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A body of photo-realistic paintings by Gail Wegodsky focused on libraries portrayed as homes of…
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Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's latest catologue Almanacks: Twelve Books for the New Year:* Le double Liègeois, almanach journalier pour 1842, supputé par M. Math. Laensberg, suivi de ses véritables prophéties. Liège and Paris, Stahl, [1841].
At Sotheby's New York on Monday, January 29, 16 lots of Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana. Sharing the top estimate of $300,000–500,000 are a contemporary manuscript map of General Edward Braddock's route to Fort Duquesne (1755) and Captain James Duncan's manuscript journal of the Siege of…
Following the £1m sale in September 2023 of the first portion of treasured texts collected by William and Christopher Foyle, Dominic Winter Auctioneers will present the second portion of the Foyle Library for sale by public auction on January 31.
An exhibition exploring extraordinary materials collected by Walter and Linda Evans now in the Beinecke’s care, Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington: The Collections of Walter O. Evans at Beinecke Library celebrates Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and Ollie Harrington, key figures of Black history, art…
Swann Galleries' auction brings works from the fringe, the avant garde and the indie for a look at the material culture of punk, rock, psych, hip hop, and jazz. An interdisciplinary sale, this auction will include posters, records, photographs, fine art, autographs, books and ephemera.…
Winston Churchill’s desk from his Hyde Park Gate home in London has been sold at The Winter Show 2024, taking place at The Armoury New York for $450,000.The desk was part of his private office, used in his post-war political career and while writing his Second World War memoirs. This office was…
This is a guest post by TLS editor Michael Caines, on an accidental collection and not knowing what you're really up to.How many of them are there? Maybe only two dozen books. Or thereabouts. And where are they? Well, tellingly, they’re scattered across different shelves because, at first, I didn’t…
The original draft script used by Hollywood actor Harrison Ford when he was in the UK in 1976 to play Han Solo in the first Star Wars film, is set to go under the hammer.
The cancelled working manuscript of the song Ye Jacobites by Name was written by Robert Burns in 1791 in the inflammatory early period of the French Revolution - if published, the revolutionary themes of the work might have placed him under suspicion with the authorities.Co-inciding with…
The most complete visual record of Ireland, in map and print form, ever assembled by an expert private collector has been acquired the National Library of Ireland (NLI).The Bonar Law Collection comprises close to 10,000 maps and approximately 9,000 prints, which include caricature prints and ballad…
