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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Alexandra E. LaGrand, winner of the 2025…
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' auction include:Ten Years Ago: The Nazis Burned These Books (U.S…
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Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, October 7, a Fine Fall Miscellany, in 213 lots.ALDE sells the Bibliothèque Peter Obergfell II – Précieux Livres sur la Montagne on Wednesday, October 8, in 247 lots.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is the logbook belonging to Sergeant Sidney 'Clot' Baxter of 222 Squadron during the Battle of Britain during 1940 in which he was killed in action.The logbook begins on March 9, 1939, and the final entry is September 14, 1940, when he died after serving more than…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the redesign of the Nolen Study Room in the Thomas J. Watson Library.
A major exhibition of works by William Blake is running at the Yale Center for British Art exploring the imaginative visual art and poetry held by the museum.
A rare holograph fragment from Captain James Cook’s logbook from his second voyage to the South Pacific comes to auction later this month at Bonhams with an estimate of $80,000–$120,000.
100 books, manuscripts, and photographs from the Royal Society of Medicine library lead the Christie’s Valuable Books, Manuscripts and Photographs sale later this year with a total estimate of £2.17m-£3.20m.Proceeds from the auction on December 10 will be directly invested into the RSM including…
Letters written by Ludwig van Beethoven, Albert Einstein, James A. Garfield, and René Magritte lead RR Auction's October Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amanda Zhao, winner of the 2024 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.Where are you from / where do you live? I live in San Diego, California, but I’m currently attending Georgetown University in Washington, DC.What do you study at…
Ursula K Le Guin began writing each new story by drawing a map and from October 10 The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K Le Guin will present a selection of these images by her including many which have never been exhibited previously.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Stephen GreenblattThe literary life and times of homosexual atheist Christopher Marlowe, William…
