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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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Chawton House begins its 2023 visitor season and 20th anniversary year with two exhibitions.
Fine artist book producer Arion Press has released a curated selection of poems and stories by Edgar Allan Poe in an edition equal to the 19th-century master of the macabre.
RR Auction's March Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features 900+ lots, highlighted by a royalty section including a royal warrant signed by King James VI to discharge Sir Walter Raleigh from the Tower of London. The historic one-page document is dated March 19, 1615. The King's warrant was…
For the first time in 500 years two prayer books belonging to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn have been reunited and displayed together at Hever Castle in Kent, England.
Christie’s is inviting foodies and collectors to explore four centuries of gastronomy and its history through a selection of books from the library of Baron Pierre de Crombrugghe.
It has been 20 years since BIBLIO was founded in Asheville, NC. Its mission was to give antiquarian and used bookstores the tools needed to survive and grow in a digital world. Since then, BIBLIO has grown to become a major independent marketplace, offering booksellers a global reach to market and…
Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books is returning to TEFAF Maastricht in 2023 (9-19 March) with a display of museum-quality manuscripts, miniatures, and early printed books from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This year’s highlights are a Franciscan devotional book shining with gold, a narrative…
A Stephen Hawking autograph has sold for $18,813, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
Accompanied by a transmittal letter signed by his wife, Jane Hawking, dated October 15, 1983, it reads in part: "Thank you for your courteous letter of 29 September requesting my husband's autograph. After many…
The New-York Historical Society, the city’s first museum, presents Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). Walker’s series of 15 prints responds to the two-volume anthology Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion first published in 1866.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s famous invention, the telephone. While scientific history is mired in controversy over who actually devised the first electronic speech-transmitting device, it was Bell who received the US patent for the telephone, on March 7, 1876.…
