Rare Books, Book Collection, Manuscripts and Old Maps

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine: Rare Book of the Week

Lane's Telescopic View of the Great Exhibition, 1851

History of Unconventional Publishing Charted in New Exhibition

Lost Ian Fleming Short Story Published as Bond Memorabilia Comes to Auction

A large red folio originally containing all official documents of Napoleon’s divorce to Joséphine Estimate: €50,000 - €80,000

Napoleon’s Marriage Certificate, Divorce Folio, and Codicil to Auction

A My Fair Lady Theatre Royal, Drury Lane programme, and souvenir book, 1958; a copy of Cecil Beaton's Fair Lady, C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., London, 1964; and a Beaton designed Christmas card

Cecil Beaton Designs for Anna Karenina and Oscar Wilde Plays to Auction

From the Pages of Fine Books & Collections

Lewis Carroll: A Rare and Wondrous Rabbit Hole

In an act of remarkable generosity, the bibliophile and

How Poisonous Books Are Being Detected

In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated...

Collector Nicholas Royle Retraces the Journeys of His Books

Book collector Nicholas Royle—whose trilogy on the subject will be complete when...

Fine Books News

Bartholomaeus’s De proprietatibus rerum (On the Properties of Things)

15th Century Bartholomaeus Anglicus Incunable with Hares Drawings and Doodles to Auction

Bartholomaeus’s De proprietatibus rerum printed in Cologne in 1481 by Johanem koelhoff de lubeck leads Bellmans' Printed Books &…

Paris Rare Book Fair Opens

The Salon du Livre Rare & des Arts Graphiques opens today in Paris and runs through June 15.

Document signed by Reich President Karl Dönitz authorizing the start of surrender negotiations with Allied forces

German Surrender Negotiation Document Signed by Karl Dönitz Sold for $166,333

Roald Dahl's Sketches for 'Boy' at Lyon & Turnbull

Original portrait photograph of Lincoln seated with a book and his son Tad, taken February 9, 1864

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

A group of author-inscribed books from the personal home collection of David Lynch

Hundreds of Books from David Lynch's Private Library to Auction

William Blake Items Top Maurice Sendak Sale

World’s Oldest Example of Printed Text Unveiled at State Library Victoria

Americana: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Getty's New LGBTQ+ Exhibition Features Rare Books, Artists’ Books, and Archival Materials

Previouly Unseen Photograph of Sale of Charles Dickens's Belongings on Display

Greta Garbo Letters: Rare Book of the Week

Shelley's Baby Rattle, Homer's Iliad, and Jane Austen Juvenilia in New Treasured Exhibition

Only Known Photographs of Ada Lovelace to Auction: Estimate £120,000

Louisiana Purchase Portfolio on Display and to Auction

13th Century Trilingual Dictionary, The Red Book of Bath, and The Form of Living Acquired by British Library

Special Collections

Jordan Cohn Sports Library

3625 Carrick Ct.

Snellville, GA 30039

(404) 617-9315

Arguably, the largest collection of sports publications--books/magazines/programs/ (more)

Auction House

Fairhill Auction

(443) 222-8240

International auctioneers based in Maryland proudly serving collectors of vintage (more)

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Bearly Read Books

320 Boston Post Road (RT20)

Sudbury, MA 01776

(978) 443-3034

Auction House

Dominic Winter Auctioneers Ltd

Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney

Cirencester, United Kingdom GL7 5UQ

United Kingdom

+44 1285 860006

Established in 1988 Dominic Winter's business has gained an international (more)

Americana

Courtius, Klyn Loretten in Noord-America/Little Loretto, Kentucky, engraving, circa 1812

Americana: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Thomas Jefferson’s Cicero and J. D. Salinger Letter Lead University Archives Auction

Handwritten Manuscripts Related to Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James and Buffalo Bill to Auction

Photographs

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

Previouly Unseen Photograph of Sale of Charles Dickens's Belongings on Display

Only Known Photographs of Ada Lovelace to Auction: Estimate £120,000

Rare Books

Hyakumantō Darani with wooden pagoda, storage box and facsimile text alongside a colour woodblock print of Horyuji Temple in Nara, Japan, where this particular darani was stored. Photo: Eugene Hyland.

World’s Oldest Example of Printed Text Unveiled at State Library Victoria

Greta Garbo Letters: Rare Book of the Week

Shelley's Baby Rattle, Homer's Iliad, and Jane Austen Juvenilia in New 'Treasured' Exhibition

Book People

Paris Rare Book Fair Opens

Collector Nicholas Royle Retraces the Journeys of His Books

Minnesota Center for Book Arts Announces 2025 McKnight Book Fellows

Exhibitions

Front Line of Freedom San Francisco: Queer as a Three Dollar Bill, offset print, ca. 1981, by Ken Wood

Getty's New LGBTQ+ Exhibition Features Rare Books, Artists’ Books, and Archival Materials

The Art of Dress in Medieval Manuscripts

John Ashbery Drawings, Tarot, and 3,000 Years of Storytelling at the Morgan in 2026

Book Arts

LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Bach Manuscript Inspires Bodleian Libraries Concert

New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Maps

A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi

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

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Maps of 18th Century Gardens: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Visual Art

Roald Dahl's Sketches for 'Boy' at Lyon & Turnbull

Spider-Man Artwork Smashes Auction Record for Greg and Tim Hildebrandt

Cecil Beaton Designs for 'Anna Karenina' and Oscar Wilde Plays to Auction

Auctions

15th Century Bartholomaeus Anglicus Incunable with Hares Drawings and Doodles to Auction

German Surrender Negotiation Document Signed by Karl Dönitz Sold for $166,333

Hundreds of Books from David Lynch's Private Library to Auction

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine: Rare Book of the Week

History of Unconventional Publishing Charted in New Exhibition

Lost Ian Fleming Short Story Published as Bond Memorabilia Comes to Auction

Napoleon’s Marriage Certificate, Divorce Folio, and Codicil to Auction

Cecil Beaton Designs for Anna Karenina and Oscar Wilde Plays to Auction

Lewis Carroll: A Rare and Wondrous Rabbit Hole

How Poisonous Books Are Being Detected

Collector Nicholas Royle Retraces the Journeys of His Books

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