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The entire United States Constitution is to go on display for the first time as part of the…
Highlights from Forum Auctions' Books and Works on Paper online sale on September 11 featuring the…
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Patrick O'Brian's autograph manuscript draft for chapters I and II of 'XXI', the 21st and last, incomplete, Aubrey-Maturin novel, is the first in our new regular series 'Rare Book of the Week'.It comes up for auction at Christie's on July 10 in its Valuable Books and Manuscripts sale with…
Fanatics and Sotheby’s have announced a new collaboration to offer collectors access to the rarest trading cards across all sports on the market valued at $100,000 and above.
An August 31, 1945, dated draft of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the final iteration of which was signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, leads Quinn's Auction Galleries' July 16 Summer Rare Book Auction.
Just in time for its Alice's Day celebrations this weekend, the Bodleian Libraries has announced the acquisition of two photographic portraits of Alice Liddell by Charles Dodgson/'Lewis Carroll' as part of the library’s growing photography collection.
In the Sotheby’s sale of rare contemporary printings of the three founding documents of the United States, one of the earliest obtainable printings of The Declaration of Independence has sold for $3.36m.
Unpublished and unseen by scholars, the document was acquired from the heirs of an American collector who purchased it during the Great Depression, and is on exhibit at The Raab Collection for the Fourth of July.
The 1986 typed document signed by both the Queen frontman and his former girlfriend Mary Austin went for £6,930 in the latest Autographs and Memorabilia sale at Chiswick Auctions. Dated 17 June 1986, the legal licence references "the building known as 12 Stafford Terrace, London, W8", the house…
The British Museum in London has reopened its circular Reading Room for visitors with free short tours from July 23.
The Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction running until July 10 includes more than 1,000 lots including a Revolutionary War discharge certificate signed by George Washington on June 30, 1783, and countersigned by Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. with an estimate of $10,000.
The papers of talk show host and sex therapist Ruth Westheimer have been acquired by the Library of Congress and are now opening for research in the Library’s Manuscript Division.Westheimer became a household name as 'Dr. Ruth' in the 1980s, filling radio airwaves, television screens, and…
