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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Freeman’s | Hindman has announced the upcoming auction Design for Living: A Private Collection of Georg Jensen Silver, taking place on December 11 in New York City.This extraordinary single-owner collection brings together rare examples of Georg Jensen’s silver hollowware representing the very…
Running online until October 28, Sotheby’s Paris is presenting rare books and manuscripts from the library of the late Pierre Bergé, bibliophile, art collector, patron and aesthete.
This year's prestigious Sandars Readership in Bibliography lectures will be given by Timothy Young, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts for the Yale Center for British Art, on the theme of 'Resistance to Bibliography'.The Sandars Lectures will be hybrid, offered in person at Robinson College,…
This week's choice was owned by Tywin Lannister (played by Charles Dance) in the television series Game of Thrones.The brown leather-bound Histories of the Greater and Lesser Houses prop appeared in episode six of season two of the HBO adaption of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire…
Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.The Illustrated Cairo Genizah by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee
Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and the Antiquarian Book School Foundation have announced that Lorne Bair has been elected as the new President of the Board of ABSF.
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, October 15, 200 lots of Erotica & Gay, Witchcraft, Literature, Illustrated, etc., including a number of Arthur Rackham illustrated works and seven albums of photographs and memorabilia from the San Francisco drag scene in the 1960s and early 1970s.
A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang, which runs through February 23 2025, at the British Library in London features more than 50 manuscripts, printed documents and pictorial works, many from the sealed ‘Library Cave’ in the cave complex of Mogao and on public display for the first time.…
The University of Minnesota Libraries has announced the largest donation by first-time donors in its 155-year history, a $2m contribution to establish an endowed curatorial chair for the Kerlan Collection of Children’s Literature.
Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
comes to auction later this month focusing on the prominent American photography dealer, gallerist, and collector with a passion for printed and manuscript Americana.
