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A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early…
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with…
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Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling is running at The Morgan Library & Museum focusing on the rich history of storytelling through 140 literary works and other objects from its own collection alongside loans.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association has expanded its national student book collecting competition to make it open to all young book collectors aged between 18-35.
A rare group of early aviation glass lantern slides documenting the pioneering long distance flights of Italian pilot Carlo Francesco 'Francis' Lombardi will go under the hammer at Roseberys London on March 11. The collection comprises approximately 200 gelatin silver glass slides, accompanied…
The Morgan Library & Museum has announced the appointment of Dr. Joshua O’Driscoll as Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.O’Driscoll joined the Morgan as Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in 2015 and was promoted to…
A handwritten letter written by Queen Elizabeth II as a child is estimated to sell for £4,000 when it appears at Hansons tomorrow.The one-page note is addressed to the head housemaid at Royal Lodge in Windsor Beatrice Stillman, and includes doodles of dogs, horses and young children. Written while…
The J. Paul Getty Museum’s The Egyptian Book of the Dead exhibition will return next month to showcase the Getty collection of ancient Egyptian manuscripts inscribed with spells and illustrated scenes from the Book of the Dead which were intended to guide souls through the afterlife.
Senate House Library will be the official Charity Partner for Firsts London 2026.Senate House Library will be curating a stand at Firsts that showcases its various collections charting social and political transformation. This year's theme of Firsts London which runs May 14-17 at the Saatchi…
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) will return to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from April 30 through May 3, 2026.More than 170 exhibitors from around the world, including new participants Black Swan Books, Marshall Kibbey Rare Books, Midway Rare Books, Reagan’…
Shakespeare specialist Professor Emma Smith from the University of Oxford will give the 2026 Stevenson Lecture tomorrow at Senate House in London on the subject Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books.
An 1837 English translation of Santa Anna's second-in-command's account of his conduct in the Texas Revolution will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' Februarty 26 Historical Manuscripts & Texana sale.
