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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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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has announced that the Billy Rose Theatre Division has acquired the archive of George C. Wolfe, the writer, director, and producer. The acquisition continues the Library’s mission to preserve documents of important figures who have advanced…
Potter & Potter Auctions' June, 2023 Magic Auction includes selections from the collections of Jim Deloach, William Trotter, and Ken Klosterman's Salon de Magie library.
Posters featuring magician superstars of yesteryear take several of the top lot slots in this sale including:
A remarkable unseen trove of Freddie Mercury’s handwritten lyrics and working drafts for Queen’s have been unveiled by Sotheby's in New York, before travelling to Los Angeles and Hong Kong. The manuscripts will then return to London as part of a month-long exhibition in August prior to their sale…
The Raab Collection has announced the discovery of an important document from World War II, a forgotten relic of a great mission connecting the victory against the Nazis to a little known US/UK exchange, never before seen by the public or offered for sale.
Rare Book School's 2023 summer’s lecture series gets underway on June 5 at the Dome Room, UVA Rotunda with S. Max Edelson, Professor of History, University of Virginia, talking on The Surveyor’s Eye: Topographic Mapping and the Contest for Empire in Eighteenth-Century British America in the NEH-…
The Bodleian Libraries' new Gifts and Books exhibition will explore the importance of giving and receiving books, asking what this apparently simple act reveals about human relationships and beliefs.
Opening at the Weston Library on 16 June 2023, the exhibition will display items from the Bodleian…
UNESCO has recognized an international set of 15 manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat Aceh manuscripts from Leiden University Libraries as World Heritage.
Two complete sets of Beatles autographs and never-before-seen snapshots of Paul McCartney and George Harrison from a 1963 gig are coming to auction in Staffordshire. The autograph books have the rare distinction of bearing all four signatures of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and…
The founding, organization, and expansion of a major American university library over more than three centuries is the focus of I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library 1656 - 2022 by David Alan Richards, published by Oak Knoll Press.
University Archives' May 31 Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia auction features autographed material from Ludwig van Beethoven, George Washington, and Houdini's widow.
