Fine Books News: Recent
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
Going under the hammer this week at University Archives is a ticket stub for Charles Dickens's…
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The Charles Dickens Museum has announced that its current Deputy Director, Frankie Kubicki, will become Director of the Museum in March 2025. Kubicki has been with the Museum for eight years, initially as Curator, before progressing to Senior Curator and, latterly, Deputy Director: Programmes…
A Christmassy selection for this week's Rare Book of the Week, a Bible (both Old and New Testaments) from the Oxford University Press, published around 1880, with the extra feature that it is also a handbag with folding brass handles.
Salisbury Cathedral has received an early Christmas present from Friends of the Nations’ Libraries (FNL) which has successfully raised £90,000 to buy a stunning 13th century Bible illuminated by the Sarum Master, and returned it home to the cathedral city after more than 700 years.
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments which dates to the Late Roman-Byzantine period (ca. 300–800 CE) has been sold for $5,040,000 at Sotheby’s New York, achieving well above its pre-sale estimate of $1m – $2m. The 115-pound marble artifact inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew was…
Various pieces of Americana and celebrity memorabilia are under the hammer at RR Auction in a sale ending tomorrow.
Highlights of the Encapsulated Auction which ends on December 19 include:
Our regular look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month. The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries by Andrew Hui
A handwritten manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton exploring the origins of the Nicene Creed and the true doctrine of Christ has sold for $69,870 at RR Auction's latest Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.
Swann Galleries will sell 223 lots of Fine Photographs on Tuesday, December 17, with Ansel Adams' Portfolio Four (1963) expected to lead the sale at $50,000–75,000.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art's exhibition An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama focuses on the first imperial copy of Iran’s national epic, Firdawsi’s Shahnama or Book of Kings.The manuscript, completed sometime between 1330 and 1336 in Tabriz, the capital of the Ilkhanids,…
As the world commemorates the centennial of James Baldwin’s birth, Brooklyn Public Library has opened its Turkey Saved My Life - Baldwin in Istanbul, 1961–1971 exhibition featuring rare photographs by Turkish photographer Sedat Pakay.Running through February 28, 2025 in the Grand Lobby of the…
