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The Morgan Library & Museum has received a $2.5m grant from the Lilly Endowment's Religion and…
Claire White has been appointed as the Shaetlan Scriever and takes up a year-long residency with…
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Damaged Goods on view in the Huntington Art Gallery’s first floor brings together books and document marked by natural processes, human error, and intentional acts of censorship.
The top-selling item at the auction of Colonel Harland Sanders' personal collection at the Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville, Kentucky was Sanders' personal dandwritten datebook and working planner which sold for $30,000. More than a simple appointment book, the planner served as…
The Making of a Medieval Manuscript exhibition examining how medieval manuscripts were produced in Europe and the Mediterranean region opens at The J. Paul Getty Museum on August 4.It will feature Christian manuscripts from Europe, Armenia, and Ethiopia, as well as objects of Jewish and Muslim…
Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten autographed strategy blueprint for his 1858 Senate race against Stephen A. Douglas leads Heritage Auctions' The Alfred Orendorff Archive: Treasures from the Law Offices of Abraham Lincoln on July 30.
More than 1,000 books from the personal library of illustrator and author Raymond Briggs have gone on sale at Oxfam's bookshop in Hove.
39-year-old lawyer from Tampa Chris Dutton has become the first 'Young Hemingway' ever to win Sloppy Joe's Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.Dutton emerged from a field of 134 registered contestants, via two preliminary rounds before defeating 23 other finalists to claim the title on his seventh…
A Nikola Tesla letter on wireless telegraphy, Marilyn Monroe signed presentation photo, and a Bruce Lee signed program from the 1967 International Karate Championships in California will all join Albert Einstein's notes when they go under the hammer in University Archives’ online Rare Autographs,…
The Antiquarian Book School Foundation has announced the return of the 2026 CABS-Minnesota Antiquarian Book Seminar, the longest running training program for antiquarian booksellers in the United States.It will be held in person at St Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota, with seminar…
A comprehensive collection of personal Colonel Harland Sanders memorabilia including his personal recipe cards comes to auction on July 28 at Claudia Sanders Restaurant in Shelbyville, Kentucky.Many of the items going under the hammer on the property where he lived and worked originate from…
Printed in Kilmarnock by John Wilson during the summer of 1786 and published on July 21, 1786, the first edition of Robert Burns' Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect known as the 'Kilmarnock' introduced readers to many of Robert Burns’ best-loved poems and songs.
