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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 Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale a rare copy of President George Washington’s 1793 Rules of Neutrality signed by Alexander Hamilton.
The Map House will present a new exhibition and sale Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023 exploring the evolution of London’s Tube system and the iconic London Underground map over 160 years.The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see and purchase hand-drawn and annotated manuscripts by Harry Beck on…
Highlights from the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America 75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair which opens today and runs through September 27 include: * * The Valley of Flowers by F.S. Smythe (London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1938)
After eight years of planning and construction, the Warburg Institute in London's Bloomsbury will reopen on October 2 following a £14.5 million transformation with newly renovated spaces including a new reading room.Designed by architects Haworth Tompkins, highlights include the Wohl Reading Room…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Emma Treleaven, winner of the 2023 ABA National Book Collecting Prize.Where are you from / where do you live?I grew up in Canada, but I’ve lived in London, England for over 10 years now. I'm lucky to call both places home!What did you study at…
A new exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of Claire Van Vliet’s Janus Press by showcasing the artist’s dramatic pulp paintings and prints alongside about two dozen artists’ books from the Boston Athenaeum’s Janus Press collection.
The National Archives will add the 19th Amendment, which removed restrictions for women to vote, to the permanent display of the Charters of Freedom in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, in March 2026.
At Artcurial on Tuesday, September 24, 120 lots of Livres & Manuscrits, including Buffon's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (1770–1786) in twenty volumes, estimated at €15,000–30,000 and Hans Bellmer's 1949 Les Jeux de la Poupée, Illustrés de textes par Paul Éluard (€25,000–35,000).
The 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize has been awarded to Elena Wicker from Washington, DC, soon to be a national security analyst at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, for Military Mania: A Collection of U.S. Military Dictionaries from 1776 to Today.
A first English edition of the Gothic novel The Necromancer, bearing the crested monogram of Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire, Baroness Sandys has been sold at Chorley’s Auctioneers for £12,500.
