Fine Books News: Recent

Leading Heritage Auctions’ April 7 Photographs auction is a rare, medium-format mural print of…
Firestone Library’s Milberg Gallery will focus on the world of revolutionary Princeton with the…
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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside the Irish nationhood using rare books, manuscripts, letters, theatre pamphlets, political propaganda, and photographs.
Current Events & Trends
An autograph album including a scarce Jane Austen signature with Austen family provenance is on offer in the online Fine Books, Atlases & Manuscripts auction at Bonhams finishing March 26.
Book Fairs
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with more than 60 exhibitors offering a huge variety of vintage posters, postcards, letters, photographs, tickets, brochures, and advertisements.Held at The Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut, the…
Compelling Collections
Highlights of the Potter & Potter Vintage Posters auction on March 26 include:Job (Paris: F. Champenois, 1898) Classic Art Nouveau advertising poster by Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939) showing a woman with a cigarette rolled with Job papersPeaceful Paradise Valley/Northern Pacific Railway (St…
Four national libraries across Ireland and the United Kingdom have been awarded €750,000 through the UK-Ireland Cultural Co-operation Programme for Across These Islands: Shared Histories, Shared Futures, a first-of-its-kind partnership to widen access to their national collections, deepen research…
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Shetland Museum and Archives will host the final instalment of The National Library of Scotland’s centenary programme later this month with a focus on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid.Running March 28 through June 20, Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay will focus on the years that MacDiarmid (pen name…
Current Events & Trends
Carte de Visites highlights of the Freeman's The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography auction on March 20 include:* A group of 14 Carte de Visites of Abraham Lincoln and familyFeaturing Lincoln with his son Tad, five CDVs of Lincoln, four CDVs of Mary Todd Lincoln, and a…
Current Events & Trends
Campaigners working to ensure that the Lake District home of William Wordsworth remains open to the public have announced a successful conclusion to their work.
Fairs
Edinburgh Book Fair returns this week to the country's capital running March 20-21 at the Intercontinental Edinburgh The George Hotel.Entry is free to the fair which is Scotland's largest rare book fair and features dozens of specialist booksellers from around the country. It is organised by the…
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The annual Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript African Americana sales was launched in March 1996 by Wyatt Houston Day who was the specialist for the first 22 sales.On March 19, the ninth Printed & Manuscript African Americana sale handled by Swann’s Americana specialist Rick Stattler will…