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Porto's first Antiquarian Book Fair (1º Salão do Livro Antigo no Porto) will take place May 1-3 in…
An early 9th century manuscript containing a text of Caedmon’s Hymn has been discovered in Rome by…
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Chiswick Auctions’ Books and Works on Paper sale on August 24 included a private collection of Boxiana for £80,000.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Oscar Salguero, of NYC, who recently won the grand prize in the 2023 David Ruggles Book Collecting Contest.Where are you from / where do you live?I am originally from Lima, Peru. I grew up there until I was 18 years old and have lived in the…
Christie's will present an autograph manuscript by Albert Einstein in the 10th Shanghai Auction Anniversary: 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale on September 23 at the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai.
Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women, edited by Nicole C. Dittmer, continues the British Library's programme of bringing forgotten classic works back into publication.
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.
