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The entire United States Constitution is to go on display for the first time as part of the…
The fourth annual David Ruggles Prize to support and encourage international young book collectors…
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The Raab Collection has acquired a Thomas Jefferson document of interest to bibliophiles everywhere: not only is it an autograph letter signed by Jefferson in which the third president orders books for his legendary library at Monticello, but the location of this original letter had been…
The manuscript, valued at £800,000 and at risk of leaving the country unless a UK buyer can be found, was previously unknown to scholars as it has been in private ownership for at least 300 years. It contains the signature of the former king, who ruled France from 1350 to 1364, during the Hundred…
The story of Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) captured the imagination of the Romantics. He was a genius young poet who forged a medieval manuscript, and yet faced with rejection by Horace Walpole and the establishment, committed suicide in a Holborn garret at the age of 17.
Nancy K Boehm, President of the Grolier Club, has announced that Director Eric Holzenberg will retire from the institution in 2024, after 30 years of leadership of America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts.
A world-class collection of political cartoons and caricatures created between 1690 and 2022 has been donated to UCLA Library by Michael and Susan Kahn.
A 4-page order of service booklet from Washington Cathedral where Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last Sunday sermon on March 31, 1968, comes to sale on November 14 at Hake’s Auctions.
To mark the 2024 centennial of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York will open a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). Widely recognized as an authority on illuminated manuscripts and…
RR Auction's November Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction features a special section dedicated to JFK's presidency and early career, including his diary, an original window from the Texas School Book Depository, and a section of the picket fence from the 'grassy knoll'.
A curated collection of 17th and 18th century manuscripts documenting life in colonial New England will be featured at Doyle Auction’s November 7 sale of rare books, autographs, and maps.
The Jill Newhouse Gallery in New York will present the first exhibition in the United States dedicated to the watercolors of French artist and writer George Sand, November 8 – 30.
