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Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery is a new exhibition at Winterthur Museum, Garden…
Nearly 200 lots telling the writing story of Barbara Taylor Bradford go under the hammer at Doyle…
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This week's Rare Book of the Week is copy of the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis which was bought by the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology in Texas at the Christie's auction earlier this year of astronomer
A selection of works offered by Oxfam performed well at Bonhams' Fine Books and Manuscripts sale with the first complete Bible in Chinese translated by John Lassar and Joshua Marshman, published serially in Serampore, starting in 1817, going for £56,280 against an estimate of £600-£800.
The Royal Academy of Arts in London is presenting a comprehensive survey of politician, author, and artist Victor Hugo’s rarely seen works on paper.Featuring around 70 artworks from important European collections, Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo follows Hugo’s preoccupation with…
A previously-unseen partial manuscript for classic French movie À Bout de Souffle will go under the hammer at Sotheby's this summer with an estimate of €400,000 – €600,000.
The British Library has confirmed a £1.1 billion new development of the Library’s St Pancras site which will create new public spaces for the British Library alongside new, globally significant capacity for commercial science, innovation and knowledge industry. The development will create an…
The Huntington Library has acquired the rare 15th century devotional print Christ on the Mount of Olives, reuniting it with the institution’s Gutenberg Bible.
The Bodleian Libraries in Oxford is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Weston Library, the home of its outstanding special collections, by unveiling a manuscript designated a 'national treasure' which has now been saved for the nation.
Is a rare book always greater than the sum of its parts? Is it a desecration to break up a copy of the world’s greatest book? Or is it democratising the book by making its historic pages more accessible to many more people than just one wealthy owner?
Highlights of Swann Galleries' auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana on March 20 include: * Advance press copy of Martin Luther King Jr's Nobel Peace Prize lecture on December 11, 1964, in which he addresses not only the struggle against racial injustice, but also poverty and…
A prayer book belonging to Dr Crippen will go under the hammer at Richard Winterton Auctioneers on March 24.American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged in 1910 after the disappearance of his wife Cora, a music hall…
