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Leading Christie’s' Classic Week next month is Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene. Dialogo in perpuosito de la stella nuova, the first published work attributed to Galileo Galilei.
The J. Paul Getty Museum has been gifted 38 manuscript leaves made by Italian artists from the 12th to 17th centuries, largely for Christian choir books and depicting religious scenes mostly drawn from the lives of Jesus, Mary, and the saints.
Oxford Libararies Architecture by Geoffrey Tyack with photography by Dan Paton is not technically rare since it's due to be published later this week, but it is a marvellous volume of interest to readers of Fine Books & Collections.
More than a century after he was officially excluded, the British Library plans to symbolically reinstate the revoked Reader Pass that belonged to Oscar Wilde.
The largest collection of Cassandra Austen's artwork is on display at Jane Austen's House until September.The most well known of Cassandra’s surviving art are her family portraits, including her unfinished sketch of her sister Jane. The Art of Cassandra brings together 10 of her pieces,…
An ornate 1636 prayer book has been restored and returned to public exhibition with the help of a pioneering archaeological facility at the University of Exeter.Embroidered with silver and gold thread and one of very few of its kind to survive, the volume is housed at the stately home of Lanhydrock…
The National Library of Scotland centenary celebrations continue with the opening today of a new exhibition celebrating all kinds of libraries and the books that shape us.
The top lot at Swann Galleries' Printed & Manuscript Americana auction included the only known letter by Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s grandmother Lydia Mack.
An archive of letters by Victorian polymath John Ruskin believed to be the be the largest group of Ruskin letters and manuscripts in private hands comes up for sale at Sworders on July 9. This collection of hundreds of letters, many of them offered for sale in groups of up to a dozen, cover…
A selection of historic comic books and original comic art will be going under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' June 26-29 Comic & Comic Art auction.
