The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
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The 20 ghost stories by the author of A Christmas Carol are the focus of a new exhibition To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts & the Supernatural.
New York – An autograph scientific manuscript using the new concept of logarithms to determine the movement of the planets by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) comes to auction on October 25 at Bonhams’ History of Science and Technology, including Space History in New York. The manuscript, estimated at $…
Los Angeles — The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents Joan Didion: What She Means, an exhibition as portrait of the author Joan Didion organized by Hilton Als—writer, curator, and critically acclaimed New Yorker contributor—in collaboration with Hammer chief curator Connie Butler and curatorial…
As the four Folios of Shakespeare are the highest prize of English book-collecting, and the Foligno Dante of Italian, so the early editions Don Quixote printed during of Miguel de Cervantes’s lifetime - are the highest prize of Spanish book-collecting.
New York – On October 25, Bonhams will present the most important 18th century map of California as the highlight of its Exploration and Travel Literature, featuring Americana sale in New York.
Another very busy week coming up! Here are the sales I'll be watching:
At ALDE on Tuesday, October 11, Bibliothèque d'un amateur – Livres illustrés modernes, in 137 lots.
The work of Bob Dylan including his early poems has become highly collectible and a new profile by Greil Marcus takes a look at the singer and writer's life and work in Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs from Yale University Press.
New York - Paris Photo and Aperture are excited to announce the shortlist for the 2022 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards, on the tenth anniversary of the awards - a celebration of the photobook’s contributions to the evolving narrative of photography. The award recognizes excellence in three…
Los Angeles - The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Visualizing the Virgin Mary, featuring vibrant, illuminated manuscripts depicting stories of the Virgin Mary that attest to her role as one of the most adored figures in the Christian tradition.
Mostly drawn from the Getty’s collection,…
Rare books specialist Rebecca Romney is to hold an online introduction to rare book collecting with an emphasis on romance novels.
