Fine Books News: Recent

Highlights of Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction…
The National Archives has announced that it will temporarily loan more than 30 historic documents,…
Auctions
A large selection of designs by Cecil Beaton including costume designs for My Fair Lady and Katharine Hepburn in Coco are at online auction at Bonhams until June 3.
Book People
Our new Rare Book of the Week is Albert Maumené's Les Abres Nains Japonais, the first book ever published in the West about Bonsai, which comes up for auction at ANNO on May 30.Published in Paris in 1902 by François Tedesco, only half a dozen copies are extant, and with no record of any sales in…
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A rare signed photograph of Al Capone sold for $62,501 in RR Auction's Old West, Outlaws, Lawmen, and Gangsters auction.
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One of only three known surviving copies of A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi (1644) has been acquired by The Sunderland Collection, the other two copies held by the National Archive in Beijing and the British Library in London. 
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Christie's' Cabinet des Livres by Pierre Brossette sale of the Lyon businessman's collection totalled €6,163,668, exceeding the sale's high estimate, with 21 lots selling for more than €100,000 including four above €300,000. Highlights included:
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A complete set of Theodor de Bry's Voyages in Latin including both the Grands Voyages (America) and the Petits Voyages (Africa and Asia) will go under the hammer at Stockholms Auktionsverk next month.
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Freeman’s | Hindman’s major Abraham Lincoln auction yesterday which featured early manuscripts and rare items connected to his assassination made a total of $7,899,994. 
Highlights from Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on May 29 include: * Haasis & Lubrecht's The American Union Railroad Map Of The United States, British Possessions, West Indies, Mexico, And Central America, large wax-engraved map of the…
Fairs
Dealers at this year's Firsts London reported a genuine buzz as more than 4,000 people came through the doors at the Saatchi Gallery including many visitors from the US and sales of over £4.7 million were reported. 
Auctions
Artifacts from America's outlaw history go under the hammer at RR Auction this week.The Old West, Outlaws, Lawmen, and Gangsters sale closing on May 22 features a handwritten letter from Clyde Barrow to his brother, scrawled on the back of a photograph of one of the gang's Gulf Coast hideouts…