The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
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New York—On Tuesday, May 10, Swann Galleries will hold an auction of Graphic Design, with posters and ephemera that highlight the shifting trends in imagery and typography styles starting in the late 1800s and moving
The Book of Margery Kempe, (between 1436 and 1438), is currently on display along with Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love (1373) at the Wellcome Collection in London.
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (Simon & Schuster, $26) by former Newsweek foreign correspondent Joshua Hammer is the engrossing story of Abdel Kader Haidara, an archivist and historian who helped recreate Timbuktu's historic…
Acting Librarian of Congress David S. Mao today announced two leadership appointments.
New York—Swann Galleries’ April 7 auction of African-American Fine Art brought over $1.8 million and set records for multiple artists at auction.
A particularly nasty letter from Mary Todd Lincoln will be on the block May 5 at Les
Last month, I had the pleasure of receiving a personal tour of an exhibition at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia with curator David Whitesell. The exhibition, entitled "Fearsome Ink: The English Gothic Novel to 1830" will be on display through…
Charlottesville, VA, April 18, 2016-Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a four-day international conference, “Bibliography Among the Disciplines.” To be held in Philadelphia in October 2017, the meeting…
Coming to auction this week at Freeman's in Philadelphia is this colorful embroidered map of Washington, D.C. created by teenager Susanna Wilkinson Atkinson in 1807.
New York—Swann Galleries’ March 31 auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana brought in more than $850,000, led by items related to Civil Rights, Frederick Douglass and
