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Printed in Kilmarnock by John Wilson during the summer of 1786 and published on July 21, 1786, the…
The National Library of Scotland and publishers DC Thomson are celebrating the 90th anniversary of…
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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Evan DeTurk, an undergraduate student at Princeton University where he was the winner of this year's Elmer Adler Book Collecting Prize.
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Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions' poster sale held on August 20th, 2022 was a wall-to-wall success. When the hammer fell silent for the last time, 47 lots made $750-$1,499; 22 lots scored $1,500-$3,999; and seven lots broke the $4,000 mark. All prices noted include the company's 20% buyer's…
Today the winners of the inaugural David Ruggles Prize, a new national book collecting prize established to support and encourage young collectors of color, have been announced.
Philadelphia — Freeman’s September 21 Books and Manuscripts auction, the inaugural sale of the Fall 2022 season, is led by an extremely rare first edition of New Englands First Fruits (estimate: $20,000-30,000), a 1643 account of Puritan evangelization in New England. The first copy to be offered…
New York – Christie’s is honored to continue its historic sales of the library of the leading antiquarian book dealer of his generation with the most important private holding of books, manuscripts and other material related to perhaps the most important American author of the 19th century. The…
1639 Henricus Hondius map showing California as an island, offered at Hindman this week.
On January 28, 2009, Dr. James Hutson, Chief of the Manuscripts Division at the Library of Congress, sent a letter to manuscript and special collections librarians concerning certain Walt Whitman notebooks which went missing from the Library in 1942. Enclosed with the letter was a 1954 brochure, "…
One of the oldest surviving copies of The Aeneid, an illuminated manuscript written and illustrated in Rome sometime around 400 A.D., has been digitized by the Vatican Library and is now freely available to view online.
Boston – The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (BIABF) is making its much-anticipated return to the Hynes Convention Center in downtown Boston from November 11-13, 2022. The 44th Boston Book Fair is the annual fall gathering for book lovers and collectors, featuring the top selection of…
Sometime around 1886, Oscar Wilde was assigned to write a book review of Percy H. Fitzgerald's book, The Book Fancier: or, The romance of book collecting, published that year by S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington in London and Scribner & Welford in New York.
