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London Transport Museum in Covent Garden has opened its new Global Poster Gallery, its first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of poster art and design.The museum cares for one of the world’s largest collections of 20th century graphic art and design, with around 1,000 original poster…
A duo of remarkable historical artifacts, including an 1833 copy of the Declaration of Independence and an autograph letter signed by Ernest Hemingway on grizzly bear hunting, are set to go under the hammer at the Nate D. Sanders Auctions on October 26.
Occult and esoteric works offer a broad church of material for collectors, writes Suzanna Beaupré from Peter Harrington. Its scope ranging from legal accounts of early modern witch trials through to 20th-century literature inspired by those on the other side, travelling through divination, alchemy…
Hindman will hold its fall Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana sale on November 10. Featuring more than 400 lots, the sale includes early fencing books, an extensive run of works by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a selection of livres d’artistes in very fine 20th-century bindings…
An estimated 1,000 works of art, rare books, and precious objects from the personal collection
of the descendant of the founder of Hermès are to offered in four auctions by Sotheby's Paris, December 13-15.
The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (BIABF) returns to the Hynes Convention Center in Downtown Boston, October 27-29, 2023. Celebrating its 45th year, this three-day event features fine and rare printed materials from around the globe, including illuminated manuscripts, modern first…
One of Dublin’s biggest celebations, the Bram Stoker Festival is back with more than 50,000 people expected to enjoy activities across the city from October 27 to October 30.Highlights include:
Anchored around some of its most acclaimed medieval manuscripts, The Morgan Library & Museum will present Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality, an exhibition examing the economic revolution in medieval Europe and charting the expanding role and perception of money during that period.
Bonhams New York holds a sale titled John Steinbeck: The Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection, featuring 107 lots of rare Steinbeckiana collected by the author's sister Mary and her son-in-law David Heyler. Rating the top estimate at $250,000–350,000 is a large lot of nearly 400 pieces of…
Hindman will offer 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 in its Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection sale, the first in a pair of back-to-back Books…
