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Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair returns to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from May 14 through May…
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
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Today’s featured video is part of the “Paper Cuts” series of short presentations hosted by Jason W. Dean, vice president for special collections, and Dr. Jamie Cumby, assistant curator of rare books and manuscripts, at Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri. In this episode, they talk about…
The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, rescheduled for September 2021, has now been canceled yet again. The upswing in Covid, as a result of the Delta variant, and a less than expected vaccination rate, made proceeding with the show impossible.
Santa Monica, CA — Rare Books LA welcomes you back to in-person book fairs with the upcoming show Rare Books LA - Santa Monica. This exciting event is sponsored by Biblio.com and being held in a beautiful retail storefront at 1219 Third Street Promenade, a prime retail and dining destination…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Madison Rootenberg Schwartz, of Rootenberg Rare Books with locations in Los Angeles, California and Durham, North Carolina. Madison was also a previous entry in our Bright Young Collectors series for her collection of unicorn books.
Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this 600+ lot sale to be held on Saturday, August 28th starting at 10am CDT. The event will be held online and live streamed, with a limited number of bidders physically allowed in the gallery as determined by current Illinois public…
Wilton, CT – University Archives will hold back-to-back online auctions on Wednesday and Thursday, August 25th and 26th, starting at 10:30 am Eastern time both days. The August 25th auction will be a general sale offering collectors a variety of autographs, rare books, historical documents and…
We've reached the quiet August period of auction sales, but I will be keeping an eye on the Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Vinyl Records & CDs at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on Wednesday, August 11.
Los Angeles — On October 28, Bonhams sale of Music Memorabilia will offer two extraordinary rarities from The Beatles’ earliest years, handwritten set lists from live performances held in 1960 and 1963. Both set lists were written by Sir Paul McCartney when he was only 17 and 20 years old. These…
We received a tip this week from antiquarian bookseller Peter Masi about a bookshop in upstate New York that is on the market. If you’ve ever aspired to run a bookshop in the countryside, now’s the chance. With a stock of 35,000 fine, rare, and used books, prints and ephemera, Own Pen Books could…
Los Angeles – August 13, 1521, marks the fall of the Aztec Empire (also known as the Triple Alliance). Following more than a year of war, a smallpox outbreak, and a protracted siege, the Mexicas (also referred to as the Aztecs) surrendered to the Spanish conquistadors and their Indigenous allies,…
