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The current exhibition at The New York Historical focuses on the development of the ideas of the…
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RR Auction's April Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features a selection of classical music pieces by Beethoven and Bach, as well as a letter by Nikola Tesla and a remarkable cache of documents from John Dillinger's first arrest.
During April this year the six legal deposit libraries of the UK and Ireland, the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library and The Library of Trinity College Dublin, are celebrating 10 years of collecting…
A hundred-year-old Peace Petition signed by almost 400,000 Welsh Women is to return to Wales as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History transfers the oak chest and petition to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
After the execution of King Charles I in 1649 and death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, public unrest in Britain was rife, with increasing chaotic scenes in government and a growing desire for the return of the exiled King, Charles II. After a decade in waiting, plotting a series of failed conspiracies…
Significant drawings from the Al Hirschfeld Foundation will top Heritage Auction’s Illustration Art Event sale this month, with other highlights including fresh-to-market pin-ups by Gil Elvgren, intimate studies by Joseph Leyendecker and cartoons by Charles Addams.
The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) and the New York Public Library (NYPL) have announced that ABAA Connect will return for the second year in a row for its 63rd edition.
The Folio Society has release a new limited edition of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the book’s original publication.
Swann’s annual Printed & Manuscript African Americana auction was the most successful in its 28-year history. The sale set records with $1,377,463 in total sales and a 94% sell-through rate. It was the third largest sale in the history of the house’s book department behind only two noted single…
University Archives is embracing the revolutionary spirit by offering more than 55 lots of material autographed by Declaration of Independence signers and a cheerful pre-election note by Abraham Lincoln.
A new exhibition at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House explores for the first time how Elizabeth Gaskell represented her home city in her novels and the impact of her writing from Victorian times to the present.
