The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
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The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
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At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, January 31, 210 lots of Literature, Miniatures, Graphics & Illustrated Books, including the 1969 Maecenas Press Alice in Wonderland portfolio with illustrations by Salvador Dali, Barry Moser's 1985 Wizard of Oz, and a vellum copy of the 1902 Essex House…
A banned World War II poster, best known by its nickname 'the blonde bombshell', is set to thrill as much as it did in 1941 at The Vintage Posters Sale between January 26 and February 2 online at bonhams.com. Designed by Abram Games, this rare vintage poster has become seductively infamous -…
An impressive single-owner collection of Football Ephemera & Programmes that includes items from the majority of football teams in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales as well as the World Cup, Internationals and the Olympics will be offered by Graham Budd Auctions on Tuesday, February 7,…
RR Auction's February Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction boasts over 850 rare and remarkable items and celebrates Presidents' Day with a special section featuring incredible presidential autographs, artifacts, and memorabilia.
A quick look at what's happening in and around California International Antiquarian Book Fair week. We'll be providing more details of these events in coming days.
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February 3-5: Rare Books San Francisco - For the first time in more than a decade, antiquarian book fairs return…
Highlights from Ken Spelman Books' latest catalogue of recently acquired rare books and manuscripts in gardening and botany including:
* Flowers: their Moral, Language, and Poetry by Henry Gardiner Adams. Scarce. Halifax: Milner and Sowerby. 1866. First published in 1844, and by Milner in 1860.…
An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts that reveal the secret histories and adventures of these precious medieval objects as they were collected and sold, lost, and re-found, over the course of hundreds of years is coming to the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Drawn from the Getty’s collection, A Passion…
The New York Public Library has acquired the archives of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. The dual collection comprises the couple’s literary and personal papers and stands as a rich testament to two of the most successful and important writers in postwar America.
Potter & Potter Auctions' February 2023 Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana Sale is the company's first book sale of 2023 and follows on the heels of the company's October, 2022 sale which realized $1.1 million. This 531 lot sale will be held on February 16th starting at 10am CST…
The David Stather Library, a remarkable private collection put together over a lifetime by an avid bibliophile, was sold in a single-owner sale at Tennants Auctioneers, North Yorkshire on January 25. The collection reflected his overriding interests in history and the law, and each book had been…
