Fine Books News: Recent

Highlights from PBA Galleries' miniature books auction on August 28 include:Expelled by John…
An unpublished set of pen, ink, and watercolour sketches showing Charles Dickens and his theatre…
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The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) is inviting booksellers, collectors, librarians, and anybody handling antiquarian material to attend its symposium Libraries, Booksellers and Collectors discuss Provenance, Restitution and the Conservation of our Written Heritage at Paris'…
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced a new multiyear agreement with Ancestry to digitize, index, and publish tens of millions of historical United States records, previously unavailable online. 
At Chiswick Auctions on Tuesday, May 14, 209 lots of Books and Works on Paper, including a William Nicholson boxing illustration (£26,000–28,000); Léon de Laborde's Voyage en Orient (1837–1845), estimated at £6,000–8,000; and Amedeo Preziosi's Stamboul (1865), expected to sell for £4,000–6,000. A…
Book Fairs
Firsts London 2024, the rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London, runs May 16 - 19 with 'The Art of the Book' as the theme for this year.The Fair will gather more than 100 international dealers who will be bringing items including bejewelled bindings, pop-up books, Japanese…
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Senate House Library has acquired a rare copy of the first cheap edition of Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop from 1848, featuring 34 original Victorian pen and ink drawings.
Two campaigners from British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil today took a hammer to the glass protecting the copy of the Magna Carta in the British Library's Treasures Gallery in London.
Rare Book School at University of Virginia has released its 2022-23 Annual Report chronicling its 40th anniversary year and developments including its move back into the newly renovated Edgar Shannon Library.
Highlights from Potter & Potter Auctions' June 8 Magicana sale featuring books and other material from the collection of the late Peter Hackhofer includes:* The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase (pseudonym). Chicago: Author, 1902. First edition. Illustrated with over 100 drawings “…
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Correspondence between mathematics colleagues Albert Einstein and Herman Müntz will be up for auction at the Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on June 13 at Stockholms Auktionsverk. 
Auctions
The English Vineyard Vindicated by John Evelyn and John Rose, one of the earliest works on English viticulture, goes under the hammer at Chiswick Auctions later this month.