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New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
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The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America's Diversity Initiative Committee has announced a paid summer internship program co-sponsored by AbeBooks.
On February 24, Heritage Auctions presents a 'Coming to America' 60th Anniversary Beatles auction that features significant autographs and signatures of the entire band including their last known sign-off on a record contract and an unused ticket to the band’s first U.S.
RR Auction will feature a collection of 600 unique items in its upcoming February Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction which pays homage to Presidents' Day.Notable among them is a one-page John Adams letter from September 24, 1812, written during the War of 1812. Additionally, a rare 1808…
Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's latest catologue Almanacks: Twelve Books for the New Year:* Le double Liègeois, almanach journalier pour 1842, supputé par M. Math. Laensberg, suivi de ses véritables prophéties. Liège and Paris, Stahl, [1841].
At Sotheby's New York on Monday, January 29, 16 lots of Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana. Sharing the top estimate of $300,000–500,000 are a contemporary manuscript map of General Edward Braddock's route to Fort Duquesne (1755) and Captain James Duncan's manuscript journal of the Siege of…
Following the £1m sale in September 2023 of the first portion of treasured texts collected by William and Christopher Foyle, Dominic Winter Auctioneers will present the second portion of the Foyle Library for sale by public auction on January 31.
An exhibition exploring extraordinary materials collected by Walter and Linda Evans now in the Beinecke’s care, Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington: The Collections of Walter O. Evans at Beinecke Library celebrates Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and Ollie Harrington, key figures of Black history, art…
Swann Galleries' auction brings works from the fringe, the avant garde and the indie for a look at the material culture of punk, rock, psych, hip hop, and jazz. An interdisciplinary sale, this auction will include posters, records, photographs, fine art, autographs, books and ephemera.…
Winston Churchill’s desk from his Hyde Park Gate home in London has been sold at The Winter Show 2024, taking place at The Armoury New York for $450,000.The desk was part of his private office, used in his post-war political career and while writing his Second World War memoirs. This office was…
This is a guest post by TLS editor Michael Caines, on an accidental collection and not knowing what you're really up to.How many of them are there? Maybe only two dozen books. Or thereabouts. And where are they? Well, tellingly, they’re scattered across different shelves because, at first, I didn’t…
