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Graphic Design in the Middle Ages will reveal the ways that design influenced the making, reading, and interpretation of medieval books. Drawn primarily from the Getty Museum’s manuscripts collection, the exhibition goes on view at the Getty Center from August 29, 2023 through January 28, 2024.
A set of photographs of Sir John Franklin and his fellow senior officers of the ill-fated HMS Erebus and Terror – believed lost until now – will be offered in Sotheby’s Travel, Atlases, Maps & Photographs Sale in London on September 21.
Circus poster maquettes printed by the Erie Lithographing and Printing Co. were a premier category in Potter & Potter Auctions' Midsummer Circus, Sideshow & Oddities Sale.
Wildfires which ripped through the Hawaiian island of Maui this month have also destroyed the Vintage European Posters gallery run by Alan Dickar on Front Street in Lahaina for more than two decades.A Go Fund Me page has now been set up for anybody wishing to donate, the majority of the funds going…
Rare book dealer Peter Harrington will participate in Frieze Seoul for the first time this year, with an inaugural collection of 50 rare works that illustrate the artistic and aesthetic elements of manuscript and print culture, from its beginnings in East Asia through to the present day.The…
Sotheby’s New York will hold a series of eight auctions in October to celebrate one of the most significant and comprehensive rare book libraries to ever come to auction, Bibliotheca Brookeriana, the T. Kimball Brooker Library of Renaissance Books and Bindings.
The second annual David Ruggles Prize, the international book collecting prize established in 2020 to support and encourage young collectors of color, has been awarded to Oscar Salguero.
An original handwritten advertisement for the Apple-1 Computer, penned entirely by Steve Jobs, has sold for $175,759 at RR Auction.
The rough draft specification sheet for the groundbreaking Apple-1 bears Jobs' full signature in lowercase print, "steven jobs." It features contact information,…
New England Book Auctions sells 223 lots of Literature, Graphics, Ephemera on Tuesday, August 29. A copy of Gustav Klimt's Eine Nachlese (1946) with thirty plates by Klimt is expected to lead the way, estimated at $3,000–5,000.
Highlights of Buddenbrooks' latest Illustrated Books including Art, Fine Press, Literature, and Children’s Books catalogue include:* Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866)
