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Unpublished and unseen by scholars, the document was acquired from the heirs of an American collector who purchased it during the Great Depression, and is on exhibit at The Raab Collection for the Fourth of July.
The 1986 typed document signed by both the Queen frontman and his former girlfriend Mary Austin went for £6,930 in the latest Autographs and Memorabilia sale at Chiswick Auctions. Dated 17 June 1986, the legal licence references "the building known as 12 Stafford Terrace, London, W8", the house…
The British Museum in London has reopened its circular Reading Room for visitors with free short tours from July 23.
The Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction running until July 10 includes more than 1,000 lots including a Revolutionary War discharge certificate signed by George Washington on June 30, 1783, and countersigned by Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. with an estimate of $10,000.
The papers of talk show host and sex therapist Ruth Westheimer have been acquired by the Library of Congress and are now opening for research in the Library’s Manuscript Division.Westheimer became a household name as 'Dr. Ruth' in the 1980s, filling radio airwaves, television screens, and…
Incline Press, one of the few surviving private press printers in the UK using entirely letterpress printing from metal type, has published The Tragical Comedy or the Comical Tragedy of Punch & Judy plus two other pamphlets.
Believed to be the earliest extant photographic portrait of a First Lady, the daguerreotype was the subject of fierce competition in Sotheby’s' latest sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana, and sold for ten times its estimate at $456,000. It is the most valuable American…
Special planting ceremonies held in the United States are hoped to result in the regeneration of an historic tree admired by groundbreaking essayist and lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson.
At Sotheby's London on Tuesday, July 2, 73 lots of Important Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of the Late Ernst Boehlen, including a fragmentary bifolium from the Sacramentary of St. Boniface, likely written in eighth-century Northumbria (£250,000–350,000).
One of only two copies of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane and Other Poems in private hands has sold at auction at Sotheby's for $420,000.
