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Visual Art

The young Queen Elizabeth's letter with doodles

Unseen Doodles by Queen Elizabeth II to Auction

Original Joe Shuster Action Comics Cover Art and Frank Frazetta Artwork to Auction

Rediscovered Original 'The Jungle Book' Illustrations to Auction

Americana

The Custer letter

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Mysterious George Washington Historical Document Surfaces for Presidents Day

Book People

Stock photo of old books

ABA National Book Collecting Prize 2026

Charlotte Brontë, Bennett Cerf, and Henry D. Thoreau Letters: February Books Roundup

Joshua O’Driscoll Appointed Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at The Morgan

Exhibitions

Papyrus of Pasherashakhet (detail), Egyptian, about 375–275 BCE, ink on papyrus

Getty’s Egyptian Book of the Dead Exhibition Returns

Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition

New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Rare Books

The Discovery of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot

Legerdemain: Five Rare Books for Collectors

First Book Printed in the Republic of Texas Heads Texana Auction

Gil Evans’s Jazz Archive Acquired by Library of Congress

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Photographs

Irving Penn's Cuzco Man, Woman, and Crying Infant, negative 1948, print 1989. Platinum-palladium print.

Getty Acquires Photographer Irving Penn’s 'Cuzco' Work

Unseen Early Italian Aviation Photography to Auction

Karsh's Apollo 11, Cabinet Cards, and 'The People of India': The Week in Rare Books

Auctions

American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables and the Best Mode of Making Puff Pastes, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Custards, and Preserves...Together with the rules of Carving at Dinner parties. Exemplified With Cuts by Amelia Simmons (Woodstock, A. Colton, 1831)

Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale

£279,800 Death Bed Photo Tops Oscar Wilde Sale

Official Invitations From 1896 Athens Olympics to Auction