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Highlights from the natural history offerings at Firsts London which opens today and runs through…
The Bibliographical Society has launched its own YouTube channel featuring recordings of its…
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A significant historical document signed by President Grover Cleveland approving Utah's entry as the 45th state into the Union has been sold for $27,188 by RR Auction. Dated January 4, 1896, the one-page document features President Cleveland's directive to the Secretary of State to affix the…
Emulating Books: Book Objects from the Lynn and Bruce Heckman Gift is a fascinating new exhibition opening today which features a wide range of items which look like books but aren't.Running through July 16 in the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it…
Our regular look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Library Thief by Kuchenga ShenjéA debut novel with a Gothic feel as Florence, daughter of a bookbinder, takes on the task of restoring a collection of rare books at the unsettling Rose…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Maggie Mazzullo, proprietor of M Mazzulloo Bookseller in Colorado.How did you get started in rare books?
Vivian Maier's photographs only caught the world's attention several years after her death when storage locker sales in Chicago unearthed thousands of her photos and negatives. On May 2, Heritage Auctions will present a selection of her photographs that she printed herself or had printed in her…
Books written by and inscribed to the late former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will go under the hammer next month at Freeman’s | Hindman.The private collection will be sold across a sequence of live and online sales including her distinctive pins and the fine and decorative arts…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig with a special display featuring his 1966 Honda Super Hawk motorcycle.
The New-York Historical Society will present Lost New York, a new exhibition exploring the places that once defined New York City from April 19 until September 29, focusing on the city’s lost landmarks such as the original Penn Station, Croton Reservoir, Chinese Theater, and river bathhouses. …
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A new exhibition will be the first to celebrate the animals that found their way into the books and homes of Charles Dickens, throwing the spotlight on to the dogs, ravens, goldfinches and cats who shared houseroom with the Dickens family, as well as Dickens’s horses …
