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During this advent season, Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books will be opening the doors to the gallery at the heart of Basel to exhibit some extremely rare examples of illumination and decoration from the middle ages and the Renaissance. Protected from light and other hazards, the illuminations found in…
Philadelphia - The day following the Constitution’s completion and signing, George Washington sent a copy of the landmark document to Thomas Jefferson, along with this personal letter. The letter will be offered in Freeman’s November 15 Books and Manuscripts: Rare Americana auction (Lot 14;…
A collection of Opera scores and books from the Library of the late 7th Earl of Harewood are to be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on November 23.
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New York – A new exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York City—America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles—traces the creative history of advertising through fun and movable objects. Animated Advertising: 200 Years of Premiums, Promos, and Pop-ups features eye-catching and…
The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums has presented one of its Guardians of Culture and Lifeways International Awards to the Library of Congress and former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo for Living Nations, Living Words, Harjo’s signature project as the nation’s first…
The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives presents a new exhibition, “Nature of the Book,” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History November 11. “Nature of the Book” will be on display through March 17, 2024.
Dallas - Every day is Christmas for Mary and Ron Seeley. As owners of America's most extensive collection of presidential Christmas memorabilia, the Seeleys have seen pieces from their assemblage displayed at the White House on two occasions and exhibited at 10 presidential libraries. Including…
Dallas - It's a question often asked by the outside observer perplexed by the ever-increasing interest in and value of original pages of comic-book art: Why? Yet the answer remains straightforward; the explanation is perhaps even obvious. Because these are the raw, handmade images that…
Painted by a single artist, the Códice Maya de México is the oldest surviving book in the Americas and records the movements of the planet Venus across its cycles as Morning and Evening Star, a journey reckoned to take 584 days from the vantage point of Earth and calculated in this book across 104…
The Brontë Society is pleased to announce the permanent appointment of Rebecca Yorke as Director of the Brontë Society and Brontë Parsonage Museum. Rebecca, who first joined the Museum in early 2015 in a marketing and communications role, has been a member of the organisation’s senior management…
