Rare Book Monthly

Articles - May - 2023 Issue

ON AUCTIONS - Contemporary Issues and Opportunities in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting

Perspective transforms collecting

Perspective transforms collecting

ON AUCTIONS - Contemporary Issues and Opportunities in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting

Monday, May 1, 2023 – 8:00 PM Eastern

Live free, Webinar

 

https://manuscript.org/event/manuscript-mondays-issues-opportunities/

 

For Collectors, Appraisers, Booksellers & Special Collections Librarians

 

Following up on his recent publication Contemporary Issues in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting: https://spencerwstuart.myshopify.com/products/contemporary-issues-in-rare-book-manuscript-collection-a-handbook-for-collectors-and-the-trade

 

Spencer will share his current research on the state of the rare book and manuscript auction activity through 2022 and 2023 as well as issues within the Trade that will impact private and institutional collecting for the foreseeable future.

Rare Book Monthly

  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR

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