![A Declaration […] Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity [of] Taking up Arms (Philadelphia: Bradford, 1775)](/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_feature_story/public/media-images/2025-12/declaration.jpg?itok=djuC7fMn)
The current exhibition at The New York Historical focuses on the development of the ideas of the…
Fine Books News: Recent
The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
Topics
James H. Billington, the 13th Librarian of Congress and renowned scholar of Russia, today announced that he will retire from the position of Librarian effective January 1, 2016. In a video announcement shared with all Library staff, Billington said, "Leading this great institution alongside all of…
A Gutenberg Bible for sale? Well, not entirely. What Sotheby's New York will offer next week is an eight-page fragment of the book printed by Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust in 1455.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Juan Felipe Herrera as the Library’s 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, for 2015-2016. Herrera will take up his duties in the fall, participating in the Library of Congress National Book Festival on Saturday,…
Peter de Sève, an illustrator and character designer for feature films, is the artist for the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival poster.
The Nancy Drew Sleuths, an organization of collectors, fans, and scholars, is celebrating the popular book series' 85th anniversary this year. To that end, the group has held two mini-conventions--one in Iowa City from April 30-May 3, the other in Toledo, Ohio, from May 28-31--and will embark on…
FALLS CHURCH, Va.—Along with the traditional fare of rare books, Quinn’s Auction Galleries’ Waverly Rare Books and Maps Catalog #265 offers antique maps of European cities, North America and beyond.
LONDON, Maddox Street—200 years after the Battle of Waterloo and the death of James Gillray, Bloomsbury Auctions celebrate political and social cartoons with their auction of Napoleonic & Georgian Social and Political Satire.
DALLAS—Andy Warhol’s Moonwalk, 1987, direct from the private collection of moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, shattered its previous $111,873 record to sell for $173,000 following interest by 22 bidders in Heritage Auctions’ $4+ million Modern & Contemporary Art Auction in Dallas May 30 in Dallas.
Coming to auction in California later this week is a "Horrors of War" trading card collection--Hitler and bubbl
Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was perceived as being so reluctant to talk about his late teenage years that he came under criticism for constructing his own, mythical narrative of his youth.
