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Photographs

Charles Dickens' carte de visite is among those going on display

Calling Cards of Darwin, Paxton, and Other Gardening Greats Go on Display for First Time

Photographer Elizabeth Menzies Focus of New Exhibition at Princeton University

David Bailey's Live Aid Photographs to Auction

Book People

Library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Director Cassidy Lent on the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Library

Public Asked to Search for Missing Byron, Milton, and Hogarth Blue Plaques

David Ruggles Prize Winner Vera Jiā Xī Mancini on collecting 'Pride and Prejudice'

Auctions

Typed letter in German signed by Albert Einstein

Letters by Robert E. Lee, Einstein, Emerson, and U.S. Presidents to Auction

American and English Literature

Dæmons and a Blue-Green Abelard

Visual Art

C. W. Parker: The Jumping Horse "Carry-Us-All"

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Fairground Posters

Deadpool: Rob Liefeld’s Original Art for New Mutants No. 98 Cover Set at $7.5m

Golden Age Comics Dominate Hake’s $2.9M Pop Culture Auction

Book Arts

An inside page of The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy

Incline Press Launch New Letterpress Edition of 'The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy'

New Publication Examines the History of Book Curses

A New Era for the Charleston Library Society, One of the Oldest Libraries in the US

Rare Books

A typed insert from The Jungle Book proofs with Kipling’s late corrections

Kipling’s 'The Jungle Book' Proofs and Wilkie Collins’ Travelling Desk Acquired by Cambridge University Library

Polydore Vergil’s 'Anglica Historia': Rare Book of the Week

Gutenberg Bible Leaf: Rare Book of the Week

Exhibitions

Photograph of Martha, Amalia and Sigmund Freud on holiday at Altaussee, Austria. 1905. Photographer unknown.

Freud's Love Letters Featured in New Exhibition About the Women in His Life

Greenwich Village Counterculture Chronicled at New York Public Library

New Exhibition Pays Tribute to Leading Librarian Belle da Costa Greene

Americana

Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan (right) and Brian Joyner, acting superintendent of Rock Creek Park (left), stand in front of the National Archives Building Historic Landmark plaque.

National Archives Building Receives Historic Landmark Designation and Plaque

Counterculture and the 1960s: Five Rare Books for Collectors

PulpFest 2024 Returns to Pittsburgh: Full Details

Maps

Amy Drevenstedt, The Flight of Charles A Lindbergh from New York to Paris, in His Mono-plane “The Spirit of St. Louis” on May 20-21, map, lithographed in four colors, 1927. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500.

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Maps

Early Maps, Photographs and Artists’ Books Chart 500 years of the Arctic

Early Baseball Sheet Music, Arrowsmith’s Maps, JFK Presentation Copy: Auction Preview

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale