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Highlights from the private library of revered British actor Eric Idle, founding member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, will be on offer at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) by johnson rare books & archives.
Oxford University Press (OUP) has been commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury to produce the Coronation Bible to be used by His Majesty King Charles III at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023. The Coronation Bible will play a significant role in the ceremony, with the King set to place his hand…
Earlier this year, The Raab Collection offered for sale a newly discovered, unpublished George Washington letter. Found in a small private collection in rural West Virginia, the 1787 letter was addressed to Israel Shreve (1739-1799), a retired colonel who had served with him at Valley Forge.
Sixty years ago this month, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a Birmingham, Alabama jail cell, without a light or even a mattress on the bedsprings, and penned his Letter from Birmingham Jail, the most important written statement of the civil rights movement.
Posters and handbills from the David Swartz Concert Poster Collection featuring the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and Ray Charles go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' May 11 Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters Auction.
Childhood drawings by the Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret dating from 1938 will be put up for auction at Cheffins as part of The Library Sale on April 27.
Freeman’s May 3 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by an exceedingly rare first edition of the King James Bible, printed in London in 1611 and one of only 114 known extant copies. Also under the hammer are illustrated books from the Collection of Nicholas Wedge, 17th and 18th century maps, a…
Lambeth Palace Library is celebrating the forthcoming coronation of King Charles III through an exhibition showcasing coronation documents and religious items that have been used in Royal Coronation ceremonies going back to the Middle Ages and up to Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953.
Curators of a new exhibition about book stories to open at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford later this year are asking for readers' stories about books they have been given.
Gifts and Books will go on display in June and will draw on material from ancient Sumerian writing tablets to contemporary…
A painting which was part of the frontispiece of a Timurid manuscript, perhaps a copy of The Conference of the Birds, comes under the hammer at Christie's next week at its Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds auction with an estimate of £150,000-£200,000 ($186,000 - $249,000).
