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Chawton House has acquired a first edition of Jane Austen's Sanditon, three handwritten letters by…
The third part of JG Autographs's online Collecting Camelot: The Kennedy Legacy auction features…
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Handwritten lyrics by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury will be among thousands of personal items going on display and under the hammer at Sotheby's.
Among the 1,500 items including stage costumes, artwork, musical instruments, and furniture - and with a total estimate of £6m ($7.5m) - will be…
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Jayne Ptolemy, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
A revealing new Princeton University Library exhibition Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches: Selections from the John Doar Papers showcases photographs and documents from two watershed events during the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement, the Freedom Rides of 1961…
Animals: Art, Science and Sound at the British Library reveals how the intersection of science, art and sound has been instrumental in our understanding of the natural world and continues to evolve today.
From an ancient Greek papyrus detailing the mating habits of dogs to the earliest photographs…
A ‘lost’ novel by 20th century Scottish writer and translator, Willa Muir, has been published almost 70 years after she wrote it.
Hindman’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana auction will be held 11 May 2023 beginning at 10 am CT.
Although the pandemic put a temporary halt to live book fairs, Getman’s Virtual Book and Paper Fairs have taken place monthly since the pandemic began and are continuing now that book fairs have returned.
Phillis Wheatley’s 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, the first book published by an African American woman, a ‘tricky’ math problem Einstein solved for a class of high schoolers, and a Shaker manuscript hymnal are among the highlights at Bonhams’ Fine Books & Manuscripts…
Christie’s is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio with a landmark non-selling exhibition, Shakespeare’s First Folio: The First Four Hundred Years, uniquely bringing together six copies, the largest single display of First Folios assembled in the…
A missal owned by Fr John Huddleston, the Catholic priest who saved King Charles II's life after his defeat in the English Civil War, has been acquired by the National Trust.
