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An unpublished set of pen, ink, and watercolour sketches showing Charles Dickens and his theatre…
A wide variety of documentation relating to the history of the Scottish Cricket Union and Cricket…
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Nate D. Sanders Auctions will auction an exceptionally rare presidential pardon signed by President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy on November 30. It is dated November 14, 1963, eight days before the assassination of President Kennedy.
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The Grolier Club will unravel the history of detective literature in its new exhibition Whodunit? Key Books in Detective Fiction, on view from November 30 through February 10, 2024 at its New York location. 
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The rare vellum copy of the most celebrated legal document in the English-speaking world was published in 1733 by the English designer, engraver, and cartographer John Pine (1690-1756). It will be offered by Chiswick Auctions on November 29 by a private vendor with an…
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Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School (FMDG) has donated its entire Braille music catalog, the second-largest collection of Braille music in the country, to The New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Through this donation, the Heiskell Library will make…
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A complete copy of Edward S Curtis’s seminal The North American Indian, arguably the most complete ethnographic record of the native peoples of North America ever assembled, topped the two days of Fine Books & Manuscript auctions at Hindman. 
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A Washington Cathedral program book from March 31, 1968, inscribed and signed by the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the final days of his life has sold at Hakes for $28,556.Dr King delivered his final Sunday sermon at that service and according to Hake’s research no other MLK autograph…
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Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books sale on December 7 is set to include a wide assortment of maps and graphics chronicling the advancement of knowledge of the world from the 16th through the 20th century. Featured themes will be maps of the American…
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A long-lost manuscript by renowned 20th century German author Georg Hermann has been published over 80 years after it was written, thanks to the efforts of a University of London researcher.
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This year's annual Sandars Lectures series running later this month will be given by Dr David Pearson on the subject of Cambridge Bookbinding 1450-1775.The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is one of the most prestigious honorary posts to which book historians, librarians and researchers can be…
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A rare eyewitness account of the trial of two Suffolk women accused of witchcraft in the 17th century comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions on November 29. The case, presided over by the famous judge Sir Matthew Hale in March 1664, was one later used as the legal precedent for the Salem Witch…