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On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 10am, Doyle New York will auction a rare and important Nebuchadnezzar II Babylonian cuneiform cylinder.
FALLS CHURCH, Va.—A pair of cartes de visite (or photographic “visiting cards”) showing Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad, other Civil War-era cartes de visite of soldiers (including Ulysses S.
The Library of Congress will celebrate the March 27 opening of its exhibition "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" with a day-long program that includes a lecture and a panel discussion on Persian manuscripts and the tradition of manuscript-making in Persian-speaking lands.
SAN FRANCISCO (March 10, 2014)—After a 17-month comprehensive conservation project, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to re-open the Salon Doré from the Hôtel de La Trémoille at the Legion of Honor on April 5, 2014. Developed by Martin Chapman, curator in charge of European…
New York—On Thursday, April 3, coinciding with the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Swann Galleries will auction Astronomy & Science Books from the Library of Martin C. Gutzwiller, the Swiss-American physicist best known for his work
An exquisite illuminated play text from the fifteenth century has been acquired for the nation and allocated to the British Library by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax under the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) Scheme, which is admini
Yesterday’s World Book Day saw Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions sell an extremely rare copy of Christiaan Huygens’ Horologium, 1658, for £54,560 in a sale of Printed Books and Manuscripts, held at their London saleroom.
The World Digital Library (www.wdl.org), a collaborative international project led by the Library of Congress, now includes more than 10,000 manuscripts, maps and atlases, books, prints and photographs, films, sound recordings, and other cultural treasures. The 10,000-item milestone was reached…
Magna Carta, the great charter of rights and liberties, stands at the heart of English and American law and has influenced the legal systems of many other democratic nations.
DALLAS—The only known copy of an almost 7-foot-tall movie poster for the 1947 reissue of Dracula could sell for $40,000 when it crosses the block March 22-23 in Heritage Auctions’ Vintage Movie Poster Signature® Auction in Dallas.
