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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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For International Women's Day, highlights from Peter Harrington's latest catalogue Louder Than Words: Women Who Changed the World chosen by its lead cataloguers Theodora Robinson and Emma Walshe:
* Book of Hours. Les presentes heures a lusaige de Paris toutes au long sans tiens requerir by Yolande…
Heritage Auctions presents its first major Disney event of 2023, The Art of Disneyland: From Stagecoaches to Monorails... and More! on March 25 and 26 with 850 lots and a huge range of items from Disney's theme parks, plus work by veteran artists Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily, two legendary Disney…
Launched last year to mark The Folio Society’s 75th anniversary, the competition showcases illustration talent from around the world as it nurtures new talent and champions artists working across a diverse range of media.
Her Majesty The Queen Consort joined presenter Fiona Bruce for the latest episode of the BBC television series Antiques Roadshow, bringing in two items and discussing her interest in collecting books.
Filmed in Cornwall at The Eden Project last summer, Camilla presented a rare snuffbox from the…
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:
A collection of books from the personal library of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley is coming to Blackwell Auctions’ March 18 'The American Sale'.
The 395-lot auction contains art, historical objects, and highly important signed ephemera, presidential documents, letters and autographs, and a…
A letter written by King Charles III to his poorly ‘granny’ in 1955 when he was only six years old has been discovered in a loft, together with a copy of the Queen’s 1956 Christmas speech. It will go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers on March 7 with other unique royal items.
Rebecca Romney, rare book dealer and collector at Type Punch Matrix, has shared her thoughts on Twitter about what she describes as "one of the most important skills a rare book dealer can possess: knowing the difference between what’s new/unusual to them and what’s legitimately rare."
Although it…
The Folger Shakespeare Library is celebrating Shakespeare and the 400th anniversary of the printing of the First Folio during the entire month of April 2023, with Searching for Shakespeare: Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio in partnership with DC Public Library.
Highlights from Blackwell's Rare Books' latest catalogue Private Press & Illustrated Books include:
