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The Hispanic Society Museum & Library has announced the launch of The Hispanic Society Poetry…
A collection of rare books, fine writing implements, and library furniture belonging to Australian…
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A Frederick Douglass signed letter from March 13, 1893, addressed to Frederick Perry Noble, Secretary of the African Congress is among the highlights of University Archives' May 6 Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books auction.
A site-specific art installation partly inspired by a quote from Pride and Prejudice is running at Jane Austen’s House in England where she spent the last eight years of her life.
Our regular look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month. Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand Books by Nicholas Royle
Porto's first Antiquarian Book Fair (1º Salão do Livro Antigo no Porto) will take place May 1-3 in the city's Fundação Manuel António da Mota.The event is sponsored and organized by the Fundação Miranda de Andrade and the antiquarian bookseller Paulo Gaspar Ferreira from the In-Libris bookshop.…
An early 9th century manuscript containing a text of Caedmon’s Hymn has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin.
Highlights from the exhibitors at the 2026 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair which runs April 30-May 3 include:* Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
Rare books from the personal library of pioneering British scholar of Armenian and Iranian studies Professor Charles Dowsett form part of Sworders’ Books and Maps online sale running through May 4.
Rare books stolen from a Long Island home in the 1980s have been returned to the heirs of John Hay Whitney and Betsey Whitney.John Whitney was a decorated veteran from World War II, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, president of the Museum of Modern Art, and Ambassador to the United Kingdom…
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has completed its website redesign aimed at improving access to its wide range of courses, resources, and programs. “This new website reflects who we are and whom we aspire to serve,” said RBS Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J. “Our…
Two pages of handwritten working lyrics to Genesis's That's All with visible differences from the final released version will be among the highlights of The King’s Trust 50th Anniversary Auction: Featuring the Phil Collins Archive at Julien's Auctions later this year.
