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Christie’s will present more than 350 photographs from the Roger Therond Collection …
Highlights from the collection of Maurice F. Neville featuring association copies, manuscripts and…
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A cache of correspondence by the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale will go under the hammer at Sworders on November 1 consigned by a descendent of Sir Thomas Longmore, the Surgeon-General and professor of military surgery at the Army Medical School.
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In Autumn 2027 the British Library will present Conquest: The Making of Norman England, the first national exhibition to explore the history and impact of Norman rule in England. 
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A major exhibition exploring the history of poverty and housing in London opens today at University of London’s Senate House Library.Running through March 5, 2027, A Place to Call Home: Poverty and Housing in London is a collaboration between University of London and London School of Economics (LSE…
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The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera Collection: Feminist Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century.This is the last iteration of the annual prize which was launched in 2017 for American women book collectors aged 30 and younger.
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The British Library has announced it has acquired the archive of novelist, short story writer, and literary critic Dame A. S. Byatt.Best known for her Booker prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance (1990), Byatt's archive is one of the most significant contemporary literary additions to the…
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A first edition first printing of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for $400,000 at Heritage Auctions, the second-highest auction price for the title behind the $471,000 record Heritage established in December 2021.
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Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has unveiled two exhibitions focusing on the experimental arts magazine Fire!!, and the nonprofit literary organization Cave Canem.
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The Christie's online Rare Books and Manuscripts sale running October 27 through November 5 will feature engravings by Dürer and 20th century manuscripts by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Boulez, and André Breton.A collage-letter by Breton addressed to Louis Aragon in 1918 (estimate: €30,000-€40,000)…
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A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein filled with mathematical equations examining covariance and invariance in Hamiltonian mechanics sold for $71,811 at RR Auction's latest Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.
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Opening next month at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, Plain Things Wonders marks 400 years since the publication of Francis Bacon’s influential experimental science text Sylva Sylvarum.