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A complete collection of the books published by Kelmscott Press during its seven-…
Featuring letters, diaries, and photographs, the Library of Congress has released an online…
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The British Library has acquired a series of letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the archive of novelist and playwright John Galsworthy. 
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RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale ending December 11 features nearly 900 items with a special focus on science and technology. Leading the sale is a one-page handwritten theological manuscript by Isaac Newton which focuses on the Nicene Creed and his controversial views on the…
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The Bodleian Libraries’ new exhibition Oracles, Omens and Answers opens tomorrow, exploring a wide range of historic divination techniques form astrology and palm reading to weather and public health forecasting.Running through April 27, 2025
, at the Weston Gallery in Oxford highlights include:
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A short inscription by the 14-year-old Franz Kafka which is the earliest piece of his writing known to exist will come to auction for the very first time at Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts online sale running December 8 - 18.
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A selection from the extensive collection of California-based collectors Rick L. Schwartz and Linda Fisher featuring 35 limited-edition fountain pens from top makers David Oscarson and Loiminchay is going under the hammer at Bonhams' The Art of Writing sale running until December 4. 
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Among many lots achieving prices well above estimate at Tennants Auctioneers' latest sale was a small collection of religious manuscripts predominantly dating from the 17th and 18th centuries which sold in six lots for a combined hammer price of £9,630. 
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Posters from classic movies will go under the hammer next week at Heritage Auctions including Boris Karloff's final appearance as Victor Frankenstein’s monster, and Orson Welles's 1936 'Voodoo Macbeth'.Highlights of the December 2-3 Movie Posters auction include: * the Style A one sheet for…
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Freeman’s | Hindman will present the first of several installments of Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller at its New York saleroom on December 5. The auction will feature more than 250 lots from the well known book dealer and…
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The Morgan Library & Museum has acquired the earliest manuscript with color illustrations of the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, more famously known as The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore. 
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An original set of handwritten lyrics by John Lydon (also known as Johnny Rotten) from the Sex Pistols' 1977 debut album Never Mind the Bollocks have sold for $82,638 at RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale.