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Health and disease in the medieval world and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from…
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Heritage Auctions’ March 28 Historical Manuscripts features more than 600 letters written by Meyer Lansky, who along with Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was instrumental in building the National Crime Syndicate in the US, to his secret Israeli love, Zali de Toledo.
A century after opening its doors for the first time, the Charles Dickens Museum has welcomed Her Majesty The Queen to Dickens’s first family home at 48 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury, London.
A rare signed limited edition of Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist will be available for auction through Nate D. Sanders Auctions on March 27.
National Records of Scotland (NRS) has completed the return of thousands of documents that were stolen from its archives and from other UK institutions by a single individual between 1949 and 1980.NRS recovered around 3,100 items, mainly family, estate and business correspondence, that its…
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen by Malinda Russell
With this year marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Type Punch Matrix will be display the collection of books built by co-founder Rebecca Romney for her latest book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, March 25, 210 lots of Early Printing, Americana, Exploration & Selections from the Inventory of Periodyssey.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is copy of the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis which was bought by the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology in Texas at the Christie's auction earlier this year of astronomer
A selection of works offered by Oxfam performed well at Bonhams' Fine Books and Manuscripts sale with the first complete Bible in Chinese translated by John Lassar and Joshua Marshman, published serially in Serampore, starting in 1817, going for £56,280 against an estimate of £600-£800.
The Royal Academy of Arts in London is presenting a comprehensive survey of politician, author, and artist Victor Hugo’s rarely seen works on paper.Featuring around 70 artworks from important European collections, Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo follows Hugo’s preoccupation with…
