Freeman's - Philadelphia

Thursday, September 23rd, 2021

Auctions

Books and Manuscripts

10am

Exhibition open by appt.

Freeman's
1600 W. Girard Avenue

Philadelphia, PA

39.971745, -75.1628738

Freeman's - Philadelphia

https://www.freemansauction.com/auction/1714-books-and-manuscripts/?au=5573

Photographs

Marilyn Monroe’s signed photograph

Marilyn Monroe’s Signed Passport Photograph Sold for $21,655

Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

Book People

Dunlewey Church, Co Donegal

Five-Year Brian Friel Centenary Begins With Five Plays Over Five Weeks

Ernest Hemingway Lookalike Winner Chosen in Key West

Bright Young Collectors: Joshua Shelley

Exhibitions

Inside the new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum

Miriam Margolyes Launches New 'Showtime!' Exhibition at Charles Dickens Museum

Handwritten Letters by Elizabeth II to Feature in New Exhibition on the Queen's Fashion

Poet Richard Aldington Celebrated in New Exhibition

Sponsored

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Evergreen Review at PBA Galleries

Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Visual Art

A Persuasion engraving, Louisa falling on the Cobb, Joan Hassall, wood engraving, 1961

Jane Austen's Illustrators Celebrated in New Anniversary Exhibition

Eric Carle's Food Drawings on Display

New Art Installation Celebrates Magna Carta Anniversary

Auctions

1942 war bonds poster issued by Kroger, featuring two small children in gas masks

First Superman, American Atlas, Washington Letter: Auction Preview

Washington Irving’s Original Handwritten Manuscript of 'Legend of the House of Omeya' to Auction

Cecil B. DeMille's Ten Commandment Tablets Sold for $325,000

Book Arts

Reconstructed fragment of a bronze military diploma from Sardinia, issued by the emperor Trajan to a sailor on a warship. 113/14 CE

New AI Tool Could Help Reconstruct Missing Ancient Inscriptions

Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'

Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title

Rare Books

Willa Cather's Youth and the Bright Medusa

Willa Cather, William Wordsworth, and Architectural Archive: The Week in Rare Books

Melbourne Rare Book Fair: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Library of Longleat House Manuscripts at Frieze Masters 2025

Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries

Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors