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Arts Over Borders has launched a new project identifying and celebrating the concentration of…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Viktoria Malik of PY Rare Books in London…
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Highlights from Bonhams' Deeds Not Words: Women's Suffrage Part II online auction which runs until March 12 includes:* Votes for Catharine, Susan and Me by Kathleen Ainslie
Heritage Auctions' Historical Manuscripts & Texana sale was led by an autograph letter signed by General George Armstrong Custer which went for $550,000.
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a major group of photographs by the 20th century American photographer Irving Penn. via a donation from The Irving Penn Foundation.
Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling is running at The Morgan Library & Museum focusing on the rich history of storytelling through 140 literary works and other objects from its own collection alongside loans.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association has expanded its national student book collecting competition to make it open to all young book collectors aged between 18-35.
Our monthly look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.
A rare group of early aviation glass lantern slides documenting the pioneering long distance flights of Italian pilot Carlo Francesco 'Francis' Lombardi will go under the hammer at Roseberys London on March 11. The collection comprises approximately 200 gelatin silver glass slides, accompanied…
The Morgan Library & Museum has announced the appointment of Dr. Joshua O’Driscoll as Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.O’Driscoll joined the Morgan as Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in 2015 and was promoted to…
Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Literature of Legerdemain auction featuring the collection of magic bibliographer Stephen Forrester include:* Kellar in His Latest Mystery. Self DecapitationStone lithograph shows Kellar (Heinrich Keller, 1849 - 1922) seated in a chair, his disembodied…
A handwritten letter written by Queen Elizabeth II as a child is estimated to sell for £4,000 when it appears at Hansons tomorrow.The one-page note is addressed to the head housemaid at Royal Lodge in Windsor Beatrice Stillman, and includes doodles of dogs, horses and young children. Written while…
