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The Morgan Library & Museum has received a $2.5m grant from the Lilly Endowment's Religion and…
Claire White has been appointed as the Shaetlan Scriever and takes up a year-long residency with…
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George Washington's emergence from young surveyor to army commander and President is charted in 23 signed letters in Heritage Auctions' John H. Freund Americana Collection sale on June 19.Among them is a land survey completed when Washington was 19, a 1776 account of the seizure of Dorchester…
Sir Alec Guinness’s annotated copy of Hamlet, Virginia Woolf's copy of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, and Beethoven's autograph sketches for the overture Die Weihe des Hauses will go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.
A signed 1885 contract between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show has sold for $168,213 at RR Auction’s The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz.The one-page agreement signed June 6, 1885, formalized Sitting Bull’s appearance in the ‘Buffalo Bill Wild West Show’ for a four-…
The New York Public Library has announced the acquisition of the professional and personal archive of journalist and bestselling author Gay Talese.
Catawiki has announced the upcoming auction of a copy of the 1543 first edition of Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, the foundational work of modern anatomy and Renaissance printing, offered with no reserve price.
The British Museum has released the first details of what it describes as "its exhibition of the century" when the Bayeux Tapestry will open to the public in London on September 10 through July 11, 2027.
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library has announced the launch of The Hispanic Society Poetry Center which will also house the archive of Chilean poet David Rosenmann Taub (1927-2023). Poet and scholar Ezequiel Zaidenwerg has been appointed as inaugural Head of the Poetry Center, the first…
Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea saw sales of more than £5m with over 4,000 visitors through the doors to browse 100 stands, many relating to this year's theme of the fair 'Revolution' to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The British Library will open a new exhibition exploring the life and work of the bestselling novelist of all time Agatha Christie later this year.
One of the 1,500 copies of the first edition, first impression of The Hobbit in an unrestored and bright dust jacket was the highest seller at Heritage Auctions' David Aronovitz Collection of Important Science Fiction and Fantasy, Part I Rare Books sale making $450,000.
