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Salisbury Cathedral has received an early Christmas present from Friends of the Nations’ Libraries…
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments which dates to the Late Roman-Byzantine…
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Photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) is the subject of a major retrospective at the MOP Foundation opening later this month.
Here's what I'll be keeping an eye on this week:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, November 12, 217 lots of Angling, Hunting, Travel & Exploration, including a number of large lots.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is an incunablula leaf from the Caxton Chaucer from The Wife of Bath's Prologue which appears at the Freeman's Hindman November 14 Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana auction in Chicago.
The lineup of the British Library's major exhibitions next year includes an exploration of the transformative, enriching and radical power of gardening in Britain, as well as the relationship between mapping and secrecy in a global context between the 9th and 21st centuries.
The New York Public Library has reopened its newly renovated 125th Street branch which has been closed since 2021 as part of a major capital investment through the Library’s Carnegie Renovation Program, primarily funded by the city of New York.
A range of items from MGM's movie The Wizard of Oz including scripts, contracts, and memorabilia including the ruby slippers will go under the hammer in Heritage Auction's December 7 Hollywood/Entertainment auction.
A new exhibition on view at The Grolier Club next month will be part conceptual art installation and part bibliophilic entertainment, featuring a collection of books that do not really exist. On view from December 5 through February 15, 2025, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive…
A rare original pen and ink drawing of Babar in a presentation copy of Le Voyage de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff is among the highlights of Bonhams’ Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on November 20 in London.
The Gordon Lightfoot Estate Collection Music Memorabilia sale held by Heritage Auctions on November 17 will celebrate the legacy of the popular Canadian singer-songwriter who died last year.
Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' fall Vintage Poster sale include:Fly to Britain by Clipper / Pan American World AirwaysMark Von Arnburg's 1948 lithograph depicting the Queen’s guard and royal carriage drawn by a team of horses, escorted by soldiers in red, men on horseback with Big Ben…
