Fine Books News: Recent
Our monthly look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.
A rare group of early aviation glass lantern slides documenting the pioneering long distance…
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The Morgan Library & Museum has announced the appointment of Dr. Joshua O’Driscoll as Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.O’Driscoll joined the Morgan as Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in 2015 and was promoted to…
Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Literature of Legerdemain auction featuring the collection of magic bibliographer Stephen Forrester include:* Kellar in His Latest Mystery. Self DecapitationStone lithograph shows Kellar (Heinrich Keller, 1849 - 1922) seated in a chair, his disembodied…
A handwritten letter written by Queen Elizabeth II as a child is estimated to sell for £4,000 when it appears at Hansons tomorrow.The one-page note is addressed to the head housemaid at Royal Lodge in Windsor Beatrice Stillman, and includes doodles of dogs, horses and young children. Written while…
The J. Paul Getty Museum’s The Egyptian Book of the Dead exhibition will return next month to showcase the Getty collection of ancient Egyptian manuscripts inscribed with spells and illustrated scenes from the Book of the Dead which were intended to guide souls through the afterlife.
Senate House Library will be the official Charity Partner for Firsts London 2026.Senate House Library will be curating a stand at Firsts that showcases its various collections charting social and political transformation. This year's theme of Firsts London which runs May 14-17 at the Saatchi…
The 1796 edition of Amelia Simmons' American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables... is regarded as the first cookery book published in the US by an American author, and the illustrated 1831 edition comes to the Rare Books & Manuscripts auction at PBA Galleries…
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) will return to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from April 30 through May 3, 2026.More than 170 exhibitors from around the world, including new participants Black Swan Books, Marshall Kibbey Rare Books, Midway Rare Books, Reagan’…
Shakespeare specialist Professor Emma Smith from the University of Oxford will give the 2026 Stevenson Lecture tomorrow at Senate House in London on the subject Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books.
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
An 1837 English translation of Santa Anna's second-in-command's account of his conduct in the Texas Revolution will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' Februarty 26 Historical Manuscripts & Texana sale.
