Andrew Barnes / Military Melbourne / Mother Russia/

andrew@militarymelbourne.com

Specialising in military, aviation, naval & shipping and all aspects of Russian & Soviet art, history & literature

Exhibitions

Mort Drucker, The Oddfather (parody of The Godfather), illustration for MAD #155 (EC, 1972). Ink on board . Private Collection

Original MAD Magazine Illustrations Featured in New Norman Rockwell Museum Exhibition

Raymond Briggs' Writing and Drawing Desk Goes on Display for First Time

Exhibition of Book-like Objects Opens at at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Auctions

The Abraham Lincoln endorsement

Abraham Lincoln Endorsement and Ronald Reagan's Books to Auction

Newton Manuscript, Tennis Posters, Early Plato: Auction Preview

Don Quixote Editions Lead Swann Galleries Spring Fine Books Offering

Visual Art

Hundreds of Copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to Feature in Anniversary Library Artwork

Original Harry Potter Cover Illustration to Auction with $600,000 Estimate

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Tennis Posters

Maps

Gerrit de Veer, VVaerachtighe Beschryvinghe Uan drie seylagien (Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz, 1598). Engraving, 7.8 x 19.5 in (19.6 x 49.5 cm).

Early Maps, Photographs and Artists’ Books Chart 500 years of the Arctic

Early Baseball Sheet Music, Arrowsmith’s Maps, JFK Presentation Copy: Auction Preview

Rare New Amsterdam Map Helps Reveal Life in New York Before New York

Book People

Steven Raab on the Great Autograph Dealers

Steven Raab on Founding a Historical Documents Business 35 Years Ago

Applications Now Open for York Antiquarian Book Seminar 2024

Book Arts

Underdog - The Other Other Bronte starring (left to right) Rhiannon Clements as Anne, Gemma Whelan as Charlotte, Adele James as Emily

World Premiere of New Bröntes Play Opens at National Theatre

The Creative Process of Italy's Most Prolific Small Publisher, Alberto Casiraghy

A New Book Examines 100 Years of the Historic Queen Mary's Dolls' House Library

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

Franklin Printing Company shop sign, circa 1920

Benjamin Franklin Book-Related Items to Auction

President Grover Cleveland's Signed Document Approving Utah Statehood Sold for $27,188

Bible Jackie Kennedy Read From at JFK’s Funeral to Auction

Photographs

Queen Elizabeth II letter

Wartime Letter Written by Queen Elizabeth II With Signed Photogaph to Auction

Wilson Centre for Photography Deposits Collection of Early Photographs at the Bodleian Libraries

Street Photographer Vivian Maier's Vintage Prints, Self-Portraits and Earliest Camera Work to Auction

Rare Books

The Song of Achilles in the new Folio Society edition

The Folio Society Launches ‘The Song of Achilles’

J.K. Rowling’s Handwritten Manuscript of 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' to Auction

AbeBooks' Most Expensive Sales January to March 2024