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The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and…
The New York Public Library has announced plans to commemorate the semiquincentennial of the…
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This month marks 50 years since the British Library began operations in July 1973. Born out of a vision to create a new kind of national institution which would encourage scientific and technological research, business, the arts and humanities, the Library came into existence in 1973 as a result of…
A music book once belonging to Jane Austen and bearing her signature, whereabouts unknown since 1978, has come to light.The volume, Domenico Corri’s Select Collection of Choice Music for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte (c.1790) has been donated to Chawton House ahead of its 20th Anniversary by…
Christie’s has announced Charlie Watts: Gentleman, Collector, Rolling Stone – Literature and Jazz, a two-part auction the library of modern first edition books and extensive collection of jazz memorabilia amassed by the legendary musician and Rolling Stones’ drummer.
More than 300 CGC-certified comic books will feature in Hakes' July 25-26 sale, including examples of nearly all of Marvel’s key Silver Age titles.
RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale focuses on the Revolutionary War, with online bidding running through July 12.
Christie’s Paris online-only Livres Rares et Manuscrits auction explored seven centuries of writing and printing, the sale totaling €992,376.
An Apollo 11 lunar star chart, surface-flown sheet, and signed history book are the headline lots at the online-only Bonhams July 8 - 18 sale.
A complete set of first edition L. Frank Baum ‘Oz’ titles will feature in Heritage Auctions' July 28 sale offering the largest selection of memorabilia from The Wizard of Oz available in more than 50 years.
The inaugural exhibition for the Lambeth Palace Library’s new exhibition room celebrates musical treasures held in its library, placing better-known holdings alongside lesser-known volumes and fragments from the collections.The exhibition features the Arundel Choirbook (one of the most important…
After 17 years heading up the Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs department at Lyon & Turnbull, Simon Vickers is retiring from his full-time position to become a consultant. He will pass the baton of leading an internationally-respected department to his colleague of 10 years Cathy…
