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The Library of Congress has acquired the collection of manuscripts, instruments, costumes, video…
Isaac Newton's manuscript on alchemy A Key to Snyders will be offered at Bonhams’ …
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Written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1849, an autograph manuscript version of his For Annie goes under the hammer at Sotheby's on June 26 with an estimate of $400,000 - $600,000.
Rare salt prints from the dawn of photography made by some of the earliest photographic practitioners are among the Bodleian deposit consisting of more than 1,000 items from the 19th and early 20th centuries made by The Wilson Centre for Photography in London.The outstanding collection of…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Richard Erdmann, proprietor of Mare Booksellers in New Hampshire:How did you get started in rare books?
The Jane Austen Museum in Chawton, England, is looking for help in transcribing the unpublished manuscript biography of Francis Austen, Jane's older brother, which it has put on public display for the first time.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Newberry a grant of $336,288 to digitize more than 2,000 rare books and manuscripts documenting languages spoken or formerly spoken by the Indigenous peoples of North and Central America.
'The Art of the Book' is the theme for the 2024 edition of Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair which returns May 16 - 19 over three floors of the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.
Highlights from Swann Galleries' May 9 Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America auction include: * * Aldo Cosomati, For The Wimbledon Tournament June 25th, 1923. Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000.* Leopoldo Metlicovitz, E. & A. – Mele –…
At Heritage Auctions on Tuesday, April 23, 505 lots of Illustration Art, including James Ford Clymer's original art for the Saturday Evening Post cover of the October 31, 1953 issue ($150,000–250,000); Amos Sewell's "Visiting Hours," for the cover of the April 29, 1961 issue of the same magazine is…
The Crosby-Schoyen Codex leads Christie's' Manuscript Masterpieces from The Schøyen Collection in June with an estimated sale value of $2.6m - $3.8m.
The Drew University Archives and Special Collections has unveiled a new collection of previously unpublished works about Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.
