Fine Books News: Recent
A century after Sir James Roberts gifted Haworth Parsonage to the Brontë Society it has announced…
Of the 138 lots covering the history of science at PBA Galleries' August 28 auction are 18 related…
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Our regular look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month. Book Curses by Eleanor Baker
An original set of working lyrics from Johnny Rotten for two anthems from the Sex Pistols’ 1977 debut album Never Mind the Bollocks will go under the hammer at RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music auction.
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Christian Fassbender, proprietor of Desert Wind Rare Books.How did you get started in rare books?
Dating to the Late Byzantine period and approximately 1,500 years old, Sotheby’s will auction the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments next month with an estimate of $1-$2m.It is the only complete tablet of the Ten Commandments still extant from this early era (ca. 300-800 CE) and…
Friends of the Nations’ Libraries is leading a campaign to raise £90,000 to buy a 13th century Bible illuminated by the famed Sarum Master and to donate it to Salisbury Cathedral, returning it home after nearly eight centuries.
Christie’s' Classic Week Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 11 live auction in London will feature an important collection of music manuscripts from Beethoven, Wagner, Stravinsky, Verdi, Puccini, Ravel, Strauss, Mendelssohn and Debussy.
Photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) is the subject of a major retrospective at the MOP Foundation opening later this month.
Here's what I'll be keeping an eye on this week:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, November 12, 217 lots of Angling, Hunting, Travel & Exploration, including a number of large lots.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is an incunablula leaf from the Caxton Chaucer from The Wife of Bath's Prologue which appears at the Freeman's Hindman November 14 Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana auction in Chicago.
The lineup of the British Library's major exhibitions next year includes an exploration of the transformative, enriching and radical power of gardening in Britain, as well as the relationship between mapping and secrecy in a global context between the 9th and 21st centuries.
