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The Library of Congress has acquired the collection of manuscripts, instruments, costumes, video…
Isaac Newton's manuscript on alchemy A Key to Snyders will be offered at Bonhams’ …
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Written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1849, an autograph manuscript version of his For Annie goes under the hammer at Sotheby's on June 26 with an estimate of $400,000 - $600,000.
Rare salt prints from the dawn of photography made by some of the earliest photographic practitioners are among the Bodleian deposit consisting of more than 1,000 items from the 19th and early 20th centuries made by The Wilson Centre for Photography in London.The outstanding collection of…
The Jane Austen Museum in Chawton, England, is looking for help in transcribing the unpublished manuscript biography of Francis Austen, Jane's older brother, which it has put on public display for the first time.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Newberry a grant of $336,288 to digitize more than 2,000 rare books and manuscripts documenting languages spoken or formerly spoken by the Indigenous peoples of North and Central America.
The Drew University Archives and Special Collections has unveiled a new collection of previously unpublished works about Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.
A rare paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone comes for sale at Sworders this month.
Organizers of the David Ruggles Prize, an annual international book collecting prize to encourage and support young collectors of color, are seeking entries for the 2024 competition.
A significant historical document signed by President Grover Cleveland approving Utah's entry as the 45th state into the Union has been sold for $27,188 by RR Auction. Dated January 4, 1896, the one-page document features President Cleveland's directive to the Secretary of State to affix the…
Vivian Maier's photographs only caught the world's attention several years after her death when storage locker sales in Chicago unearthed thousands of her photos and negatives. On May 2, Heritage Auctions will present a selection of her photographs that she printed herself or had printed in her…
Books written by and inscribed to the late former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will go under the hammer next month at Freeman’s | Hindman.The private collection will be sold across a sequence of live and online sales including her distinctive pins and the fine and decorative arts…
