A Christmassy selection for this week's Rare Book of the Week, a Bible (both Old and New Testaments…
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Salisbury Cathedral has received an early Christmas present from Friends of the Nations’ Libraries…
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RR Auction’s monthly Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale runs through October 16 with more than 800 lots of signed books, autograph letters, and historically significant documents from the 16th century to the present day. Highlights include:
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Nubia Lateefa who is the owner and curator of The People's Porch, a mobile library archive of historic Black memorabilia.
The NYPL has acquired the archive of Oliver Sacks which showcases the life and career of the author and perhaps most important medical humanist of the 20th century.
The Bloomsbury group circle of writers, intellectuals, and artists is the focus of new collaboration between Sotheby's and Charleston, the creatives' rural retreat in Sussex.Sotheby’s will host Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston, a private selling and loan exhibition on view November…
At Bonhams online on Tuesday, October 8, 139 lots of Posters, including two by Toulouse-Lautrec which share the top estimate at €30,000–40,000: the 1892 Reine de Joie, and the 1895 poster The Chap Book, for an Irish bar in the Rue Royale. Alphonse Mucha's Job is expected to sell for €16,000–18,000.
This week's entry is a King Ottokar’s Sceptre cover from one of the most popular of Belgian artist Georges Rémi's Adventures of Tintin series which comes up for sale at Heritage Auctions' October 12-13 sale.It is the cover of the February 16, 1939 issue of Le Petit Vingtième, the Belgian newspaper…
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is celebrating a decade since one of Manchester’s most important historic cultural venues was saved from dereliction with a new exhibition.Running until June 2025, The story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House from dereliction to delight explores the building’s restoration and…
Going under the hammer later this month will be the first tranche of The Christine Farrell Complete DC Collection, an auction featuring nearly 500 comic books, including 1940’s Double Action Comics No. 2, of which only seven copies have survived.
The new exhibition of artists’ books at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) on Bainbridge Island, WA, focuses on the limitations and injustices associated with borders and identity documents.
Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has received a $3.1m donation to endow a full-time curatorial chair for the School’s teaching collection and exhibitions program. It represents the largest single gift in Rare Book School’s 41-year history.
