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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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RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Presidents sale ontinues the company’s 50th anniversary year with a selection of presidential manuscripts and historic documents.
New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his business for more than half a century.Richard, who also ran an office in Lisbon, studied for a Masters in Latin American History at Indiana University before becoming a specialist in Portuguese, Brazilian…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6.4 million.Created in Vienna in 1415, the High Holiday prayer book reflects the achievements of Ashkenazi manuscript production. Written in an elegant Hebrew script, the Mahzor preserves the liturgy…
Heritage Auctions in collaboration with SemperFi Comics has completed one of the largest private comic transactions by selling a Batman No. 1 for $6 million alongside a Superman No. 1 for $7 million. The results in its recent Comics and Comic Art auction follow the record-breaking $9.12m sale…
The first British edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the 'Wicked Bible' will be among the hundreds of printed mistakes and errata lists on view in a new exhibition opening at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library opening March 30.
The private archive of explorer Captain Louis Palander af Vega will go under the hammer next month at Stockholms Auktionsverk.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amalia V. of New York City who was an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for woman collectors aged 30 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?I’m originally from Philadelphia, but I’ve lived in NYC…
Highlights of Potter & Potter's Photography, Americana & Historical Memorabilia auction on February 5 include: A collection of American railroad and steamer passes, 1856 – 1936
The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-year project aiming to transform how Indigenous histories are preserved, accessed, and represented, and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. The Newberry holds one of the largest print…
Highlights of PBA Galleries' February 5 auction from the Klaus Werner Collection with an emphasis on 18th and 19th century voyages across the Pacific Ocean include:* Voyage Autour du Monde sur la Frégate La Vénus, Pendant les Années 1836-1839 by Abel Aubert Du Petit-Thouars
