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Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and…
A one-page signed autograph manuscript featuring Franz Schubert’s choral setting Das Grab has sold…
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The British Library has issued a new update on its recovery from last year's cyber attack in October 2023 which affected virtually every section of its service.
Posters designed by Leslie Ragan for the New York Central Lines railroad come up for sale at Swann Galleries today at its Rare & Important Travel Posters auction.Ragan designed one of the most recognizable American train posters, an Art Deco image of The New 20th Century Limited, the Henry…
A framed collection of pens used by American presidents to sign historically significant legislation goes under the hammer Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political auction November 1-2.
Objects believed to have inspired Jane Austen’s writings and a full collection of her first editions are the centrepieces of a brand-new permanent exhibition at the writer museum Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire.
RR Auction’s monthly Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale runs through October 16 with more than 800 lots of signed books, autograph letters, and historically significant documents from the 16th century to the present day. Highlights include:
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Nubia Lateefa who is the owner and curator of The People's Porch, a mobile library archive of historic Black memorabilia.
The NYPL has acquired the archive of Oliver Sacks which showcases the life and career of the author and perhaps most important medical humanist of the 20th century.
The Bloomsbury group circle of writers, intellectuals, and artists is the focus of new collaboration between Sotheby's and Charleston, the creatives' rural retreat in Sussex.Sotheby’s will host Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston, a private selling and loan exhibition on view November…
At Bonhams online on Tuesday, October 8, 139 lots of Posters, including two by Toulouse-Lautrec which share the top estimate at €30,000–40,000: the 1892 Reine de Joie, and the 1895 poster The Chap Book, for an Irish bar in the Rue Royale. Alphonse Mucha's Job is expected to sell for €16,000–18,000.
This week's entry is a King Ottokar’s Sceptre cover from one of the most popular of Belgian artist Georges Rémi's Adventures of Tintin series which comes up for sale at Heritage Auctions' October 12-13 sale.It is the cover of the February 16, 1939 issue of Le Petit Vingtième, the Belgian newspaper…
