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One of the world’s most significant Hindu scriptures has left the University of Oxford's Bodleian…
A three-page typed letter signed by Virginia Woolf and a handwritten draft manuscript page by…
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National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, will hold a special film, photography and art-related auction on June 27th that features the first session of the auction gallery’s art, film and photography-themed collections along with many select book and ephemera lots.
Eric Carle, internationally known for his beautiful and highly original tissue paper collages, employs bright colors and bold shapes to create images that are appealing and direct. The Carle’s new exhibition in the West Gallery, Eric Carle Prints and Papers, provides a rare opportunity to view some…
HYDE PARK, NY. On Saturday, June 19, 2010, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host its seventh annual Roosevelt Reading Festival. New Deal scholar and Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University Alan Brinkley will deliver the…
New York -- On Thursday, June 17 Swann Galleries will conduct a two-part auction of Maps & Atlases, Books with Plates, Ephemera; and 19th & 20th Century Literature, Art & Illustrated Books, and Decorative Graphics.The sale begins with a selection of atlases, which features a complete…
Picture by Pakistan’s ‘Picasso’ Who Illustrated Camus Novel, in Bonhams Middle East & South Asian Art Sale
A painting by Sadequain (Pakistan, 1937-1987) titled ‘Three sitting figures’, is estimated to sell for£23,000-28,000 at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern & South Asian…
Trying to find information on printed antique maps can be frustrating. Collectors like reference works to list maps of a particular region and parts of that region in publication date order. Such a work exists for antique maps of North America ... but it only goes up to the year 1700. What…
David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and
managing director of The Carlyle Group, announced today his donation of $5
million ($1 million per year for the next five years) to support the Library of
Congress’s National Book Festival, which this year is celebrating its 10th
anniversary, “A Decade of…
The Archives and Special Collections Library of Vassar College
Libraries has become an official repository of the publications of Thornwillow
Press.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY— The Archives and Special Collections Library of Vassar
College Libraries has become an official repository of the publications of…
Opening on 30 April 2010, Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art offers a rare chance to see an unrivalled collection of cartographic masterpieces on paper, wood, vellum, silver, silk and marble, including atlases, maps, globes and tapestries that were intended for display side-by-side with…
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois has a limited number of seats available to non-degree/community credit students in the following on-campus rare book and special collections courses during the summer 2010 semester. LIS590PM - Paper in the…
