100 books, manuscripts, and photographs from the Royal Society of Medicine library lead the Christie’s Valuable Books, Manuscripts and Photographs sale later this year with a total estimate of £2.17m-£3.20m.Proceeds from the auction on December 10 will be directly invested into the RSM including…

Letters written by Ludwig van Beethoven, Albert Einstein, James A. Garfield, and René Magritte lead RR Auction's October Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.

Ursula K Le Guin began writing each new story by drawing a map and from October 10 The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K Le Guin will present a selection of these images by her including many which have never been exhibited previously.

Diaries written by English molecular biologist Francis Crick who played a crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule will go under the hammer at Sworders on October 24.The three volumes, covering the period 1938-39 are part of a cache of manuscripts that include letters…

More than 150 volumes from landscape architect Renny Reynolds’ personal library on garden design and architecture went under the hammer at Freeman’s | Hindman Garden Party: The Collection of Renny Reynolds auction.Reynolds’s client list included Giorgio Armani, Diana Ross, and Andy Warhol, while he…

Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American women book collectors aged 30 years and younger, was established in 2017 by Honey & Wax…

Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has now made available recordings of talks from its Summer 2025 Lecture Series. A Parallel History of Books and Blooks with Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtWatch on YouTubeListen on SoundCloud

The Huntington will become the permanent home of the L.A. Louver Archive & Library which will preserve more than five decades of documentation related to Southern California contemporary art and cultural history.  “The L.A. Louver Archive & Library expands our ability to tell the story…

Christie's will hold its Photographs online sale from September 25 through October 10 featuring items such as rare vintage prints by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, post-war photographs by Diane Arbus, Peter Beard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and contemporary highlights by…

Amsterdam's Fine & Rare Book Fair opens at the city's historic Zuiderkerk church on September 27, running through September 28. Organised by the Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Antiquaren (Dutch Association of Antiquarian Booksellers), more than 40 dealers from around Europe will offer a…