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Freeman’s November 16 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.
Two landscapes by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) lead Bonhams' Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art on November 14 at New Bond Street, London. Untitled (West Bengal Landscape) and Untitled (Dark landscape with cliffs and tree), are both individually estimated…
The British Library is suffering an ongoing cyber attack at its London and Yorkshire locations with its website down at the time of writing and only able to offer a restricted service.It comes as the Toronto Public Library is also reporting a cyber security incident.
There's something special about owning an original handwritten manuscript, but if a John Steinbeck fragment or Charlotte Brontë's 'Little Book' are out of reach then Handwritten: Remarkable People on the Page is the next best thing.
A scarce astronomy treatise, written by a Welshman before Galileo was born, has been sold to a private international buyer after an intense bidding war.The first edition of The Castle of Knowledge by Robert Recorde (first edition, London: Reginalde Wolfe, 1556) was discovered among a box of…
Organisers of a project to restore the house where the Brontë sisters were born are looking for public support to help reach their goals via its Crowdfunder page.
Relics from the collection of sleight-of-hand magician, actor, and author, Ricky Jay went for nearly $518,000 at Potter & Potter's Ricky Jay Collection Part II Sale.
A new study using a large-scale data set of U.S. library book circulations evaluated the impact of book bans on demand for banned books. It found that circulations of books rose after being banned, banning a book in one state leads to increases in circulation of that book in states that did not ban…
After seven years and thanks to a team of international specialists, the Florentine Codex, the most important manuscript surviving from early colonial Mexico and rich in pre-colonial Indigenous knowledge, is now available to explore online with new translations and features.
Potter & Potter's auction Lewis Carroll and Alice: The Collection of Stephen and Nancy Farber focuses on a collection put together over four decades of books, illustrations, sketches, posters, posters, and art related to Lewis Carroll's books and characters.
