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Items related to the Gettysburg Address and Abraham Lincoln's final Annual Message to Congress will…
A rare group of surviving documents connected to the first modern Olympic Games are being offered…
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Christmas celebrations are already underway at the Charles Dickens Museum in London which is the home in which Dickens himself and his family celebrated yuletide.Over the festive period an extension of the current Showtime! exhibition will be on view in Dickens’s study, exploring Dickens’s…
A scarce copy of Beatrix Potter’s The Fairy Caravan leads Tennants’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on December 11.
Bonhams' upcoming Spencer Tracy: Collection of a Screen Icon sale will feature literary items from the personal collection of Hollywood actor Spencer Tracy.
Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi's 1602 De animalibus insectis libri septem is widely regarded as the first printed book focussed entirely on insects and a cornerstone of modern entomology.Aldrovandi (1522-1605) was the chair of natural history at the University of Bologna, and founded a…
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.
Vincent Van Gogh’s Piles de romans parisiens et roses dans une verre (Romans parisiens) has been sold at Sotheby's for $62.7m which is the second highest price for a still life by the artist.It appeared at the auction of The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection and had an estimate in the…
The highest-ever-graded copy of Superman No. 1 from 1939 which was found by a Northern California family in the attic of their late mother's home now holds the record as the world's most expensive comic book.It sold for $9.12m at Heritage Auction's Comic Books auction."What a momentous day," said…
A new exhibition opening next month at The Grolier Club will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen.
Opening November 28 at The New York Historical is a new exhibition exploring themes of memory, identity, and community.Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The New York Historical Collections examines the immigrant experience in New York City through March 29, 2026.
A number of civil war maps go under the hammer at Swann Galleries tomorrow in its Printed & Manuscript Americana sale.Leading the lots is a Union-drawn manuscript map of the Virginia countryside southwest of Alexandria very early in the war, around September 1861, shortly after the July 1861…
