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The July 8 Valuable Books and Manuscripts sale at Christie's will feature a pair of 1912…
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Sir Alec Guinness’s annotated copy of Hamlet, Virginia Woolf's copy of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, and Beethoven's autograph sketches for the overture Die Weihe des Hauses will go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Michael Alexandratos, who splits time between Sydney, Australia and Athens, Greece. Michael won the 2025 Australian National Book Collecting Prize for collectors aged 35 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
The top lot in Christie's' July 8 Valuable Books & Manuscripts sale is a medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old French Arthurian tradition circa 1290-1315 with an estimate of £1.2m–£1.5m.The Clermont-Tonnerre Grail codex, which is in a 17th century green velvet binding and known as the…
A signed 1885 contract between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show has sold for $168,213 at RR Auction’s The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz.The one-page agreement signed June 6, 1885, formalized Sitting Bull’s appearance in the ‘Buffalo Bill Wild West Show’ for a four-…
The New York Public Library has announced the acquisition of the professional and personal archive of journalist and bestselling author Gay Talese.
Coming to auction at PBA Galleries later this week is a rare first edition of Emblems Engraved on Wood by Eric Gill.
Catawiki has announced the upcoming auction of a copy of the 1543 first edition of Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, the foundational work of modern anatomy and Renaissance printing, offered with no reserve price.
The British Museum has released the first details of what it describes as "its exhibition of the century" when the Bayeux Tapestry will open to the public in London on September 10 through July 11, 2027.
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library has announced the launch of The Hispanic Society Poetry Center which will also house the archive of Chilean poet David Rosenmann Taub (1927-2023). Poet and scholar Ezequiel Zaidenwerg has been appointed as inaugural Head of the Poetry Center, the first…
A collection of rare books, fine writing implements, and library furniture belonging to Australian broadcaster John Laws is going under the hammer at Bonhams Australia.The John Laws CBE Collection sale running May 26 through June 9 focuses on the private collection formed over five decades by one…
