The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by John Hancock, The Seed of American Victory Over Great Britain: The Continental Congress Appoints the American Envoy to France, which sold for $563,200, following a pre-sale estimate of $150,000–250,000.

An album featuring the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and George Harrison's broken guitar string has been sold at  Richard Winterton Auctioneers for £7,000.The signatures were obtained by Portsmouth teenager Elizabeth Salt (Liz McBrierty, as she was then) who met John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George…

The Brooklyn Museum has unveiled a rare 21ft complete and gilded Book of the Dead, the finest surviving example of its kind.Presented to the public for the  first time following a three-year conservation project, the papyrus anchors a newly refreshed funerary installation Unrolling Eternity in…

The earliest known check drawn from Apple’s original bank account has sold for $2,409,886 at RR Auction's Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction.Dated March 16, 1976, the Wells Fargo check marked 'No. 1' was written to printed circuit board designer Howard…

Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from childhood to his death through more than 60 items from the collection of Grolier Club member Jacob Loewentheil.

After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns next month.

Freeman’s will begin its yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States tomorrow with its 153-lot Printed and Manuscript Americana auction spanning key moments in American history from the Revolutionary era to the 21st century.

An archive of Louisa May Alcott material acquired by the Concord Free Public Library includes letters from the author to publisher Thomas Niles about the illustrations in the first edition of Little Women.

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of film star Olivia de Havilland.

Sotheby’s' Visions of America auction series this month is led by its Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana sale which brings together autograph letters, manuscripts, and printed works tracing the American story from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War and into the 20th…