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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, August 27, 2010

A rare first English edition of Gerard Mercator´s Atlas, 1636, sold for $35,380.

Lewis & Clark book leads Leslie Hindman sale
ArtfixDaily Staff - August 26th, 2010 23:32

Fresh-to-the-market material helped boost hammer prices well above estimates at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' August 12 sale in Chicago. A Lewis & Clark book nearly quadrupled its high estimate. The Fine Books & Manuscripts sale featured several highly-contested lots culled from private collections. Prices proved "an impressive upswing in the market for cartographic works and books with ornithological or botanical plates," remarked director Mary Williams. Of note, two ...

"Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Rock" is from a glass plate negative discovered at a garage sale by Rick Norsigian. He believes it is the work of Ansel Adams.

Ansel Adams trust sues Rick Norsigian

The Fresno, Calif., man who says he bought a stack of glass-plate negatives created by Ansel Adams at a garage sale for $45 is being sued by the famed nature photographer's trust. ...

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