For the Love of Used Books

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

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

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

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

Auctions

Triptych poster design for Dubonnet showing a man drinking an aperitif, filling with color as the triptych progresses.

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

Potter Rarities, Signed Harper Lee, Bounty Narratives: Auction Preview

Quentin Blake Artworks at Fundraising Sale for the Centre for Illustration

Rare Books

A pamflyt compiled of Cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodnes, of the same

Oldest English Book on Cheese: Rare Book of the Week

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

Sealskin Confirmed as Material for Medieval Book Covers and Parchment

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

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

Book People

Antique books

Lyell Lectures 2025: 'Victorian Books and their Servants'

Nate Pedersen on The Books of Pseuoscience

65th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Enjoys Record Year

Visual Art

bill bissett. Lunaria. Granary Books, 2001

Small Press Experimental Poetry Focus at New Grolier Exhibition

Grateful Dead's First Gig Poster Leads Music Memorabilia Auction

'Goodnight Moon' Stamps to be Unveiled for Children's Book Week