A new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the evolution of technology and its impact on labor…
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Quite a busy week coming up!At ALDE on Tuesday, June 13, 391 lots of Éditions originales du XIXe siècle - Une bibliothèque littéraire du XXe siècle et à divers amateurs. An impressive copy of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) is expected to sell for €30,000–40,000.
The National Comedy Center will become the home of Joan Rivers’ career archive including a file cabinet containing more than 65,000 original jokes spanning from the start of her career in the 1950s to 2014 when she died.
A needlework sampler embroidered by a girl who married a direct descendant of William Bradford (1590-1657), signatory to the Mayflower Compact, comes to auction at the British auction house Sworders this month.
Three albums bring together 761 postcards featuring places in Staffordshire including Stafford, Lichfield, Whittington, and Chase Terrace, go under the hammer on day one of Richard Winterton Auctioneers’ Antiques & Home Sale on June 12. As a single lot, the three albums are estimated at £2…
Highlights from James Cummins Bookseller's latest catalogue There's No Place Like Home including:
* Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware
Autographed items by Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Pancho Villa, Mahatma Gandhi, and an archive of letters from Ezra Pound feature in the June 15 Fine Books & Manuscripts sale at Swann Galleries which will feature many rare autographs and books, with a special selection dedicated to…
Historians at Hever Castle believe that Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, and Thomas Cromwell all owned a copy of the same prayer book.
Leading Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on June 22 in New York, is a previously unknown, extensive medical manuscript by John Morgan, the father of American medicine and the founder of America’s first medical college in 1765.
A series of letters from J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan discussing his feelings about hobbits and the writing of The Lord of the Rings are coming to auction at Bonhams later this month.
Swann Galleries’ third iteration of Focus on Women, an auction dedicated to the contributions of women to art, life, and society, brought $361,090, with literature and archives - especially those of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - among the leading items of the sale.
