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Auctions

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson, presentation copy for Peter Koch in original wappers

Hans Christian Andersen First Edition, Association Copies, and Dolls' House Furniture at Auction

Addison & Sarova Auctioneers - Online Auction

Picasso's Celestine, Conan Doyle Letter on Houdini, Art Deco Posters: Auction Preview

Photographs

Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, Herbarium Plate 54 - Pansy, 202, and Herbarium Plate 64 - Christmas Cactus, 2023. Archival pigment prints.

Photo-Based Work Inspired by Emily Dickinson's Garden on View

Julia Margaret Cameron's Images for Tennyson to Auction

Historic England Acquires Collection of Earliest Photographs of England

Maps

Geographia, Sebastian Münster, 1540

Sunderland Collection Rare Cartographical Loan on Display

16th Century Cartographer's Library Recreated at TEFAF Maastricht

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Sponsored

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Hand-edited manuscript leaf by Henry David Thoreau for Cape Cod

Rare Henry David Thoreau Handwritten Manuscript from 'Cape Cod' to Auction

Broadside Announcing Martial Law During 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Auction

Rare Documents from American Revolution Under the Hammer at Bonhams

Rare Books

The four Folios

All Four Shakespeare Folios to Auction with £4.5m Estimate

Oldest English Book on Cheese: Rare Book of the Week

Alan Turing's 'Delilah' papers: Rare Book of the Week

Book People

The Reading Agency's Quick Read giveaway at Waterstones Bradford for World Book Night

World Book Day: Half of UK Adults Say Distraction Stops Them Reading

Bright Young Booksellers: Josh Knight

Lyell Lectures 2025: 'Victorian Books and their Servants'

Exhibitions

Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della pittura (A Treatise on Painting). Manuscript fair copy, produced in the workshop of Cassiano dal Pozzo, ca. 1638–1641

Da Vinci and John Coltrane Manuscripts Lead Exhibition of New Acquisitions at the Morgan

Story of George Washington and King George III Told Through Original Documents

Weston Library Celebrates Anniversary with Unveiling of Newly Discovered Royal Manuscript

Book Arts

Edward Gorey exhibition brochure

New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Karen Wirth's Book Art Inspired by Architectural Forms Goes on Show

DogEar Festival Returns to Celebrate Artists’ Books and Printmaking

Visual Art

Where the Wild Things Are, New York, Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first state, from the author’s library. Estimate: $6,000-$9,000.

Maurice Sendak's Works and Collection to Auction to Fund Special Fellowship

Small Press Experimental Poetry Focus at New Grolier Exhibition

Grateful Dead's First Gig Poster Leads Music Memorabilia Auction