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Salisbury Cathedral has received an early Christmas present from Friends of the Nations’ Libraries…
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments which dates to the Late Roman-Byzantine…
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The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair has announced its special events and talks programs at this year’s fair, a three-day event celebrating the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s 75th anniversary.
A signed collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's four most celebrated works, comprising The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has sold for $61,599 at RR Auction's recent Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.Other highlights included:
University Archives' Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books features more than 485 lots including a set of presidential signatures from George Washington to Barack Obama, all signed as President, from 1789 to 2010.
A presentation first edition of John Osborne’s seminal play Look Back in Anger will go under the hammer at Chiswick Auctions next month, including an original draft page for the beginning of Act 1.The lot is expected to bring £3,000 - £4,000 as part of the November 28 sale of Books and Works on…
Freeman’s | Hindman has announced the upcoming auction Design for Living: A Private Collection of Georg Jensen Silver, taking place on December 11 in New York City.This extraordinary single-owner collection brings together rare examples of Georg Jensen’s silver hollowware representing the very…
Running online until October 28, Sotheby’s Paris is presenting rare books and manuscripts from the library of the late Pierre Bergé, bibliophile, art collector, patron and aesthete.
This year's prestigious Sandars Readership in Bibliography lectures will be given by Timothy Young, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts for the Yale Center for British Art, on the theme of 'Resistance to Bibliography'.The Sandars Lectures will be hybrid, offered in person at Robinson College,…
This week's choice was owned by Tywin Lannister (played by Charles Dance) in the television series Game of Thrones.The brown leather-bound Histories of the Greater and Lesser Houses prop appeared in episode six of season two of the HBO adaption of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire…
Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Illustrated Cairo Genizah by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee
Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and the Antiquarian Book School Foundation have announced that Lorne Bair has been elected as the new President of the Board of ABSF.
