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Bonhams has announced a major sale dedicated to Oscar Wilde's life and works which will take place…
The Morgan Library & Museum's exhibition lineup for 2026 includes a display of late medieval…
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An etching by Rembrandt which is supposed to depict Faust in his study goes under the hammer next week at Kiefer.
An official menu from the state banquet held in Beijing on October 19, 1956, commemorating the first state visit of Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy of Pakistan to China, has been auctioned for $275,000 at Boston-based RR Auction.
Our Compelling Collections series continues today with Joy Bivins, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of The New York Public Library in New York City. What is the mission of your library?
An apparently unpublished account of a journey made by two Englishmen across colonial North America has sold for £30,000 at Chiswick Auctions in London. Joseph Cator (1733-1818) and Joseph Sparkes had spent four months travelling by horse and carriage from ‘Charles Town’ to Boston accompanied by…
Manuscript material and inscribed copies from a wide range of 20th century writers at auction with Sotheby's includes signed Jack Kerouac letters, inscribed copies of his novels, and the original typescript scroll manuscript of The Dharma Bums.
I was in York for this year's YABS, the York Antiquarian Book Seminar. Now in its ninth year, it is modelled on the highly successful Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (generally known as CABS, and now based in Minnesota), which has been running for over 40 years.
Stockholms Auktionsverk's upcoming auction features more than 300 items dating back to the 15th century including maps, travelogues, and numerous titles focusing on the wonders of cooking from the collection of Inga-Lill Skoog.A total of 86 items from her library on the theme of food and husbandry…
Charles William Pressler and A.B. Langermann’s 1879 Map of the State of Texas, one of the most significant and rarest maps of Texas ever printed, is regarded as the first truly accurate map of Texas.This the sole copy in a private collection - there are only three known copies - sold for $705,…
At ALDE on Monday, December 4, 421 lots from the Bibliothèque Gastronomique Daniel Morcette, including a 1497 Strasbourg edition of the Ortus Sanitatis (€15,0
I bade farewell to the Captain today, writes slang lexicographer and author Jonathon Green. Captain Francis Grose, militia officer, antiquarian and slang collector. We have been sharing a home for some years, but it had become time to let him move on. Others requested his presence. I am ever-older…
