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New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
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The first full-size bronze statue of Virginia Woolf in England is set to be unveiled - by Virginia’s great niece Emma Woolf with her 2 year old son Ludovic Cecil Woolf (Ludo) - on the upper terraces at Richmond Riverside following a five-year fundraising campaign.
Another busy week coming up in the sale rooms:
The preview of AntiquarianAuctions.com #13 opened at 12.30pm EDT on Wednesday 26th: bidding will begin on Wednesday 2nd November at 12.30pm EDT, and close for all lots at 12.30pm EST on Wednesday 9th November. The sale includes over 300 lots of books, maps, manuscripts, artwork and photographs.
The Library of Congress has acquired the San Salvador Huejotzingo Codex, which documents legal proceedings from 1571 in which Indigenous Nahuatl officials in central Mexico accused their village’s Spanish canon, or administrator, of mistreatment, harassment and underpayment.
To celebrate the centenary of one of the most important poems of the 20th century, the Folio Society is publishing an edition of T. S. Eliot’s influential masterpiece The Waste Land, limited to 350 copies.
A rare book laced with a deadly poison has been discovered by librarians in Leeds as part of a global search for the toxic texts stashed on shelves across the world.
Leeds Central Library’s copy of My Own Garden: The Young Gardener’s Yearbook was published back in 1855, and has been safely tucked…
London - In a rare appearance at auction, a magnificent folio from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh has sold for £8,061,700 / $9,091,179. The manuscript set a new record in GBP for any Islamic object or work on paper at auction, surpassing the previous record set by another leaf from the same manuscript…
Berkeley, California - On November 3, 2022 PBA Galleries will be hosting an auction with nearly 450 lots of illustrated children’s books, posters, graphic design, food & drink, and a wide selection of golf. Featured are examples from the golden age of illustration, posters from the 1890’s to…
Philadelphia - The day after the completion and signing of the Constitution of the United States of America in September 1787, George Washington sent a copy of the landmark document to Thomas Jefferson, along with a personal letter announcing its adoption. In Freeman’s November 15 Books and…
A new interactive exhibition has opened at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House in Manchester exploring the writer’s role as a radical changemaker in Victorian society.
The permanent exhibition in the new Brontë Room space looks at how the author of North and South and her daughters played a key…
