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Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten autographed strategy blueprint for his 1858 Senate race against…
More than 1,000 books from the personal library of illustrator and author Raymond Briggs have gone…
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More than 170 fabric and textile sample books, mostly French, spanning the early nineteenth century through the 1940s, head to auction at Tennants in North Yorkshire, England, next week. The current owner amassed them over three decades, using them for reference and inspiration. According to the…
Amsterdam — This weekend, Catawiki launched a selection of high value lots across the platform. This has been called the “Exclusive Selection” Readers can find the full range of items in this collection by entering #exclusiveselection into the search box. This will offer viewers several…
London -- Following the success of the June and September editions of Firsts Online, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (ABA) has announced the third staging of its online fair series, scheduled to run Friday 27th November to Wednesday 2nd December on a new dedicated website www.firsts-online…
And I thought last week was busy! It's a veritable deluge of sales this week:
Forget politics and spend 25 minutes looking at beautiful old books at one of England's oldest schools. From medieval manuscripts to contemporary artists’ books, the Fellows’ Library at Winchester College contains more than 10,000 rare books, including an Ulm Ptolemy and John Eliot's "Indian…
A team of cataloguers, curators, conservators, and imaging specialists at the British Library (BL) has completed a seven-year project to digitize a collection of early maps from its Topographical Collection of King George III, aka “K. Top.”
California — Most great collectors started when they were young, and most great collections started with a passion for a particular object or subject. When these objects are books and manuscripts, the collectors are called bibliophiles, or lovers of the book.
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England — A small pen and ink sketch of Christopher Robin by E.H. Shepard is one of the top lots in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs Sale on 18th November, which will be an online sale. The sketch, in which Christopher Robin faces away, is…
New York — Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, is pleased to announce the 2020 Alice Award Short List:
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Jasmine Clark, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Temple University in Philadelphia:
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