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The Brooklyn Museum has unveiled a rare 21ft complete and gilded Book of the Dead, the finest…
The Institute of English Studies in London is offering an insight into book collecting prizes…
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RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale ending December 11 features nearly 900 items with a special focus on science and technology. Leading the sale is a one-page handwritten theological manuscript by Isaac Newton which focuses on the Nicene Creed and his controversial views on the…
What a week coming up in the auction rooms!
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney was a dedicated sender of Christmas cards and for more than 30 years produced his own.
Highlights of Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books auction on December 10 include: * F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from November 1900 to April 1902, with 68 pen-and-ink and watercolor maps, track charts, and illustrations of the ship’s…
The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure comes to auction next week featuring photographs by Frank Hurley who documented Shackleton's exploits in addition to a huge personal library of travel and exploration books.
Firsts Hong Kong opens today and runs until December 8 at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, marking the incorporation of the former China in Print fair into the Firsts stable.
The Bodleian Libraries’ new exhibition Oracles, Omens and Answers opens tomorrow, exploring a wide range of historic divination techniques form astrology and palm reading to weather and public health forecasting.Running through April 27, 2025
, at the Weston Gallery in Oxford highlights include:
A single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her final novel Atlas Shrugged comes to auction at Doyle on December 6 in its Rare Books, Autographs & Maps auction.
The 2024 iteration of the annual Panizzi Lectures take place at the British Library and online this month on the subject of Black Bibliography, Here and Now.
A short inscription by the 14-year-old Franz Kafka which is the earliest piece of his writing known to exist will come to auction for the very first time at Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts online sale running December 8 - 18.
