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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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Incline Press, one of the few surviving private press printers in the UK using entirely letterpress printing from metal type, has published The Tragical Comedy or the Comical Tragedy of Punch & Judy plus two other pamphlets.
Believed to be the earliest extant photographic portrait of a First Lady, the daguerreotype was the subject of fierce competition in Sotheby’s' latest sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana, and sold for ten times its estimate at $456,000. It is the most valuable American…
Special planting ceremonies held in the United States are hoped to result in the regeneration of an historic tree admired by groundbreaking essayist and lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson.
At Sotheby's London on Tuesday, July 2, 73 lots of Important Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of the Late Ernst Boehlen, including a fragmentary bifolium from the Sacramentary of St. Boniface, likely written in eighth-century Northumbria (£250,000–350,000).
One of only two copies of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane and Other Poems in private hands has sold at auction at Sotheby's for $420,000.
At Heritage Auctions' part 1 sale of The William A. Strutz Library an inscribed copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was sold for $425,000, a presentation copy of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit went for $300,000, and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or Life in…
The Vatican Library has announced that it will begin awarding nontransferable NFTs (nonfungible tokens) to supporters of its manuscript collections.The project in collaboration with Japanese IT services provider NTT DATA is currently only available to Italian donors to the library which holds…
A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio which was sold by London rare book dealer Peter Harrington last year has debuted at its new home as one of the highlights of the new Namedropping exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Tasmania.
Doyle's auction of the Collection of Stephen Sondheim included a wide range of items from the composer and lyricist's Manhattan townhouse and country home in Roxbury, Connecticut, including various reference works.
Thomas Taylor's original watercolour illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has sold for $1.9 million at Sotheby’s to become the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction. The illustration was chased by four bidders on the phone and online for nearly 10 minutes…
