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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open its doors to the public on September 22 as a first-of-…
A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opening tomorrow examines the…
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Graphic Devotions: Late Medieval European Blockbooks will explore the pivotal period 1450 to 1480 in European book history when growing demand for books spurred innovation and experimentation in their production.Featuring 20 bound works plus five prints, the exhibition at The Morgan Library &…
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The New York Historical museum explores the history of literary Ireland in a new exhibition opening tomorrow featuring more than 135 rare books, manuscripts, broad sheets, playbills, drawings, prints, and illustrations. 
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BIBLIO has relaunched the Auction and Book Sales Archive (ABSA) as a fully rebuilt and expanded platform bringing together more than 8,000,000 book and manuscript sales records from the world's leading auction houses, American Book Prices Current heritage data, and more than two decades of BIBLIO's…
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Arthur Sze’s signature project as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry launches this week with a national tour encouraging Americans to engage with poetry written in foreign languages.
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The earliest known testimony of the liturgy followed by the priests and knights of Avis will go under the hammer at ANNO on September 21.These 'warrior monks' played a leading role in the Reconquista and the affirmation of the Kingdom of Portugal, and the uniqu ordinary set out the order of the…
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One of Ireland's most significant medieval manuscripts is now available for the public to view in a major new free exhibition in University College Cork.The 57 vellum leaves known as The Annals of Inisfallen, a single bound volume, consists of a year-by-year chronicle in the Irish language and…
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All seven pages of George Washington’s annotated copy of a draft of the U.S. Constitution go on display for the first time today at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC.The secret printing of a draft of the Constitution was revised in Washington’s original handwriting as he presided over…
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Charles Dickens's writing chalet in Rochester which is currently closed will open briefly as part of the Heritage Open Days scheme on September 12, 13, 19, and 20.
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John Singer Sargent’s family collection including a Laurie Lee archive will go under the hammer at Chorley's on September 15.
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Captain Robert A. Lewis’s mission-used flight logbook from the Enola Gay containing 25 handwritten pages including an eight-page account written aboard the aircraft as the August 1945 Hiroshima mission unfolded leads RR Auction’s September Remarkable Rarities sale.