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To mark the 2024 centennial of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York will open a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). Widely recognized as an authority on illuminated manuscripts and…
RR Auction's November Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction features a special section dedicated to JFK's presidency and early career, including his diary, an original window from the Texas School Book Depository, and a section of the picket fence from the 'grassy knoll'.
A curated collection of 17th and 18th century manuscripts documenting life in colonial New England will be featured at Doyle Auction’s November 7 sale of rare books, autographs, and maps.
The Jill Newhouse Gallery in New York will present the first exhibition in the United States dedicated to the watercolors of French artist and writer George Sand, November 8 – 30.
Rare book dealer Peter Harrington’s cataloguing team credit a voice from beyond the grave in providing the clue to the recipient of a presentation copy of one of the rarities of English literature, a first edition, first impression of W.B. Yeats’s first book Mosada (1886). It is believed that…
The work of Max Beerbohm, the English artist, writer, and dandy noted for his satirical celebrity caricatures, is now on display in a new exhibition at The New York Public Library’s 42nd Street building.
Freeman’s November 16 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.
Two landscapes by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) lead Bonhams' Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art on November 14 at New Bond Street, London. Untitled (West Bengal Landscape) and Untitled (Dark landscape with cliffs and tree), are both individually estimated…
A scarce astronomy treatise, written by a Welshman before Galileo was born, has been sold to a private international buyer after an intense bidding war.The first edition of The Castle of Knowledge by Robert Recorde (first edition, London: Reginalde Wolfe, 1556) was discovered among a box of…
Relics from the collection of sleight-of-hand magician, actor, and author, Ricky Jay went for nearly $518,000 at Potter & Potter's Ricky Jay Collection Part II Sale.
