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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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The Getty Research Institute's new exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives opens today exploring queer representation through a range of materials dating from 1900 to the present day.
Today, on the 155th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens, a previously unpublished photograph of the sale of his goods at his Gad's Hill home goes on show at the London museum where he once lived.
Ten handwritten letters by Swedish Hollywood star Greta Garbo, written in Swedish during the 1940s and 1950s, go under the hammer at Stockholms Auktionsverk on June 10.
The Bodleian Libraries’ exhibition Treasured which opens today features a range of the most fascinating books, manuscripts and items in its collections, including works by Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and JRR Tolkien.Running through October 26 at the Weston Library in Oxford, it focuses on the…
The only known photographs of mathematician and early computer programmer Ada Lovelace will go under the hammer next week at Bonhams' Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts online sale.
A green leather portfolio, believed to have housed the documents relating to the Louisiana Purchase and exhibited only once before in the United States nearly two decades ago, goes on public view at Sotheby’s New York today until June 11.It is being showcased alongside other Napoleonic treasures…
The British Library has acquired five exceptional medieval manuscripts from the private library at Longleat House, providing fresh insight into Jewish-Christian relations, the administration of a medieval town, theological debates, and medieval devotional art.
Going on show during Art Basel later this month is Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books' new exhibition Timeless Couture: The Art of Dress in Medieval Manuscripts.
RR Auction’s Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring World War II and Military sale focuses on the closing chapter of World War II with documents chronicling the surrender of Nazi Germany and the formal end of the conflict.
A 1994 Fleer Marvel Masterpieces No. 115 Spider-Man original trading card artwork, preliminary sketch, and PSA 10 card by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt topped Heritage Auctions’ Deadcode’s Debut Release Trading Cards and Original Art auction when it sold for $81,250.
