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New Catalog of Auction Catalogs

Hervé | September 27, 2007

One of the things the book elves love about country life is going to country auctions. There just seems to be no end to the stuff we need that they find there (although I am thinking of returning the goat). But before the book elves wheeled into the yard last night with 3 boxes of Limoges soup bowls

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The Aristocratic House Clearance

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“Walking down the drive of the house really is like taking a walk back in time and many of the items remained untouched for years, especially in the library where some books have been in that room for more than 250 years.”

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Chaucer Book Sells For $180,000 at Inaugural Bloomsbury Auction

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NEW YORK, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ — At the inaugural auction held today
at Bloomsbury Auction House, 6 W. 48th Street, an undisclosed phone bidder
paid $180,000, including the auctioneer’s commission, for The Kelmscott
Chaucer, a complete works for Canterbury Tales author, Geoffrey Chaucer,
pub

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Sale of Magnitude

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Yesterday Sotheby’s revealed details of their upcoming sale of The Magna Carta - the last existing copy in private hands. During the week of December 10, 2007, the New York auction house will offer the document regarded as “the birth certificate of freedom” (Sotheby’s) and considered to be the most

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Ptolemical Sale

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Ketterer Kunst is holding an auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Autographs on Monday the 19th and Tuesday the 20th of November at 1 Meßberg, Hamburg. One of the star items to go on sale is the 1525 Strasbourg edition of the Geographicae enarrationis by the mathematician and astronomer Claudius

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Book fair aims to uncover citys literary past

Hervé | September 26, 2007

An organizer of next month’s Santa Fe Antiquarian Book Fair says he hopes the event will bring attention to the city’s literary traditions.

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