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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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Material spanning three centuries of American history will go under the hammer tommorrow at a Freeman's single-owner auction featuring rare newspapers, pamphlets, books, and ephemera tracing the development of printing and publishing in Philadelphia.The first paper mill in America was established…
A music manuscript of songs written on board ship during the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-42 captained by U.S. Navy Lt. Charles Wilkes has been acquired by The Library of Congress.The Ex. Ex. – as the scientific military expedition was informally called – mapped 1,500 miles of…
Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions opens tomorrow at The Morgan Library & Museum exploring the origins of tarot in Renaissance Italy and its enduring source of inspiration for modern artists.
RR Auction's Spirit of '76: America's 250th Anniversary Auction celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States featuring 76 lots of original manuscripts and artifacts associated with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander…
A rare printing of Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner published while the War of 1812 still raged is among the highlights of Heritage Auctions' Liberty & Legacy: Celebrating 250 Years of the American Spirit sale on June 25.
Philadelphia printer John Dunlap set the Declaration of Independence in type and printed an estimated 200 copies on the night of July 4, 1776, which spread the news of independence.
A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art showcases the impact of music on picture book artist Jerry Pinkney's life and work.Running through January 3, 2027, Soul, Sound, and Voice: The Art of Jerry Pinkney features more than 75 works from across Pinkney’s career, the…
This year’s Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting offered by the Bodleian Library’s Centre for the Study of the Book has been won by Hannah Wei.The annual prize is awarded to an undergraduate or postgraduate student of the University of Oxford or Oxford Brookes University for a collection of…
Rare How the Grinch Stole Christmas artwork, Chuck Jones and Looney Tunes material, and Peanuts classics all feature in the Heritage Auctions' June 19-21 The Art of Everything Cool Vol. VIII sale.
The original working text of Alcoholics Anonymous with extensive handwritten notations and edits by the authors will be the final lot of The Jim Irsay Collection: Icons of History sale at Christie's on July 1, 2026.
