Rare Book Monthly

Articles - January - 2024 Issue

Registration Now Open for Collecting Insights with Spencer Stuart

COLLECTING INSIGHTS

 

Starting in 2024, experienced Collections Advisor and author of Contemporary Issues in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting, Spencer W Stuart will facilitate monthly, three-part webinars for Collectors at three major points:

 

• EMERGING (1 – 5 years): https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/collecting-insights-emerging-a-monthly-3-part-webinar-tickets-751806462367?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

01/24 – What is collecting?

02/28 – Implementing a strategy

03/27 – Cataloguing & collection care

 

• EXPANDING (5 – 20 years): https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/collecting-insights-expanding-a-monthly-3-part-webinar-tickets-751818548517?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

01/10 – Defining scope & scale

02/14 – On auctions & trade

03/13 – New collecting focuses

 

• LEGACY (20 years +): https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/collecting-insights-legacy-a-monthly-3-part-webinar-tickets-751822660817?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

01/17 – Planning your collection’s future

02/21 – Where & how to sell

03/20 – Placing your collection in an Institution

 

Through these hour-long sessions, participants will examine case studies relevant to acquiring as well as deaccessioning one’s collection.

 

After this three-part program, no matter where one is in their collecting, participants will emerge with a holistic approach that better positions them for the transformations underway in the Collecting ecosystem.

 

If you have any further questions regarding course content or appropriate webinar registration, please contact Spencer directly at either 604 363 1012 or spencerwstuart@gmail.com

 

All registrants will receive a copy of 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

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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