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Opening next month at the British Museum, Fairy Tales will celebrate the iconic heroes, villains…
Bonhams has opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street in New York to the public.The…
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Potter & Potter Auctions' February 2023 Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana Sale is the company's first book sale of 2023 and follows on the heels of the company's October, 2022 sale which realized $1.1 million. This 531 lot sale will be held on February 16th starting at 10am CST…
The David Stather Library, a remarkable private collection put together over a lifetime by an avid bibliophile, was sold in a single-owner sale at Tennants Auctioneers, North Yorkshire on January 25. The collection reflected his overriding interests in history and the law, and each book had been…
After the largest redevelopment in its history, The National Portrait Gallery in London will reopen again on June 22, 2023, with a programme of major exhibitions featuring intimate, never-before-seen portraits of The Beatles taken by Paul McCartney, pioneering female photographers such as Yevonde,…
The Folio Society is celebrating its 75th anniversary by winning each of the four categories in which they were nominated at the 2022 British Book Design & Production Awards Awards. The editions honoured show the range and depth of Folio’s publishing, art direction and production expertise by…
A rare, handwritten and signed letter Edgar Allan Poe letter, a Paris Commune Photograph Album, and a first edition of the English translation by Charles Wilkins of the Bhagavad Gita from 1785 are among highlights from Bonhams Skinner’s Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts sale which is…
Following recent archival acquisitions that have expanded its collections of photography, the Bodleian Libraries has announced the opening of a season of photographic exhibitions and talks at the Weston Library, home of the Bodleian’s special collections.
Bound to Impress, the latest exhibition to open in the Mappa Mundi & Chained Library at Hereford Cathedral celebrates the bookbindings within the cathedral’s historic collections.
The exhibition shows a selection of remarkable bindings drawn from the Cathedral's historic collections, from…
The Grolier Club plays host to this hybrid event on January 25, 2.30pm-3.30pm. A panel of Carnegie Mellon scientists and scholars - Christopher N. Warren, Max G'Sell, and Grolier Club member Samuel Lemley - will speak on Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods…
Last spring, Fine Books & Collections broke the news that Colorado book collector David L. DiLaura had discovered, in his own home library, a second edition (1717) of Sir Isaac Newton’s Opticks that had once been owned by Newton himself.
This February, Phillips’ New York Editions auction will feature over 140 lots of Contemporary prints, spanning 1950s to present. On view from 6 – 15 February at 432 Park Avenue, the live sale will take place on February 15 with two sessions, the first beginning at 10am and the second at 2pm.
