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Porto's first Antiquarian Book Fair (1º Salão do Livro Antigo no Porto) will take place May 1-3 in…
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Christie’s will present Alice & Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Artists Collecting Art, an online sale of 50 select works which opens for bidding on June 30 until July 14, alongside a group of Old Master pictures and illuminated manuscripts that will be offered from their collection in the Old…
Childhood drawings by King Charles III of his parents in grand attire have been discovered in a major collection of royal memorabilia.The crayon and pencil portraits depict his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and father, Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. The queen wears a …
A Hogwarts acceptance letter and envelope used in the first of the Harry Potter movies is expected to sell for more than £10,000 ($16,620) at a June 22 auction conducted by Chiswick Auctions. The rare movie prop has been consigned after being bought it at a school charity auction in 2002.
Maurice Sendak’s illustrated Brothers Grimm tales and Where the Wild Things Are are among the significant works on offer in Heritage Auctions' June 30 Wild Things: The Art, Literature, and Theatre of Maurice Sendak auction.
Barely any correspondence between the English diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and the mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton (1643-1727) has survived. This makes the chance discovery of a handwritten letter from Newton to Pepys particularly exciting.
Or in Gaelic, Leabharlann Nàiseanta a’ cur air bhog a’ chiad taisbeanadh Gàidhlig aige riamh (to read this article in Gaelic, please scroll down the page).
Quite a busy week coming up!At ALDE on Tuesday, June 13, 391 lots of Éditions originales du XIXe siècle - Une bibliothèque littéraire du XXe siècle et à divers amateurs. An impressive copy of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) is expected to sell for €30,000–40,000.
The National Comedy Center will become the home of Joan Rivers’ career archive including a file cabinet containing more than 65,000 original jokes spanning from the start of her career in the 1950s to 2014 when she died.
A needlework sampler embroidered by a girl who married a direct descendant of William Bradford (1590-1657), signatory to the Mayflower Compact, comes to auction at the British auction house Sworders this month.
Three albums bring together 761 postcards featuring places in Staffordshire including Stafford, Lichfield, Whittington, and Chase Terrace, go under the hammer on day one of Richard Winterton Auctioneers’ Antiques & Home Sale on June 12. As a single lot, the three albums are estimated at £2…
