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Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's new catalogue Nowhere, a selection of books on utopias,…
Heritage Auctions’ July 24–25 Movie Posters auction features a range of Universal's horror posters…
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In its online Books and Manuscripts sale From Grolier to Godard ending today Sotheby’s is presenting 15 original drawings by Antoine Saint-Exupéry created in Algiers between late 1943 and early 1944, most of them previously unseen.
The first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language has been loaned by Westminster Abbey to St Davids Cathedral where it has gone on public display for the first time this week. The translation of the Bible into Welsh was a key project of the 16th and 17th century…
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Zakiya Collier, an archivist and memory worker in New York City:Please introduce us to your role as an archivist and memory worker:
Coming to auction at Sotheby’s later this month will be the Thirteenth Amendment (estimate: $8m-$12m) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimate: $3m-$5m, both signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The documents will be on public view at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries in New York June 20-25,…
RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale features items related to Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison, and Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is a presentation copy of Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Pilote de guerre inscribed to husband and wife scriptwriters Dido Freire and Jean Renoir.Coming up at Dominic Winter's Printed Books, Maps & Documents auction on June 18 is the first edition limited…
It's Bloomsday today, celebrated around the world every June 16 which is the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses is set in 1904.
The Huntington Library’s new exhibition series in Los Angeles opens June 21 with a focus on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and in particular the library's own Ellesemere Chaucer.
Bartholomaeus’s De proprietatibus rerum printed in Cologne in 1481 by Johanem koelhoff de lubeck leads Bellmans' Printed Books & Manuscripts sale on July 16 with an estimate of £3,000 -£5,000.
The Salon du Livre Rare & des Arts Graphiques opens today in Paris and runs through June 15.Organised by the French antiquarian booksellers association the Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne, there are more than 100 international exhibitors at the Carreau du Temple. Among…
