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Philadelphia — Freeman’s is honored to present John Hancock’s July 8, 1776 letter to Georgia announcing the Declaration of Independence. It is being offered in Freeman’s May 4 Books and Manuscripts auction, estimate upon request.
Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, England, the home of designer and writer William Morris (1834-1896), reopened to the public on April 1, after a 30-month refurbishment project.
London – If you set out to build a library of classic works of English literature, the novels of Charles Dickens would probably be high on the list. That at least was the view of Jeremy and Penny Martin whose wonderful collection of first editions, boasting works by Isaak Walton, Thomas Hardy and…
A very busy week is coming up in the auction rooms.
On Tuesday, April 5, Oeuvres Graphiques & Autographes (Aristophil 47) at Aguttes. The 305 lots include a January 20, 1890 Van Gogh manuscript letter to Madame Ginoux (€200,000–250,000) and an 1896 Paul Gauguin letter with added drawing (€100,…
Dallas, TX — Hooray for Hollywood — specifically, director James Cruze's star-studded 1923 comedy Hollywood.
It’s April and that means it’s National Poetry Month, the perfect time to share this news from Louisiana State University’s Special Collections: “The Wyatt Houston Day Collection of Poetry by African Americans, the most important private collection of Black poetry, now belongs to LSU. The LSU…
Oxford, England — The annual PBFA Oxford Book Fair is one of the largest events in the British antiquarian, rare and second-hand book, map, print and ephemera calendar.
In 2022 more than 75 dealers will offer tens of thousands of rare and collectable items, ranging in price from £2 to £10,000s.…
Earlier this month, the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport issued a temporary export ban on an early seventeenth-century music manuscript. Said to be worth more than £200,000, the handsomely bound manuscript is “one of the most extensive and important sources of lute music” and…
Los Angeles – The Getty Research Institute has acquired The Whitney and Lee Kaplan African American Visual Culture Collection.
The collection primarily documents Black visual culture in the United States, but also captures the broader context of art of the African diaspora with its inclusion…
Sara Gran, LA novelist and screenwriter, has a new bibliomystery out entitled "The Book of the Most Precious Substance." We featured her book in Rebecca Rego Barry's Spring 2022 Books About Books Roundup, where Rebecca called it "easily one of the most compelling biblio
