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Sotheby's will run the second installment of its Reason and Revolution auction devoted to the…
Three days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion collapsed in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy…
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Divine Inspiration: The Legacy of the St. Francis Missal is now on view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore focusing on a 12th-century missal believed by Franciscans to be a relic of touch of St. Francis of Assisi. The missal is rarely displayed due to its fragility, and is accompanied by…
Dave Brubeck's handwritten manuscripts, sketches, and books from his home library including his personal Bible are going under the hammer in Julian’s Auctions' online-only Dave Brubeck Collection sale running through September 17.
An archive chronicling more than six decades of life in Palestine has been saved from the risk of destruction and preserved at the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter for study, teaching and research.The archive, comprising thousands of pages from diaries, personal documents and digital records,…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Adélaïde Carton of Le Feu Follet – Edition-Originale in Paris, France:How did you get started in rare books?
Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Step Right Up: Circus and Sideshow Memorabilia sale on September 3 include:* With the Circus: A Route Book of Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. Seasons of 1895 and 1896 by Alf. T. RinglingOriginal yellow-orange wrappers, printed in black. Illustrated…
The Wordsworth Trust, which operates Wordsworth Grasmere and Dove Cottage, has acquired three letters written by William Wordsworth.
The Sunderland Collection of world maps has announced the creation of Ex Carta, a sister collection dedicated to fictional and world-building cartography that spans more than 700 years across over 160 maps from 1506 to the present day.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Ben Roylance, proprietor of Apport Used Books in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.How did you get started in rare books?
The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will return to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s Back Bay, running November 6-8, 2026.Sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the three-day event will welcome 110…
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, has acquired a portrait miniature of Jane Austen’s close friend and mentor Mrs Anne Lefroy.
