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The Bodleian Libraries' forthcoming exhibition Wonder of Birds will feature rare 10th century…
Bonhams' 50 Years Of Punk dedicated auction next week will focus on artefacts from bands such as…
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NEW YORK — The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick, along with Drs.
(Naples, Fla. - February 2013) — The Naples Art, Antique & Jewelry Show came to a close this past Monday after five days of impressive numbers and record-breaking attendance. The Naples Exhibition Center was transformed into one of the finest art, antique and jewelry exhibitions in the world,…
Some booksellers' memoirs are more enjoyable to read than others -- London bookseller David Batterham offers his as a series of amusing letters written between 1970 and 2006, posted from Barcelona, Brussels, Istanbul, Lisbon, Venice,
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present Richard Prince’s Cowboy paintings.
Over the last thirty years, the American cowboy has given rise to some of Prince’s most celebrated works. Dividing into several phases between the early 1980s and the present, his rephotographing of verité images inspired by…
The ABA (Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association) is delighted to announce that the St Bride Foundation will be the official charity of the London International Book Fair which opens on Thursday June 13 and runs until Saturday June 15.
The Grolier Club in New York City opened its new exhibit, American Little Magazines of the 1890s: A Revolution in Print. A product of the 'Gay Nineties,' little magazines, with names like Yellow Book, Chap-Book, the Philistine, and the Echo, are associated with the avant-garde and the emerging…
The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and The Folio Society have announced the first ever facsimile of the sketchbooks of Vincent van Gogh held in the museum’s collections.
San Francisco—The winter Fine Books & Manuscripts auction, February 17 at Bonhams in San Francisco brought a successful $716,038. It was led by the French edition of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius’ Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura, 1619, which…
This one is for the philatelists amongst the bibliophiles.In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, the Royal Mail in Britain yesterday issued six commemorative Jane Austen stamps. Each of her novels is represented by a separate stamp. The…
New York, NY — Vela Noche is delighted to announce the expansion of its catalog beyond books with the introduction of two new handmade limited edition portfolios of photographs. Vela Noche, to date, has published 5 books. We are thrilled to now offer collectors the finest portfolios of pigment…
