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Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, will host a Sunday, June 24th auction featuring a broad range of rare antique books as well as groups of collectible ephemera. Featured is a large collection of primarily antique works from the fields of geology and paleontology. We will…
- Bonhams London sold Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs on 3 June, the top lot being Francis Frith's Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem (1858), a collection of twenty albumen photographs. It sold for £337,250. A collection of Howard Carter's papers fetched £109,250.
At some point in childhood, who
hasn't leapt onto a rope swing, real or imagined, beat their chest like a wild person,
and hollered a blood curdling yell, before plunging into cool waters below?
(June 15, 2012 - Palm Beach, FL) The Palm Beach Show Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Los Angeles Art Show from the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA). The acquisition that closed Wednesday includes the Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Modern & Contemporary and the Los…
New York, NY, June 14, 2012—In 1976 composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson redefined opera with the debut in Avignon, France, of Einstein on the Beach. The nearly five-hour, non-narrative work broke a host of operatic conventions and would become the most celebrated of the many…
A century ago, New York philanthropist Jacob H. Schiff purchased an initial collection of nearly 10,000 Hebrew books and pamphlets from bibliophile and book dealer Ephraim Deinard for the Library of Congress. This gift formed the nucleus of what is today one of the world’s greatest collections of…
Philadelphia, Thursday, June 14, 2012-- Coinciding with the nation's celebration of Flag Day on June 14th, Freeman's is proud to announce that a complete and extremely rare eighteenth-century battle flag of the Eighth Virginia Regiment under the command of Colonel Peter Muhlenberg (1746-1807) will…
Europe's largest specialist map fair will take place this weekend at the Royal Geographic Society in London on Saturday, June 16th, and Sunday, June 17th.
In 1935 a reader of the Times Literary Supplement wrote in to address a 'revolution' in libraries: "Perhaps the greatest change which has taken place has been in t
