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During routine work on papyrus fragments in the Special Collections at Graz University Library, conservator Theresa Zammit Lupi came across an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century BC. It shows evidence of sewing, indicating that it must have been part of a book in codex form.
A 400-year-old prayer book that once belonged to a priest who helped save the life of King Charles II has gone on public display after being bought for the nation by the National Trust.
Botanical catalogues, lavish celestial atlases and unique pamphlets from the early modern period are among 30,000 titles being conserved and digitally catalogued in an ambitious collaboration to register the 18th-century Fagel Collection which fills a mile of shelving space in the Old…
Autographed material from the Civil Rights movement, art, business, science, and military feature in University Archives next Rare Autographs, Photographs, Books sale on June 28.
Posters promoting performers of yesteryear took several of the top lot slots in the latest Potter & Potter June magicana sale.
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery's exhibition One Life: Frederick Douglass explores the life and legacy of one of the 19th century’s most influential writers, speakers and intellectuals. The exhibition will showcase more than three dozen objects, including:
The Clive Bullimore Autograph Collection, including the signatures of around 60,000 different celebrities, amassed by a former stockbroker over more than 70 years is a Who’s Who of 20th century pop culture and expected make in excess of £100,000 at Sworders.
Elizabeth Xi Bauer has opened The moon between my teeth, an exhibition in London of new works by Gokula Stoffel in conversation with Alexandra Zarins’ most recent series of paintings, inspired by Anne Sexton’s poem The Frog Prince.
Christie’s will present an autograph letter from the 26-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his close friend Baroness von Waldstätten (estimate: £300,000–500,000) declaring that he will need to get married within two days in order to save his future wife from the scandal of…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter corrected page proofs led Christie’s' Fine Books and Manuscripts June sales, going for $693,000 to philanthropist and bibliophile Stuart Rose.
