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The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale a letter from Thomas Jefferson to…
The Gaffurio Codex by composer and kapellmeister of Milan Cathedral Franchino Gaffurio headlines Il…
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Christie’s' forthcoming June 13-27 Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana online sale features a selection of color-plate books, manuscripts, early printed material, and literary classics.Highlights include: *
Mountains and plains and adventure: William & May Morris and Iceland has opened at their Kelmscott Manor country home in Oxfordshire, coinciding with the centenary of May Morris’s first trip to Iceland.
Sotheby’s has announced the auction of the Shem Tov Bible, one of the most significant medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, with an estimate of $5m-$7m.Written by the scholar Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312 in Soria, Castile, the Shem Tov Bible is a masterpiece of scribal art from the Golden…
An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts depicting different places, peoples, and customs around the world from the perspective of medieval Europeans opens at The J. Paul Getty Museum on June 11.
Bayliss Rare Books is offering The Beckham Collection, a unique D-Day collection ahead of the 80th anniversary on June 6.
The sale of 19th and 20th century photographs at Chiswick Auctions on June 6 includes a group of 14 images from the influential series published by The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London from 1867-78.
Franz Kafka's deep insecurity about his work is the focus of a letter coming to Sotheby's in which he describes his problems with writer's block.
A rare handwritten letter by Napoleon Bonaparte playfully criticizing his tutor's work is among 800 lots at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale ending June 12.
The first Hugo ever awarded and props from the 1953 movie War of the Worlds are among items celebrating the relationships between technology, literature, and film in the 20th Century at the latest Freeman’s | Hindman auction.
To mark the 2024 presidential election, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is presenting Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection, an exhibition featuring historic photographic portraits of 11 men who held the nation’s highest…
