Forum Auctions

Date(s)

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020

Auctions

Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

1pm

Forum Auctions
220 Queenstown Road
Nine Elms

London, UK

51.4746948, -0.14617429999998

Forum Auctions

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Visual Art

America's Answer! Production (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942)

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Yuletide at Winterthur Offers Literature-Inspired Festive Experiences

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction

Americana

James Monroe, Robert R. Livingston, and Francois Barbe-Marbois documents signed for the Ratification of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty (estimate: $20,000+)

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the Louisiana Purchase Lead Presidents Sale

Railroadiana Ephemera: Five Rare Items for Collectors

Steve Jobs Signed Apple Check No. 1 Sold for $2.4m at Auction

Exhibitions

A section of the errata slip for James Joyce’s Ulysses

Printing Errors Celebrated in Upcoming Yale Library Exhibition

Complete and Gilded Book of the Dead Goes on View for First Time

Jack Kerouac's Origins Explored In New Grolier Exhibition

Book People

Richard C Ramer

Rare Book Community Mourns Death of Richard C. Ramer

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Honorable Mention Amalia V on Collecting Sex

New Newberry Library $4m Grant Will Expand Access to Indigenous Studies Collections

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Photographs

Left, Brassaï, A happy group at the Quartre Saisons (Groupe joyeux au bal musette de Quatre-Saisons), c.1932. Gelatin silver print. Right: Brassaï, Girls in miniskirts at Les Halles (Filles aux Halles en Mini-jupe), 1930s Gelatin silver print.

'Brassaï’s Secret Paris' Opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York

Collector Jaeden Yoshikawa on Real Photo Post Cards and Lovers' Locations

New Exhibition Celebrates Photography in Children's Books

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Auctions

A correspondence from the California Gold Rush, Jonathan Palmer Webster, 1849-1850

Gold Rush Letters, 'Puck' cartoons, and 'Lucrèce Borgia' Photos: The Week in Rare Books

Rothschild Vienna Mahzor 15th Century Hebrew Prayerbook Sold for $6.4m

Groundbreaking Vega Expedition Polar Archive to Auction

Rare Books

Batman #1

Batman No. 1 and Superman No. 1 Comics Sell for $13m Total

Pacific Voyages: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Hemingway Letters: Five Rare Letters for Collectors