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The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by John Hancock,…
An album featuring the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and George Harrison's broken guitar string has been…
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The four-day Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art auctions was capped by Frank Frazetta's Dark Kingdom, which sold for $6 million to become the world's most valuable comic or fantasy art.
The Folio Society has published a new limited edition of Beowulf, using Seamus Heaney’s interpretation, presented with the Old English verse.
A 14th century scientific manuscript achieved more than 22 times its estimate when it sold for $89,000 at Bonhams' June Fine Books & Manuscripts auction in New York. The 56-page illustrated manuscript on vellum written in Latin describes the construction and uses for the quadrant, a…
Hindman’s summer American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction saw passionate bidding for early photographs and material surrounding America’s westward expansion.
During routine work on papyrus fragments in the Special Collections at Graz University Library, conservator Theresa Zammit Lupi came across an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century BC. It shows evidence of sewing, indicating that it must have been part of a book in codex form.
Highlights from Jeff Weber Rare Books' latest catalogue, Masterpieces of Fore-edge Painting including:* Bible [Latinus bibliis editionis vulgatae], Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana Plantin, 1618.
A 400-year-old prayer book that once belonged to a priest who helped save the life of King Charles II has gone on public display after being bought for the nation by the National Trust.
Botanical catalogues, lavish celestial atlases and unique pamphlets from the early modern period are among 30,000 titles being conserved and digitally catalogued in an ambitious collaboration to register the 18th-century Fagel Collection which fills a mile of shelving space in the Old…
The eighth annual Bodies From The Library conference at the British Library takes place on June 24 and there's still time to obtain last minute tickets.
Autographed material from the Civil Rights movement, art, business, science, and military feature in University Archives next Rare Autographs, Photographs, Books sale on June 28.
