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For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate again with the sacred sounds of monastic music thanks to research into a rare 15th century manuscript.
The 2025 Melbourne Rare Book Fair hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) will bring together international rare book experts and dealers later this month for the largest antiquarian book fair in the southern hemisphere.The 55th annual event runs…
The annual Hemingway Days which honors Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway will be held July 23-27 at his Key West home.
Frank Frazetta’s pen-and-ink Famous Funnies No. 214 Buck Rogers cover original art which portrays Buck Rogers sailing through space topped Heritage Auctions' Comic & Comic Art auction, selling for $1,035,000.
The Grolier Club in New York has released details of its forthcoming exhibition schedule for the coming year starting with a focus on writer Richard Aldington and ending with the Irish literary revival in July 2026.
Two rare Lincoln-signed copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation have set new records for the documents at auction at Sotheby's New York. Both documents were bought by Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel, who intends to loan the documents to a U.S.…
A new tool developed by the University of St Andrews is helping institutions detect toxic pigments in historic books and making it easier to identify hazardous books.The new device has been developed in collaboration between the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums and the…
Stockholms Auktionsverk, founded in 1674, has announced the acquisition of Uppsala Auktionskammare, founded in 1731 with offices and showrooms in Stockholm, Uppsala, Gothenburg and Malmö.Stockholms Auktionsverk, operating across 10 locations in Sweden, Finland and Germany, is the world’s oldest…
![George Washington signed autograph letter on the 'Asgill Affair' denying psychological torture of a British prisoner of war chosen by lottery for etaliatory execution, by “erecting a [gallows] before his prison window”](https://cdn.finebooksmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_listed_teaser_thumb_768x735_/public/media-images/2025-06/washington.jpg?itok=IW8ytYqJ)
A collection of Revolutionary War material including letters from General George Washington and rare items signed by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams is on offer in RR Auction's July 2025 Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale which ends on July 9.
Among the most historically…
A unique collection of books relating to the Quaker movement in England and the U.S. has sold for £11,500 at Anderson & Garland.
