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Ragtime: Cakewalk in Pianoland following ragtime's path from the musical traditions of enslaved…
Frank Earle Schoonover’s Where is the Key, Sola? painted for the first book edition of A Princess…
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At Bonhams New York on Tuesday, November 21, 223 lots of Fine Books and Manuscripts, which includes the Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher Collection of Whitmaniana as lots 125–152. A November 23, 1783 letter from from Thomas Mifflin as president of the United States Congress to Jonathan Trumbull as…
Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books sale on December 7 is set to include a wide assortment of maps and graphics chronicling the advancement of knowledge of the world from the 16th through the 20th century. Featured themes will be maps of the American…
A long-lost manuscript by renowned 20th century German author Georg Hermann has been published over 80 years after it was written, thanks to the efforts of a University of London researcher.
This year's annual Sandars Lectures series running later this month will be given by Dr David Pearson on the subject of Cambridge Bookbinding 1450-1775.The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is one of the most prestigious honorary posts to which book historians, librarians and researchers can be…
A rare eyewitness account of the trial of two Suffolk women accused of witchcraft in the 17th century comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions on November 29. The case, presided over by the famous judge Sir Matthew Hale in March 1664, was one later used as the legal precedent for the Salem Witch…
Opening November 18 and on view through April 14, 2024, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is presenting Kid in a Candy Store: The Picture Book Art of Seymour Chwast, a look at the career of graphic designer Seymour Chwast spanning nearly seven decades.
One of the most important and extensive collections of Alan Turing's autograph material has been sold at Bonhams for £381,400. Among the papers of Turing and his collaborator Donald Bayley (1921-2020) are more than 40 pages of working notes and mathematics relating to the Delilah…
Developmental sketches by Antoine Saint-Exupéry for The Little Prince, a handwritten inventory by Charles Dickens of his library, and E.H.
The lyrics to Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door handwritten by Bob Dylan ca. 2009 on a leaf of The Carlyle hotel stationery are going under the hammer at University Archives with an estimate of $35,000 - $45,000.
A collection of letters signed by celebrated 18th century Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth soared past its high estimate of £1,200 at Halls Fine Art’s book, stamps and coins auction in Shrewsbury.
