Fine Books & Collections Magazine

1 week ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

A large red folio originally containing all official documents of Napoleon’s divorce to Joséphine. Estimate: €50,000 - €80,000. One of the most comprehensive Napoleonic private collections to come to market including Napoleon Bonaparte's personal documents, bicorne hat, and campaign bed will go under the hammer at Sotheby's on June 25. The handwritten and ceremonially ornate marriage certificate of Napoleon and Joséphine which formalised their union has an estimate of €30,000-€50,000.

1 week ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

Jim Spencer with Alan Turing's On Computable Numbers Scientific papers by mathematician and leading World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing discovered in an English attic and nearly shredded will go under the hammer on June 17 at Rare Book Auctions. The papers are 'offprints', produced in very small numbers and only distributed between academics, making them very scarce and rarely appearing at market.

1 week ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

ARE YOU MY TYPE? A Typewriter Celebration will take place at the International Printing Museum in Carson, California on June 14 in honor of National Typewriter Day. The event will highlight the beauty of typewriters which are still much loved by enthusiasts although those trying one for the first time are also very welcome to visit and try typing on a variety of historic to mid-century modern typewriters.

1 week ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

The Harper Lee letter A poignant handwritten letter by Harper Lee detailing her personal observations and emotional reflections on the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in New York City will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders on May 29. Composed from her New York City home on March 26, 2002 following the tragic events, the autograph letter signed by Harper Lee offers a glimpse into the mind of the literary icon.

1 week ago | finebooksmagazine.com | Nicholas Basbanes

U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson feature in University Archives' June 4 Rare Autographs, Books & Space Memorabilia sale. Leading the auction is a six-volume set of Cicero’s Orations in the original Latin owned and signed by Thomas Jefferson. This copy of Ciceronis Orationes (Amsterdam: Ex Typographia P & I Blaeu, 1695-1699) was a key text for Jefferson who incorporated many of Cicero’s ideas into the Declaration of Independence.