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Rare Books

Boston Public Library special collections

Boston Public Library Completes $15.7-Million Renovation of Special Collections

Association Copies in the Spotlight at Firsts London

Following the West Coast Book & Ephemera Trail

Auctions

Poe Letter 1846

For Sale: Poe Letter Referencing a Literary Feud

Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week

World-Class Selection of Books at Potter & Potter’s October Auction

Maps

Journal of Magellan's Voyage

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Cartographer Olaus Magnus' Map of Sea Monsters

Americana

New Englands First Fruits (1643)

$277,200 Sale of Rare Colonial First Edition at Freeman's

The Rare Autograph at the Heart of a Classic Bibliomystery

For Sale: Charles Lindbergh’s Book Contract

Visual Art

Evangeline Gallagher illustration for the Folio Society

Evangeline Gallagher Wins the 2022 Folio Book Illustration Award

Library of Congress Acquires Original Artwork by Vera B. Williams

Dalziel Wood Engravings on View at the British Museum

Exhibitions

Four Tulips, about 1635-1645, drawing by Jacob Marrel

Exhibition of 17th-Century Dutch Drawings Opens in October

Austen Letters Inspire Two New Exhibitions

Princeton University Library Showcases Diverse Forms of Activism

Book Arts

Jerome Mentorship Art

Three Book Artists Selected for Jerome Mentorship Program

Minsky’s Special Edition in Patented Book Box Heads to Paris

Cecilia Levy’s Paper Art

Photographs

Eugene Atget photographs

The Getty Acquires Eugène Atget Photographs

The Morgan Digitizes Tabarant Collection of Manet Photographs

Video Fridays: PhotoBook Club

Book People

Sören Schuhmacher

Bright Young Booksellers: Sören Schuhmacher

2022 Alice Award for Illustrated Books Winner Announced

Books About Books: 5 Picks for Fall 2022

Sponsored

Handwritten Lincoln Book to Resurface This Fall

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

For Those Who Want Choices