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The original typescript scroll first draft of Jack Kerouac's On The Road has become the most…
A first edition of Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, an angry letter…
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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.
WESTCHESTER, NY—(Mar. 3, 2014) The most important archive of historical paper to be offered in over a century will be offered en bloc by Eric Caren by private treaty sale. The Caren Collection is comprised of more than 200,000 items that document most every major U.S. and international…
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ 13th March Bibliophile sale includes a fine and diverse selection of bibliophilic material including a copy of Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis (1826) by George Sinclair, botanist and gardener to the 6th Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey from around 1807 until 1825.
A photograph depicting Sir Winston Churchill descending the gangplank of HMS Victory, during a January 1941 tour of the bomb-damaged Portsmo
Two books are believed to have set record auction prices yesterday at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of the Library of a Gentleman. One of these was Jacob Christian Schaeffer’s early work on fungi that sold for £24,180. Overall, the single owner collection of natural history books…
Evelyn Waugh’s annotated proof copy of a special limited edition of his 1932 novel Black Mischief, including an original hand drawn illustration by the author, is to be sold at Bonhams sale of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs in London on 19 March.
