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The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
Auctions
Sotheby’s is delighted to announce the auction of arguably the most famous and evocative book illustration of the twentieth century: E.H. Shepard’s original ink drawing of Christopher Robin, Piglet and Pooh on the famous ‘poohsticks’ bridge, first published in A.A. Milne’s celebrated The House at…
Auctions
Doyle New York is honored to auction the New York City Bar Association Rare Book Collection. The Collection will be offered in several landmark auctions, with the first sale of over 300 lots taking place on Monday, November 24, 2014 at 10am. Subsequent sales will be held in 2015.
Auctions
On Monday, November 24, 2014 at 10am, Doyle New York will hold an auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps. The sale includes much remarkable material.
Auctions
London—A poem written by Tolkien on a personalised postcard that appears to be unpublished will go under the hammer this month in a sale of Important Books & Works on Paper at Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday 13th November 2014 in London. The poem which begins, “Aredhel went forth in blossom…
Exhibit
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—November 6, 2014—On November 11, the Library Company will open an exhibition documenting African American political and social activism in the North in the decades after Emancipation.  "The Genius of Freedom: Northern Black Activism and Uplift after the Civil War,"…
Exhibit
Powerful narrative, unforgettable characters, illustrations that stir the imagination, and insights that engage the mind and heart—literature for children is forged from the same enduring elements as literature for adults.
Auctions
A diary covering some of the key moments of the Second Boer War (1899-1902) kept by one of the servants of Sir Redvers Buller VC, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces, is to be sold at Bonhams Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts and Photographs Sale on 12 November in London.  It is estimated…
Auctions
Doyle New York held a successful auction of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints on October 27, 2014.
Auctions
London—A collection of rare Edward Gordon Craig works from the property of an American gentleman will be offered in Bloomsbury Auctions’ Important Books and Works on Paper sale on Thursday 13th November at their Mayfair saleroom. The 253 lot collection spanning inscribed books, letters, proofs and…
Recent Publications
To mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the great English charter of rights and liberties that received King John’s seal in 1215, the Library of Congress in association with Thomson Reuters will publish "Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor," the companion book to the Library’s exhibition of the…