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A previously-unseen partial manuscript for classic French movie À Bout de Souffle will go under the hammer at Sotheby's this summer with an estimate of €400,000 – €600,000.
The British Library has confirmed a £1.1 billion new development of the Library’s St Pancras site which will create new public spaces for the British Library alongside new, globally significant capacity for commercial science, innovation and knowledge industry. The development will create an…
The Huntington Library has acquired the rare 15th century devotional print Christ on the Mount of Olives, reuniting it with the institution’s Gutenberg Bible.
The Bodleian Libraries in Oxford is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Weston Library, the home of its outstanding special collections, by unveiling a manuscript designated a 'national treasure' which has now been saved for the nation.
Is a rare book always greater than the sum of its parts? Is it a desecration to break up a copy of the world’s greatest book? Or is it democratising the book by making its historic pages more accessible to many more people than just one wealthy owner?
Highlights of Swann Galleries' auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana on March 20 include: * Advance press copy of Martin Luther King Jr's Nobel Peace Prize lecture on December 11, 1964, in which he addresses not only the struggle against racial injustice, but also poverty and…
A prayer book belonging to Dr Crippen will go under the hammer at Richard Winterton Auctioneers on March 24.American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged in 1910 after the disappearance of his wife Cora, a music hall…
At Freeman's | Hindman in Chicago on Tuesday, March 18, The Collected Library, in 364 lots. A group of 162 Limited Editions Club publications from the collection of former Ford CEO Donald Petersen rates the top estimate at $3,000–5,000. A run of Paxton's Magazine of Botany (1834–1849) is estimated…
This week's Rare Book of the Week is this Book of Hours from the third quarter of the 15th century, Flanders, illustrated by Willem Vrelant with Latin text in brown and red ink, 15 miniatures in border framing, decorative initials, and a green-blue velvet binding with openwork silver clasps, and…
The Book Collector literary journal has appointed David Pearson as its new editor, following the death of James Fleming in December last year.
