Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will be holding a sale of the Library of a Gentleman on 27th February 2014. The sale will include a fine selection of books on natural history as well as literature, travel and Sussex topography. Of note is Eleazar Albin is A Natural History of English Insects, 1749. [Read More]
Daily Archives: February 19, 2014
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As the Sochi Winter Olympic Games focuses world attention on the future of Russia, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions offer the opportunity to explore the country’s vivid history with a 19th century French book on Russian customs in their Thursday 6th March 2014 sale of Printed Books and Manuscripts. Les Peuples de la [Read More]
One of the most important early English longcase clocks to come on to the market in the last ten years will be sold at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Fine Clocks, Barometers & Scientific Instruments on Tuesday 11th March. Bought by the existing owners great grandfather from Evesham, Worcestershire in around [Read More]
Bonhams will offer a recently rediscovered Francois Linke Louis XV/XVI style gilt bronze and marquetry bibliotheque (est. $400,000-600,000) in its Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts auction, March 17 in San Francisco. Francois Linke is the most sought after French ebenistesof the second half of the 19th century. This unique cabinet, never [Read More]
An exquisite gold necklace and bracelet, plus Germantown and chief’s blankets will be offered. (MESA, Ariz.) – Outstanding basket and beadwork collections, an exquisite 14kt gold and turquoise necklace, an exceptional fine weave Germantown blanket, a Hubbel-style Navajo chief’s blanket and a Hopi 14kt gold overlay bracelet with figures will all be [Read More]
One of the most renowned of legendary Lotus head Colin Chapman’s landmark Formula 1 car designs, the Lotus 49 as introduced in 1967 not only launched the racing world’s most successful Grand Prix power unit – the Cosworth-Ford DFV V8 – into racing history, it also became one of the longest-lived of [Read More]
The world’s largest known collection of Art Deco bookends is to be sold at Bonhams in London. The vast collection of 180 pairs will be offered over two sales, the first being the 2nd April Decorative Arts sale at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Classic Art Deco designs in bronze, glass, iron and marble are [Read More]