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A century after Sir James Roberts gifted Haworth Parsonage to the Brontë Society it has announced…
Of the 138 lots covering the history of science at PBA Galleries' August 28 auction are 18 related…
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On view in the Grolier Club’s ground floor gallery in New York from May 2 through July 27, Hardly Harmless Drudgery: Landmarks in English Lexicography will feature more than 100 objects including the first English dictionary by a woman and a preview of draft entries to be included in…
Jon Bogdanove is auctioning his drawing that told the world Superman would die at Heritage Auction's April 4-7 Comics & Comic Art auction.Bogdanove's original artwork - which featured the first appearance of the character called Doomsday - never appeared in a comic book but did make the cover…
Denis Kitchen will bring 275 works of original comic art to Heritage Auction’s April 4-7 Comics & Comic Art sale including work ranging from Li’l Abner originals by Al Capp to Spirit offerings from Will Eisner.
BookBuzz.org is a new search engine that aims to help people shop from independent booksellers.Search results should show the cheapest copies available online from booksellers, bookstores and marketplaces. It does not display listings from Amazon or any of its subsidiaries.The website suggests…
The National Trust’s annual insect pests report has found that Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina), which feed on books, paper and cotton, retained top spot with recorded numbers rising by six per cent.The report collates information gathered by house staff around the Trust, helping the charity to…
A nearly 400-year-old letter that documents the mythologized 'purchase' of the island of Manhattan from the Indigenous peoples who inhabited it is on view now through July 14, at the New-York Historical Society.
The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History looks at how the Arctic has been visually depicted from the 16th century to the present, and runs through July 13 at the New York Public Library.
Inspired by the life and work of Beacon Hill-based abolitionist Harriet Bell Hayden, Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums at the Boston Athenaeum brings together rarely seen works and examines Black abolitionists’ public identities, private lives, visual culture, and social activism…
John le Carré's desks, tables, chairs and other personal effects from his Cornish estate Tregiffian will go under the hammer at Roseberys London on March 20.
Cambridge University Library will draw on its collections of crime fiction for a new exhibition opening later this month.
