Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on through the end of 2025!
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Five years ago at the age of 70 when the pandemic forced the cancellation of his many shows,…
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Australia’s longest-running and most popular book exhibition, World of the Book, is celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary at State Library Victoria in Melbourne.Two recent acquisitions are on public display for the first time in Australia, a medieval scribal knife dated to the 15th century,…
Highlights of Swann Galleries' Printed & Manuscript Americana on June 12 spanning nearly five centuries of American history include: * Courtius, Klyn Loretten in Noord-America/ Little Loretto, KentuckyEngraving, circa 1812, a view of the compound built by the Sisters of Loretto, an order…
The Getty Research Institute's new exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives opens today exploring queer representation through a range of materials dating from 1900 to the present day.
Today, on the 155th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens, a previously unpublished photograph of the sale of his goods at his Gad's Hill home goes on show at the London museum where he once lived.
Ten handwritten letters by Swedish Hollywood star Greta Garbo, written in Swedish during the 1940s and 1950s, go under the hammer at Stockholms Auktionsverk on June 10.
The Bodleian Libraries’ exhibition Treasured which opens today features a range of the most fascinating books, manuscripts and items in its collections, including works by Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and JRR Tolkien.Running through October 26 at the Weston Library in Oxford, it focuses on the…
The only known photographs of mathematician and early computer programmer Ada Lovelace will go under the hammer next week at Bonhams' Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts online sale.
A green leather portfolio, believed to have housed the documents relating to the Louisiana Purchase and exhibited only once before in the United States nearly two decades ago, goes on public view at Sotheby’s New York today until June 11.It is being showcased alongside other Napoleonic treasures…
The British Library has acquired five exceptional medieval manuscripts from the private library at Longleat House, providing fresh insight into Jewish-Christian relations, the administration of a medieval town, theological debates, and medieval devotional art.
Going on show during Art Basel later this month is Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books' new exhibition Timeless Couture: The Art of Dress in Medieval Manuscripts.
