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Highlights from Daniel Crouch Rare Books selection of beautifully engraved 18th century maps that chart the design and purpose of some of London’s most iconic gardens offered at this year's Firsts London (May 15–18) include:
Symbols and Signs: Decoding Medieval Manuscripts at the The J. Paul Getty Museum will showcase how medieval scribes and artists used textual and visual strategies to captivate readers and engage them in deciphering enigmatic codes.
The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced that for the first time researchers have found the title and author inside of a sealed scroll from Herculaneum.
Books in Bloom is this year's theme for Firsts London, the UK's leading international rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in London's Chelsea running May 15 - 18 May. Held only a few days before the famous Chelsea Flower Show begins around the corner, the fair will celebrate all things…
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will mark the 300th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1726 Ascension Day cantata Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein (BWV 128) with a performance at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre on May 7.
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on in the coming weeks:
Bernard Shapero has been appointed as the new president of the The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) and will represent the association as its new President for the next two years.
The Kentuckian in New-York by William Alexander Caruthers is this week's Rare Book of the Week, a rare early representation of enslaved Muslims in America offered by Peter Harrington at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair which ends today (May 5).
Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery is a new exhibition at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Delaware inspired by a 19th century essay by free Black journalist and educator William J. Wilson.
Nearly 200 lots telling the writing story of Barbara Taylor Bradford go under the hammer at Doyle on May 7 including her favourite typewriter, paintings of her dogs, jewelry and rare first editions of her own works.
