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At Doyle on Tuesday, November 7, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps including the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, in 332 lots. This sale includes Victor Gulotta's collection of colonial manuscript Americana in the first 48 lots. Expected to lead the sale is a copy of the 1508 first Latin edition…
A curated collection of 17th and 18th century manuscripts documenting life in colonial New England will be featured at Doyle Auction’s November 7 sale of rare books, autographs, and maps.
The Jill Newhouse Gallery in New York will present the first exhibition in the United States dedicated to the watercolors of French artist and writer George Sand, November 8 – 30.
Following the Larry McMurtry Estate Auction at Vogt Auction in San Antonio earlier this year, Vogt is selling the estate of Lonesome Dove screenwriter and photographer Bill Wittliff on November 11 and 12.
Rare book dealer Peter Harrington’s cataloguing team credit a voice from beyond the grave in providing the clue to the recipient of a presentation copy of one of the rarities of English literature, a first edition, first impression of W.B. Yeats’s first book Mosada (1886). It is believed that…
The work of Max Beerbohm, the English artist, writer, and dandy noted for his satirical celebrity caricatures, is now on display in a new exhibition at The New York Public Library’s 42nd Street building.
Freeman’s November 16 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.
Two landscapes by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) lead Bonhams' Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art on November 14 at New Bond Street, London. Untitled (West Bengal Landscape) and Untitled (Dark landscape with cliffs and tree), are both individually estimated…
The British Library is suffering an ongoing cyber attack at its London and Yorkshire locations with its website down at the time of writing and only able to offer a restricted service.It comes as the Toronto Public Library is also reporting a cyber security incident.
There's something special about owning an original handwritten manuscript, but if a John Steinbeck fragment or Charlotte Brontë's 'Little Book' are out of reach then Handwritten: Remarkable People on the Page is the next best thing.
