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Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
The library of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight and her late husband the writer Alan Sillitoe…
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Cincinnati, OH – On November 15, Hindman Auctions will offer The Henry Fitz Jr. Archive of Photographic History. Forgotten since the 1930s, a cache of some of the earliest photographic portraits taken in America was recently discovered in an unheated shed near Peconic, Long Island. It has been…
Minneapolis, MN — The Minnesota Book Artist Award is a unique category at the Minnesota Book Awards, going beyond the content of a book’s pages to celebrate the visual and structural qualities that are integral to the handmade book.
In our spring 2016 issue, we interviewed master magician and book collector Ricky Jay on the occasion of the publication of his magnum opus and a related Met exhibition about seventeenth-century polymath Matthias Buchinger. Since Jay’s death in 2018, however, his collection has been in limbo.
Four hundred years ago, Oxford scholar Robert Burton published what some now consider the ‘grandfather of all self-help manuals,’ The Anatomy of Melancholy. The book contains Burton’s considerations on the nature and symptoms of melancholy (depression) as well as his suggestions for curatives like…
San Marino, CA -- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired one of the world’s most significant libraries focused on the history of cardiology and cardiovascular science. The W.
New York — The Thursday, October 21 sale of Fine Photographs at Swann Galleries will offer exceptional examples from the medium’s brightest practitioners. Works will include those made in the nineteenth century through the modern era.
2021 marks seventy years since the first volume in Anthony Powell’s twelve-volume series A Dance to the Music of Time was published (more on this in our autumn issue). By happy coincidence, the National Gallery in London and the Getty Center in Los Angeles have organized an exhibition devoted to…
Los Angeles — Cal State LA and USC have been awarded a nearly $500,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources to digitize Mesoamerican and Spanish colonial materials.
Basel, Switzerland — It has been a long time since we were all able to meet in-person and celebrate the wonderful art of so many eras, countries, and styles, such as are always on display at Frieze Masters. Thus, Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books AG is excited to return this October with a selection of…
Here's what I'll be watching this week:
On Tuesday, October 12, 373 lots of Lettres & Manuscrits Autographes – Musique at Ader. The top manuscript lot is expected to be a four-page Haydn autograph manuscript from the Trio Hob.XI 48 and Trio Hob.XI 50, which is estimated at €30,…
