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This year’s Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting offered by the Bodleian Library’s Centre for…
Rare How the Grinch Stole Christmas artwork, Chuck Jones and Looney Tunes material, and Peanuts…
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Battling Over Books: Auction Catalogues and Their Contexts, 1676-2026 is the subject of the 47th Annual Conference on Book Trade History taking place in London later this year.
A letter from Carl Linnaeus to the German physician and botanist Christian Gottlieb Ludwig has set a new record for a Swedish letter at auction in Sweden in Stockholms Auktionsverk's latest Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts sale.
Melbourne Rare Book Week will return next month running July 23 through August 1 with an intriguing line-up of events, exhibitions, talks and lectures celebrating the world of rare and collectible books, as well as the annual Melbourne Rare Book Fair.Established in 2012, MRBW's 2026 programme…
A major personal archive of materials belonging to actor Terence Stamp featuring scripts, letters, photographs, costumes, furniture and fashion items will go under the hammer in the June 15-25 Sound & Cinema auction at Bonhams.
The Hake’s Anti-Slavery to Civil Rights online auction running through June 23 features items from the 1780s through the MLK era to the Obama presidency.
Work has finally been completed on ‘Delos’, the Greek-inspired garden at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, realising a planting scheme first envisioned by the English poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West more than 90 years ago.
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens today in London as the world’s largest space dedicated to illustration with a range of free displays. Situated at the base of the historic Dunard Engine House, the UK’s first dedicated public illustration library also includes space where…
Highlights of New York City Circa 1960: Works From the Collection of Robert A. Ellison Jr. at the Schoelkopf Gallery in New York include a group of letters, postcards, telegrams, and public statements documenting the 1959 controversy surrounding a nude painting by…
Christie’s will run the last offering in its The Jim Irsay Collection: Icons of History auction series next month with a final group of objects from the personal collection of the late philanthropist and owner of the Indianapolis Colts. Highlights include:
Leading RR Auction’s upcoming Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is an extensive archive of top-secret operational battle directives issued by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery during the Allied liberation of Europe between May 1944 and June 1945. Preserved from the personal files of Major-…
