British Library Publishing will publish Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery exploring the writer's…
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The ZKM Center for Art and Media is receiving 20,000 euros from the 'art meets science - Herbert W. Franke Foundation' to digitize over 1,800 manuscripts by Herbert W. Franke, whose archive has been at the ZKM since 2017. The donation will enable the ZKM to make articles and unpublished lecture…
Join the Book Owners Online team for a collaborative online research day about bookplates and the historical book owners who used them.
Open to everyone interested in provenance and book history, come along to learn about bookplates and Book Owners Online from David Pearson and his team, then put…
Highlights from Bernard Quaritch’s latest New Acquisitions catalogue and Bibles, Liturgy, Faith catalogue include:
* Collection of noëls. France (Verneuil-sur-Avre, Normandy), c. 1596 and later. An exceptional and extensive late 16th-century manuscript of French Advent and Christmas carols, each…
The Brontë Parsonage Museum 2023 exhibition, The Brontës and the Wild, considers how landscape, weather and the natural world play an important role in the lives and work of the Brontës.
Highlights of this fascinating new exhibition include the Brontë family copy of Thomas…
Earlier this month the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, opened In Light of Rome: Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842-1871. A comprehensive exhibition of early photography in the Eternal City, it features 112 works, many never before exhibited publicly or…
The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s Diversity Initiative Committee is proud to announce a paid summer internship program, co-sponsored by AbeBooks, aimed at providing an alternative route to success in the antiquarian and rare book business.
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Daniel Sarmiento, Curator in the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University in New York:
What is your role at your institution?
Quentin Blake at 90: A Birthday Auction in Support of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration at Bonhams raised £390,023. Each of the 139 lots found a buyer making it a white glove sale. The online auction ran on bonhams.com from Friday December 2 - Friday December 16, the day the…
Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce the results of this 500+ lot sale which was held on Saturday, December 10th, 2022. When the hammer finally fell silent after a long day of competitive bidding, 57 lots made $1,000-2,999; 18 lots made $3,000-9,999; and one lot broke the five figure…
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) and the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) have announced a new collaborative project, BibliographyWeek.org. This new venture promotes Bibliography Week and aims to make it easier for attendees to…
