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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London has announced its winter programme of…
The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale a letter from Thomas Jefferson to…
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This piece of scientific history sold by RR Auction in its Fine Autograph and Artifacts auction consists of one page, written on both sides and undated. The manuscript showcases numerous scientific formulae meticulously penned by Einstein, accompanied by a handful of German words written in his own…
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The Bodleian Libraries opens its new Alphabets Alive! exhibition next week focusing on the meeting point of art, alphabets and the book. From 15th century horn-books and colourful children’s ABC books to the artist’s book, the exhibition looks at what happens when letters and the book become the…
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At the Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts live auction in London, the two leading lots achieved remarkable results both surpassing their estimates.The top lot of the sale was an autograph letter by Albert Einstein to Rudi W. Mandl which sold for £604,800 hugely surpassing its estimate of £50…
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Under the hammer later this month from the Estate of Orson Welles is one of the Royal typewriters he used during the period when he wrote Citizen Kane, his War of the Worlds radio play, his unproduced adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and The Magnificent Ambersons.
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Hindman presents its Summer Reading: 20th-Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection sale later this month, featuring first editions from some of the most iconic authors of the 20th century.  
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Two hundred forty-seven years after its creation almost to the day, the first broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence printed in Massachusetts has been sold at Heritage Auctions for $2,895,000.
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This month marks 50 years since the British Library began operations in July 1973. Born out of a vision to create a new kind of national institution which would encourage scientific and technological research, business, the arts and humanities, the Library came into existence in 1973 as a result of…
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A music book once belonging to Jane Austen and bearing her signature, whereabouts unknown since 1978, has come to light.The volume, Domenico Corri’s Select Collection of Choice Music for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte (c.1790) has been donated to Chawton House ahead of its 20th Anniversary by…
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Christie’s has announced Charlie Watts: Gentleman, Collector, Rolling Stone – Literature and Jazz, a two-part auction the library of modern first edition books and extensive collection of jazz memorabilia amassed by the legendary musician and Rolling Stones’ drummer.
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More than 300 CGC-certified comic books will feature in Hakes' July 25-26 sale, including examples of nearly all of Marvel’s key Silver Age titles.