Vanessa Parker, Rare Books Ireland

The most westerly antiques and book store in Europe, large range of antiquarian, illustrated, fine bindings, children`s Irish books, antiques, IADA & IOBA

Auctions

Louisa May Alcott, one of three autograph letters signed to Ellen Humphreys

Louisa May Alcott Letters and Early Hemingway Photo Album to Auction

Early Hemingway, Mars Globe, Tereshkova Notebook: Auction Preview

Tolkien Four Volume Signed Set Sold For $61,599 at RR Auction

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Exhibitions

Diamond Sutra Manuscripts Star in New Silk Roads Exhibition

'Jane Austen and the Art of Writing' Exhibition Opens

New Artists’ Books Exhibition Reimagines the Passport

Book Arts

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Incline Press Launch New Letterpress Edition of 'The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy'

Americana

38 titles in The Writing Process lot of the Anne Rice sale

Anne Rice's Personal Library to Auction

Lincolniana and Stephen White Photography Collection  at Freeman’s | Hindman

Pens Used By John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to Sign Legislation to Auction

Book People

Sydney Rare Book Fair and Sydney Rare Book Week

British Library Installs Innovative Solar Tech to Decarbonise Heat

Full Talks and Events Details for 46th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

Rare Books

Extremely Rare Hand-Corrected Typescript of 'Le Petit Prince' at Abu Dhabi Art 2024

'Mirabilia Romae': Rare Book of the Week

First Edition of John Osborne’s 'Look Back in Anger' With First Page of Draft Script to Auction

Maps

Unpublished annotated Proof of Harry Beck’s 1933 first edition tube map, with corrections and proposals in Becks own hand

Rare London Underground Maps in New Exhibition and Sale

World War II Maps of Service and Sacrifice

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Maps

Photographs

Ansel Adams, Maroon Bells, Near Aspen, Colorado

'Ansel Adams: A Legacy' Photographs Sold for $4.6m

Historic Pre-Civil War Photograph of an Interracial Couple to Auction

New York Photographs and Posters in 400th City Anniversary Auction

Visual Art

Earliest Engravings by William Blake Uncovered Using New Scanning Technology

Leslie Ragan Calendar Art for the New York Central Railway to Auction

Bloomsbury Group Celebrated in New Exhibition Including Rarely Seen Virginia Woolf Gift

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