Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Alexandra E. LaGrand, winner of the 2025…
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An exhibition exploring the evolution of Spanish high fashion at the peak of Spain’s imperial power at The Hispanic Society Museum & Library opens next month in New York.Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550–1700 runs November 6 through March 22, 2026, curated by art historian Dr.…
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Cover Stories by Jamie Kamph
Another fine volume from Oak Knoll Press, with Kamph looking at over 100 bookbindings and their many and varied designs and techniques, explaining each one's…
The use of maps by governments as confidential tools of control is at the centre of a new exhibition at the British Library in London which also looks at mapping in the Where’s Waldo? books and world-building games like Minecraft. Running through January 18, 2026, Secret Maps begins by…
The Raab Collection has announced the discovery of perhaps the earliest known written examples of modern musical notations from Western Europe on a vellum manuscript leaf from a Latin Sacramentary.None earlier are known to exist in any private collection or to have reached the public market. The…
The incunable erotic novel De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia by Pope Pius II will go under the hammer this weekend at Addison & Sarova Auctioneers.
Highlights from the latest fishing catalogue Tight Lines and Happy Landings from Old Mill Bookshop by James Cummins Bookseller include:Atlantic Salmon Flies & Fishing by Joseph D.Bates, Jr
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with a visit to Portugal and an interview with Francisco Brito, proprietor of Cólofon Livros in Guimarães.How did you get started in rare books?
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
Going under the hammer later this week at Portuguese auction house ANNO is the uncensored first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire.
Highlights of Potter & Potter's The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part IV auction, the fourth and final sale from the Dawes collection, include: Edwin Dawes' collection of booklets and lecture notesApproximately 100 thin magic booklets and two boxes of lecture notes, spanning the 20th…
