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A 400-year-old prayer book that once belonged to a priest who helped save the life of King Charles II has gone on public display after being bought for the nation by the National Trust.
Botanical catalogues, lavish celestial atlases and unique pamphlets from the early modern period are among 30,000 titles being conserved and digitally catalogued in an ambitious collaboration to register the 18th-century Fagel Collection which fills a mile of shelving space in the Old…
The eighth annual Bodies From The Library conference at the British Library takes place on June 24 and there's still time to obtain last minute tickets.
Autographed material from the Civil Rights movement, art, business, science, and military feature in University Archives next Rare Autographs, Photographs, Books sale on June 28.
Applications for the ninth York Antiquarian Book Seminar (YABS) 2023 are now open, offering the chance to learn about the rare book trade from some of the best booksellers and librarians in the country.
Posters promoting performers of yesteryear took several of the top lot slots in the latest Potter & Potter June magicana sale.
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery's exhibition One Life: Frederick Douglass explores the life and legacy of one of the 19th century’s most influential writers, speakers and intellectuals. The exhibition will showcase more than three dozen objects, including:
The Clive Bullimore Autograph Collection, including the signatures of around 60,000 different celebrities, amassed by a former stockbroker over more than 70 years is a Who’s Who of 20th century pop culture and expected make in excess of £100,000 at Sworders.
Elizabeth Xi Bauer has opened The moon between my teeth, an exhibition in London of new works by Gokula Stoffel in conversation with Alexandra Zarins’ most recent series of paintings, inspired by Anne Sexton’s poem The Frog Prince.
On Wednesday, June 21, Lyon & Turnbull sell 329 lots of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs. An album of 26 watercolors by Shaykh Muhammad Amir of Karraya or his studio, known as the Balfour Album, shares the top estimate of £15,000-20,000 with a 1663 portolan chart of the…
