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For this year’s edition of Frieze Masters Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books will display English…
This week's Rare Book of the Week appears at PBA Galleries' Photography & Fine Art; Fine Press…
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The Morgan Library & Museum exhibition schedules for 2026 includes displays featuring artworks from its collections that explores how stories shape our world, drawings by the poet John Ashbery, a look at photographer Peter Hujar through his contact sheets, and an exploration of the origins of…
Bernard Quaritch's May New Acquisitions list is a curated selection of 32 freshly catalogued items. "Amongst them you will find works on duelling, drawing, and dowries for spinsters; translations by painters, prodigies, poets, and priests; annotated grammars, histories, and armorials; as well as a…
On Wednesday, June 4, University Archives sells 524 lots of Rare Autographs, Books & Space Memorabilia, including six volumes of Cicero from Thomas Jefferson's library ($150,000–200,000) and a huge collection of more than 48,000 nineteenth- and twentieth century art prints ($90,000–150,000). A…
The Lough Kinale Book Shrine is Ireland’s oldest and largest container for a sacred book and has gone on display for the first time after nearly two years of restoration work.Found broken at the bottom of a Longford Lake in 1986 by metal detectorists, then rescued and conserved at the National…
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MCBA's new McKnight Book Artist Fellows are Ellen Mueller, an interdisciplinary artist who examines how capitalist systems affect everyday life with a particular focus on environmental issues, and Sarah Evenson, a gay, transgender artist whose work highlights themes of resistance and…
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Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound will explore the history of unconventional publishing dating from the early 17th century to the present day at the Senate House Library in London.
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James Bond is back in the spotlight with the publication of a rarely seen short story by his creator Ian Fleming and an auction focusing on Bondiana including novels, posters, and other related film items.
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One of the most comprehensive Napoleonic private collections to come to market including Napoleon Bonaparte's personal documents, bicorne hat, and campaign bed will go under the hammer at Sotheby's on June 25.The handwritten and ceremonially ornate marriage certificate of Napoleon and Joséphine…
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Scientific papers by mathematician and leading World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing discovered in an English attic and nearly shredded will go under the hammer on June 17 at Rare Book Auctions.
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ARE YOU MY TYPE? A Typewriter Celebration will take place at the International Printing Museum in Carson, California on June 14 in honor of National Typewriter Day. The event will highlight the beauty of typewriters which are still much loved by enthusiasts although those trying one for the…