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Heritage Auctions’ March 28 Historical Manuscripts features more than 600 letters written by Meyer…
A century after opening its doors for the first time, the Charles Dickens Museum has welcomed Her…
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A rare signed limited edition of Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist will be available for auction through Nate D. Sanders Auctions on March 27.
National Records of Scotland (NRS) has completed the return of thousands of documents that were stolen from its archives and from other UK institutions by a single individual between 1949 and 1980.NRS recovered around 3,100 items, mainly family, estate and business correspondence, that its…
With this year marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Type Punch Matrix will be display the collection of books built by co-founder Rebecca Romney for her latest book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
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.
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…
