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![Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–253) Homilia in Genesim, Homiliae in Exodum, in Latin, translation by Rufinus, decorated manuscript on parchment [Austria, Lambach Abbey? c. 1150–1175]. Estimate: $150,000-$200,000.](/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_feature_story/public/media-images/2026-06/origen.jpeg?itok=MvMiKSbf)
More than 65 illuminated manuscript leaves and cuttings alongside a selection of codices go under…
Books and letters associated with J.R.R. Tolkien's friendship with fan Eileen Elgar come to the…
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A signed leaf page by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand from Atlas Shrugged, a limited edition first offprint of Nature signed by DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick, and a 1919 document written and signed at the Kremlin by Vladimir Lenin lead University Archives’ online Rare…
A pristine first edition paperback copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has set a new world record selling for £17,000 at Rare Book Auctions.The book, which would have cost £4.99 when published, was kept unread in a loft for almost 30 years and had an estimate of £7,000-£…
Heritage Auctions' June 5–6 Pulp Magazines sale will feature an exceptionally rare color variant of Weird Tales No. 1 from March 1923, and a Doc Savage No. 1 from March 1933.Other highlights include:
Rain is the subject of the National Library of Scotland’s forthcoming major exhibition including a copy of 18th century Scottish scientist James Hutton’s Theory of Rain and rain in the poetry of Robert Burns.
Lake District-based autioneers Mitchell's will offer a major auction of furnishings from English poet William Wordsworth's final home Rydal Mount later this month.
The 2026 McKnight Book Artist Fellows are artist, photographer, and book artist Christopher Selleck and artist, writer, andn educator Brooks Turner.Christopher's interdisciplinary practice explores masculinity, identity, and vulnerability through photographs, sculpture, and intimate book-based…
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has revealed its public summer lecture series focusing on book history, bibliography, and print culture.* June 1: The 2026 Kress Foundation Art of the Book in Europe LectureAquatint Travel Books and the Haptic Picturesque with Douglas Fordham,…
George Washington's emergence from young surveyor to army commander and President is charted in 23 signed letters in Heritage Auctions' John H. Freund Americana Collection sale on June 19.Among them is a land survey completed when Washington was 19, a 1776 account of the seizure of Dorchester…
Sir Alec Guinness’s annotated copy of Hamlet, Virginia Woolf's copy of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, and Beethoven's autograph sketches for the overture Die Weihe des Hauses will go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Michael Alexandratos, who splits time between Sydney, Australia and Athens, Greece. Michael won the 2025 Australian National Book Collecting Prize for collectors aged 35 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
