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Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac will explore the writer’s personal life from…
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International…
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A prayer book belonging to Dr Crippen will go under the hammer at Richard Winterton Auctioneers on March 24.American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged in 1910 after the disappearance of his wife Cora, a music hall…
At Freeman's | Hindman in Chicago on Tuesday, March 18, The Collected Library, in 364 lots. A group of 162 Limited Editions Club publications from the collection of former Ford CEO Donald Petersen rates the top estimate at $3,000–5,000. A run of Paxton's Magazine of Botany (1834–1849) is estimated…
This week's Rare Book of the Week is this Book of Hours from the third quarter of the 15th century, Flanders, illustrated by Willem Vrelant with Latin text in brown and red ink, 15 miniatures in border framing, decorative initials, and a green-blue velvet binding with openwork silver clasps, and…
The Book Collector literary journal has appointed David Pearson as its new editor, following the death of James Fleming in December last year.
For the first time in its 40 year history, The Sunderland Collection, a private collection of rare antique cartography, is loaning items to a public institution. The collection is lending eight atlases and maps to the Sainsbury Centre, a public art museum in Norwich, UK which is affiliated…
The Fresh Perspectives Symposium, hosted by the Winterthur Library, runs next week aimed at the next generation of rare book, manuscript, and special collections professionals, scholars, and enthusiasts.
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Daniel Crouch Rare Books will bring to an exhibition celebrating the cartographic innovations of the Dutch Golden Age to TEFAF Maastricht which runs March 15 – 20 2025.
A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible has been found in an attic in Bromsgrove, UK and is expected to sell for £20,000 - £30,000 later this month.The manuscript dating back to circa 1455 will be sold at Chorley’s Auctioneers in the UK's Cotswolds on March 25. It was found by a resident of Bromsgrove in…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Elizabeth Mebane, proprietor of Goldberry at Home.How did you get started in rare books?
Hake’s' March 25-26 auction will showcase a selection of original art including Howard Chaykin’s original pen-and-ink page art from issue #1 of the Star Wars comic book.
