Rare Books, Book Collection, Manuscripts and Old Maps

Captain Maxwell H. Coote, Winston Churchill, Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Ronald Storrs in British Cemetery, Jerusalem, 1921

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

The inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments to Auction

Leaf from Valentina Tereshkova's ground practice journal

Early Hemingway, Mars Globe, Tereshkova Notebook: Auction Preview

A signed collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's four most celebrated works

Tolkien Four Volume Signed Set Sold For $61,599 at RR Auction

Banditti of the Prairies and His Dark Materials

Dæmons and a Blue-Green Abelard

From the Pages of Fine Books & Collections

This map was used in the Union Depot train station in El Paso, Texas, and has signatures and unit patches from soldiers who passed through. It’s now on view at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

World War II Maps of Service and Sacrifice

On the day after Christmas, 1944, ball turret gunner Kenje Ogata found himself in the...

Tim Youd retyping Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, in May 2024.

Tim Youd's Quest to Read Closely by Retyping 100 Novels

Artist Tim Youd’s intention to become a better reader goes to extremes, and typewriters...

Historian Emily Cockayne’s cover embroideries that she is making for a book quilt include Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work.

Stories in Stitchery as a Reading List Becomes a Quilt

When most of us finish a book we’ve enjoyed, we might make a note in a journal, post...

Fine Books News

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

A little-known Dr Seuss creation from the author's Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy will go under the hammer at Potter & Potter on

Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia macrocosmica after conservation

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia macrocosmica, an outstanding example of Dutch cartography, will go on show to the public for the…

Letters of Gold Rush miner Warren H. Porter, with the report of his fatal shooting by an outlaw, 17 items, 1850-55. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.

Gold Rush Letters and Diaries Lead Swann's Americana Auction

The letter from Ernie Wise to Morecambe (left) and from comedian Ronnie Barker (right)

Comedian Eric Morecambe's Joke Books, Writing Desk, and Letters to Auction

Phoebe Anna Traquair illumination for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 38

Traquair Illuminated Leaves, Amulet Prayer Roll, Twain Photograph, Mormon Missionary Diary: Auction Preview

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

The Federalist Essays Sold for $203,200

Burt Bacharach Archive Acquired by Library of Congress

Thomas Jefferson 1790 Letter as First Secretary of State Sells for $41,590

Book Curses, Literary Tourism, and Academic Spies: November Books Roundup

Johnny Rotten Handwritten Lyrics and Beatles Ephemera to Auction

Desert Wind Rare Books' Christian Fassbender on the Occult Book Market, CABS, and Collecting King Arthur

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments to Auction

Campaign Hope to Return 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral

Beethoven String Quartet Leads Musical Manuscripts Sale at Christie's

Photos of Truman Capote and Joan Didion in Major Irving Penn Retrospective

Map Dealer

Curtis Wright Maps

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Vintage Paperbacks, First Editions & Collectible Literature including SciFi, (more)

Photographs

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

Photos of Truman Capote and Joan Didion in Major Irving Penn Retrospective

'Ansel Adams: A Legacy' Photographs Sold for $4.6m

Rare Books

Music sketch of Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

Burt Bacharach Archive Acquired by Library of Congress

Caxton Chaucer Leaf: Rare Book of the Week

Imaginary Books To Go On Show at Grolier Club

Visual Art

Teamwork Builds Ships Color lithograph poster by William Dodge Stevens

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

Earliest Engravings by William Blake Uncovered Using New Scanning Technology

Leslie Ragan Calendar Art for the New York Central Railway to Auction

Exhibitions

Kings Library tower in the British Library

16th Century Gardening Manual, Secret War Maps, and Football Fanzines in British Library's 2025 Exhibitions

David King’s Small Press Publications and Zines Celebrated in New Exhibition

Bodleian Libraries’ Kafka Archive Debuts in the US

Americana

Gold Rush Letters and Diaries Lead Swann's Americana Auction

'Over the Rainbow' Song Contract and Mervyn LeRoy's Script for 'The Wizard of Oz' to Auction

Gordon Lightfoot Set Lists and Writing Desks to Auction

Maps

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Andreas Bureus' Rare Map of Nordic Countries Goes Under the Hammer

Book Arts

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Auctions

Comedian Eric Morecambe's Joke Books, Writing Desk, and Letters to Auction

Traquair Illuminated Leaves, Amulet Prayer Roll, Twain Photograph, Mormon Missionary Diary: Auction Preview

The Federalist Essays Sold for $203,200

Book People

Book Curses, Literary Tourism, and Academic Spies: November Books Roundup

Desert Wind Rare Books' Christian Fassbender on the Occult Book Market, CABS, and Collecting King Arthur

Campaign Hope to Return 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments to Auction

Early Hemingway, Mars Globe, Tereshkova Notebook: Auction Preview

Tolkien Four Volume Signed Set Sold For $61,599 at RR Auction

Dæmons and a Blue-Green Abelard

World War II Maps of Service and Sacrifice

Tim Youd's Quest to Read Closely by Retyping 100 Novels

Stories in Stitchery as a Reading List Becomes a Quilt

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