Fine Books News: Recent

A new exhibition at Princeton University Library showcases late 19th and early 20th century…
The Morgan Library & Museum has received a gift from William Palmer Johnston of works by Herman…
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The Raab Collection has acquired a rare letter of George Washington that goes to the heart of the American Revolution and the spirit of the colonists to take up their own arms to fight off the oppressors. 
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A historic document signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, crucial to the construction of the Panama Canal, has sold for $49,711 at RR Auction's sale of presidential documents and artifacts.
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Quinn’s Auction Galleries will auction political memorabilia archive of Washington insider and Kennedy family confidante Melody Miller (1945-2022) online on February 18.
Current Events & Trends
The Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection sale at Christie's has realised a total of £4,627,224 from a variety of lots of books, art, and Dame Edna ephemera.
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A new exhibition commemorating the 700th anniversary of the oldest Spanish cookbook has opened at the University of Valencia in Spain.
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A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art explores the creativity of endpapers which have become an expanded artistic canvas in contemporary children’s publishing. 
Book Fairs
The Ephemera Society of America's flagship event next month will feature more than 10,000 items including advertisements, baseball cards, rare maps, playbills, banknotes, sheet music, luggage tags, and wood engravings.
Bright Young Collectors
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Emily Chauvin, an honorable mention in the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women collectors aged 30 and younger:Where are you from / where do you live?
Auctions
Swann Galleries' February 13 Fine Photographs sale features a selection of 20th century images capturing urban, rural, and social settings.
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San Francisco Center for the Book has announced its second national mentorship award in book arts for Summer 2025 with experienced mentors Julie Chen and Zach Clark who are committed to nurturing the next generation of book artists.With the support of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, SFCB will be…