The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
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A first edition, first issue of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, one of the most important scientific texts ever written, comes to Auktionshaus Kiefer this month.
Dallas - It's a question often asked by the outside observer perplexed by the ever-increasing interest in and value of original pages of comic-book art: Why? Yet the answer remains straightforward; the explanation is perhaps even obvious. Because these are the raw, handmade images that…
The Grolier Club’s series of events associated with their exhibition Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young continues with an in-Person Lecture, Ethel Reed: America's Aubrey Beardsley.
Quite a wide range of sales coming up this week: here's what I'll be watching:
Painted by a single artist, the Códice Maya de México is the oldest surviving book in the Americas and records the movements of the planet Venus across its cycles as Morning and Evening Star, a journey reckoned to take 584 days from the vantage point of Earth and calculated in this book across 104…
The Brontë Society is pleased to announce the permanent appointment of Rebecca Yorke as Director of the Brontë Society and Brontë Parsonage Museum. Rebecca, who first joined the Museum in early 2015 in a marketing and communications role, has been a member of the organisation’s senior management…
Rare book expert Brian Lake who runs Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers in London has put together a compilation of the strangest book covers in history in his new book Librorum Ridiculorum A Compendium of Bizarre Books.
On November 17, 2022 PBA Galleries will host a Rare Books & Manuscripts sale with over 250 lots of valuable and interesting books in all fields, with select manuscript material and other rarities.
The British Library has announced its coming exhibitions for 2023 which feature a number of items which will interest Fine Books readers.
An apparently unpublished, original drawing by Arthur Rackham depicting Santa Claus from inside a chimney on Christmas Eve is included in Peter Harrington's new Christmas catalogue.
