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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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Christie's Books & Manuscripts Department is pleased to present a fine selection of material highlighting both important science and Americana.
Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library, has been knighted for services to literature in the 2023 New Year Honours which recognises the achievements and service of people across the UK.
Join us for the 2023 D. F. McKenzie Memorial Lecture, by Professor Tom Mole, author of the best-selling publication The Secret Life of Books. As new media radically changes our experience of books, this illustrated lecture draws on a wide range of examples to explore all the things we do with books…
While we concentrate at FB&C on rare books that are actually available, it’s a sad truth that some marvellous titles are no longer with us. Here’s a brief look at some of those we have lost over the last two centuries.
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Happy New Year! We are in the midst of a holiday quiet period in the sale rooms, but there's still at least one sale to watch this week, and a bit of December housekeeping to note. In my post for the week of December 12 I noted the scheduled sale on December 13 of the Van Sinderen copy of the first…
One hundred years after his death, a rare book signed by Polar adventurer and hero Ernest Shackleton has been unearthed by an intrepid librarian in the unfathomed depths of the University of London’s Senate House Library.
As the year comes to a close, we like to look back on the stories that particularly appealed to our readers, a list that includes Bob Dylan, bookish cookies, and sea monsters — go figure!
#1 How to Catalogue Your Personal Library, aka an updated list of software and apps recommended by our staff…
The much-anticipated exhibition, 'Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory', is scheduled to open on February 22, 2023, in Princeston University Library's Firestone Library’s Milberg Gallery. Conceived by Autumn Womack, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, the exhibition is a…
January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day when certain works of literature, film, and music from 1927 become available to everybody. Copyright terms vary from country to country but Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, has put together her annual selected…
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing SHARP Book History Book Prize (formerly the DeLong Book History Book Prize) annually awards a $1,000 prize to the author of the best book on any aspect of the creation, dissemination, or uses of script or print published in the…
