that seem to dance across canvas and paper, but how …
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 c…
A Nineteenth-Century Honolulu Gossip Rag
The book arrived in Honolulu by ship from San Francisco on New Year’s Day, 1863, and soon caused a stir throug…
John Biggers Mural Damaged by Hurricane Harvey
As Hurricane Harvey roared through Houston last month, an unlikely victim was left behind: the monumental 1953 mural…
Who is Françoise Gilot?
The top lot in our September 19 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings is a masterful lithograph b…