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The New York Public Library has announced plans to commemorate the semiquincentennial of the…
This premier auction features a select group of unusual, uncommon, and choice rarities. A carefully…
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Among the centerpieces of Heritage Auctions’ September 12-15 Comics & Comic Art auction is one of only two copies of 1961’s Fantastic Four No. 1 awarded a Near Mint+ 9.6 grade by Certified Guaranty Company. A copy graded Near Mint- 9.2 sold in 2022 for $1.5 million. Marvel launched the…
The National Archives Building's National Historic Landmarks designation - held by only 2,600 structures across the country - has been finalised with an official plaque unveiling ceremony in Washington D. C.
Plans to save the cottage where writer and artist William Blake wrote the words of the hymn Jerusalem and turn it into a new centre celebrating his life and work are moving ahead following major grant awards.The cottage in the village of Felpham in West Sussex, England, dates back to the 17th…
A special exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art next month explores a partnership built on mutual respect, trust, and a shared commitment to creating the best possible work.
Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print will exhibit the revered but rarely seen books, documents, and ephemera that empowered Lincoln’s political ascendance, his leadership during the Civil War, and his efforts to end slavery.
The Royal Horticultral Society has made 756 cartes de visite or calling cards of important horticulturists available to the public online for the first time.
A copy of the History of the Indian Tribes of North America - a collection of Native American biographies and lithograph portraits published in Philadelphia from 1837-44 - comes up for sale at Chiswick Auctions later this week. The three-volume set featuring 120 hand-coloured…
Chorley’s have been appointed to sell the library of Ombersley Court in Worcestershire, one of the most important historical country houses in England and the family seat of the Sandys family for 400 years. The collection of rare and never-before-seen books, manuscripts and letters will be offered…
The Huntington has re-acquired a 1543 first edition of De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body) by Andreas Vesalius which revolutionized the field of anatomy.
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, August 20, 199 lots of 15th-18th Century Printing, Americana & Fine Books, including a 1682 edition of Grotius' Rights of War & Peace ($1,500–2,500); the 1829 Philadelphia New General Atlas ($1,000–1,500); and the 1557 Estienne edition of Aeschylus…
