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Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Literature of Legerdemain auction featuring the…
A handwritten letter written by Queen Elizabeth II as a child is estimated to sell for £4,000 when…
Auctions
New York—With highlights spanning six centuries, Swann Galleries’ auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on May 8 offered works by the greatest innovators in the field. The sale totaled more than $2M.
Fairs
In just over two weeks the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association will host its 61st annual London fair, and for the first time will move to central London's Battersea Park. The three-day event will feature 170 leading UK and international dealers, and is the centerpiece of over two months of…
Auctions
The spring rare books and manuscripts auction at Skinner will feature more than 700 lots of printed books, historic manuscripts, maps, and prints, including
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Bryn Hoffman, proprietor of Pyewacket Books in Oakland, California:  
In 1870, the eccentric American transportation entrepreneur George Francis Train took a trip around the world in eighty travel days (with a two-month stopover in Paris), so when Jules Verne published his bestselling Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873, Train was quick to claim, "Verne stole my…
Auctions
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Graphic Design on May 3 offered vintage posters that defined the styles of the twentieth century.
On Tuesday, May 8, University Archives offers Autographed Documents, Manuscripts, Books &
Exhibit
New York — From dragons, unicorns, and other fabled beasts to inventive hybrid creations, artists in the Middle Ages filled the world around them with marvels of imagination.
News
The winner of the 17th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography, sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers wi