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Highlights of PBA Galleries' February 5 auction from the Klaus Werner Collection with an emphasis…
The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by John Hancock,…
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A new exhibition at St Bride Foundation in London focuses on the history of decorated papers in books.
Decorated Papers: Three centuries of European printed decorated papers includes more than 200 papers from the early 18th century right up to the present day with examples from Germany, Italy,…
One of the scarcest and most important documents in the history of the United States, the very first printing of the reward poster for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and two other conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, has sold for $166,375 at Nate D Saunders Auctions.…
The history of binding in leather dates back as far as the six century and, withstanding the digitalisation of the publishing industry, is a specialized trade that remains in demand today, writes Alison Strachan, Director at Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe of Westminster.
A new Kickstarter project has been launched to pay tribute to Mark Dimunation who retired as Chief of Rare Books at the Library of Congress at the end of March. It has been created by Ian Kahn, co-founder of Lux Mentis, Booksellers, in collaboration with book artist Timothy Ely.
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world” wrote John Le Carré in his novel The Honourable Schoolboy. Le Carré (real name David Cornwell) is considered to be one the most important writers of the post-war era, with an impressive list of publications in the spy genre. Since the…
The sixth-century Gospels of Augustine of Canterbury are the oldest surviving illustrated Latin Gospels in the world and the oldest non-archaeological artefact of any kind to have survived in England, continuously owned and in use for 1,400 years. The Gospels were shown to HM the King (then Prince…
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) successfully returned to the Park Avenue Armory for its 63rd edition in New York City.
Over 1,500 visitors flowed into the Park Avenue Armory throughout the evening to enjoy offerings from …
Highlights from the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair including:
* Collection documenting Kerouac’s correspondence with a scholar trying to position his work in the American canon
The Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening its historic home on Capitol Hill to the public on November 17, 2023, after a major three-year building renovation that will allow the Folger to share more of its collection and resources than ever before and put its collection of Shakespeare First Folios…
Cricket. A Collection of All the Grand Matches of Cricket played in England within Twenty Years, viz. from 1771 to 1791 by William Epps will be offered by Peter Harrington for £225,000 at Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair next month.
