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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amalia V. of New York City who was an…
Highlights of Potter & Potter's Photography, Americana & Historical Memorabilia auction on…
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To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, London rare bookseller Peter Harrington has announced a landmark offering of copies of each of the four Folios as well as a first collected edition of Shakespeare’s Poems. This is a rare occasion for a single collector to…
John Speed's market-fresh copy of the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman sold for £33,750 ($41,580) at Chiswick Auctions. Speed’s A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World bound together with The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine had come for sale by family…
A new exhibition at Charles Dickens’s London home - A Great and Dirty City: Dickens and the London Fog - looks at how the author used fog as a regular and imposing motif in his works. As well as a major inspiration to Dickens, it was also a personal health hazard, intensifying the asthma from…
The libraries of the National Trust - which runs more than 500 historic properties across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland - constitute one of the nation's most impressive collections of rare books. The charity's marvellous new richly-illustrate book brings together a wide selection of the most…
Arion Press's new King Artist in Residency is a new book arts initiative in honor of the Grabhorn Institute’s late board chair Kevin King. The King Residency will bring visual artists to Arion’s historic facility to create and conceive book and print projects alongside the Press’s team of expert…
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Swann Galleries' April 13 Printed & Manuscript Americana auction features an exciting an array of Civil War material represented by several diaries, including an officer on a desert expedition undertaken by the 1st California Cavalry; a Virginia Military Institute cadet pressed into active…
A cookery book whose renowned author coined the term ‘chef’ and laid the blueprint for modern restaurant dining is set to serve up a tasty price at auction.
Published in 1871, The Household Cookery Book by famous French cuisinier Urbain Dubois goes under the hammer with Richard Winterton…
An original and uncirculated example of the first Canadian banknote to feature a portrait of the eventual Queen, Elizabeth II, sold for $132,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' March 23 World Paper Money Auction.
The Serial Number 7 Canada Bank of Canada $20 1935 BC-10 French Text …
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Highlights from Donald A Heald Rare Books’ latest catalogue Colour Plate Books (1800-1883) including:
