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Highlights from the exhibitors at the 2026 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair which runs…
Rare books from the personal library of pioneering British scholar of Armenian and Iranian studies…
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Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Juli McLoone, a curator in the special collections library at the University of Michigan.What is your role at your institution?
In 1993 The New Yorker ran one of its most famous cartoons, a the black-and-white single-panel "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" by Peter Steiner. Featuring two chatting dogs sitting in front of a desktop computer, it became the most reproduced cartoon in the history of the magazine.
Swann Galleries' October 26 Fine Books & Autographs auction features a selection of signed first editions, 19th and 20th century classics, as well as art, press and illustrated books.
The History of Western Music: Manuscripts from the Schøyen Collection at Christie’s is an online-only sale which showcases the history of music with more than 150 lots from medieval notation to musical manuscripts, scores, drafts and composers’ letters spanning 1,200 years.
The Morgan Library & Museum's new exhibition Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals highlights the collection of 15th to 17th century European printed herbals of Dr. Peter Goop, one of the most significant private collections of herbals in the world.
Dr Jörn Günther Rare Books returns to Frieze Masters in London (October 11-15 ) with three extraordinary manuscripts, the Great Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, a personal prayerbook created by the prolific Flemish illuminator Simon Bening, and a heavily illuminated medical handbook.
In the month so closely linked to America’s first professional author, Washington Irving, The Raab Collection has announced that it is selling two rare autograph manuscripts from Irving’s defining biography of George Washington, published in five volumes between 1855 and 1859. Long held in a…
Leading RR Auction's 900-lot October Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is a complete set of autographs from all 40 signers of the American Constitution, including prominent founding fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton.
The set was bought by a lifelong Beatles fan from Staffordshire, who said the purchase fulfilled a "lifetime’s ambition".
At Chiswick Auctions on Monday, October 9, 490 lots of Autographs & Memorabilia, including a signed 1964 Beatles promo photograph (£5,000–7,000), a 1933 Einstein letter to the provost of Oriel College, Oxford (£4,000–6,000), and a 1939 Gandhi postcard at the same estimate range.
