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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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Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School (FMDG) has donated its entire Braille music catalog, the second-largest collection of Braille music in the country, to The New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Through this donation, the Heiskell Library will make…
A complete copy of Edward S Curtis’s seminal The North American Indian, arguably the most complete ethnographic record of the native peoples of North America ever assembled, topped the two days of Fine Books & Manuscript auctions at Hindman.
A Washington Cathedral program book from March 31, 1968, inscribed and signed by the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the final days of his life has sold at Hakes for $28,556.Dr King delivered his final Sunday sermon at that service and according to Hake’s research no other MLK autograph…
Second Story Books, the oldest used and rare bookstore in the Washington DC metro area, announces a unique way to build your library or collection: Searching the collection of others for unique works on particular subjects.The new platform, available through their website, presents…
At Bonhams New York on Tuesday, November 21, 223 lots of Fine Books and Manuscripts, which includes the Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher Collection of Whitmaniana as lots 125–152. A November 23, 1783 letter from from Thomas Mifflin as president of the United States Congress to Jonathan Trumbull as…
Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books sale on December 7 is set to include a wide assortment of maps and graphics chronicling the advancement of knowledge of the world from the 16th through the 20th century. Featured themes will be maps of the American…
A long-lost manuscript by renowned 20th century German author Georg Hermann has been published over 80 years after it was written, thanks to the efforts of a University of London researcher.
This year's annual Sandars Lectures series running later this month will be given by Dr David Pearson on the subject of Cambridge Bookbinding 1450-1775.The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is one of the most prestigious honorary posts to which book historians, librarians and researchers can be…
A rare eyewitness account of the trial of two Suffolk women accused of witchcraft in the 17th century comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions on November 29. The case, presided over by the famous judge Sir Matthew Hale in March 1664, was one later used as the legal precedent for the Salem Witch…
Opening November 18 and on view through April 14, 2024, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is presenting Kid in a Candy Store: The Picture Book Art of Seymour Chwast, a look at the career of graphic designer Seymour Chwast spanning nearly seven decades.
