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The Tucson-based gallerist's library which goes under the hammer at 11am Pacific Time today at PBA…
Running September 19 through February 1, 2026 L is for Look will focus on children's photobooks…
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The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced that for the first time researchers have found the title and author inside of a sealed scroll from Herculaneum.
Book Fairs
Books in Bloom is this year's theme for Firsts London, the UK's leading international rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in London's Chelsea running May 15 - 18 May. Held only a few days before the famous Chelsea Flower Show begins around the corner, the fair will celebrate all things…
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The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will mark the 300th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1726 Ascension Day cantata Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein (BWV 128) with a performance at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre on May 7.
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Bernard Shapero has been appointed as the new president of the The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) and will represent the association as its new President for the next two years.
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Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery is a new exhibition at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Delaware inspired by a 19th century essay by free Black journalist and educator William J. Wilson.
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Nearly 200 lots telling the writing story of Barbara Taylor Bradford go under the hammer at Doyle on May 7 including her favourite typewriter, paintings of her dogs, jewelry and rare first editions of her own works.
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Rare Book School has announced the lineup for its 2025 summer lecture series at the University of Virginia.For the first time, RBS is offering an option to attend a livestream of the in-person lectures via Zoom. Lecture recordings will be made available by fall 2025. Past lectures are also…
Auctions
Topping Bonhams' auction featuring 449 vintage NASA photographs from the collection of space historian Victor Martin-Malburet was a photograph by Neil Armstrong showing Buzz Aldrin on the Moon with the photographer, LM Eagle and Earth reflected in his gold-plated sun visor on Apollo 11 …
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The Huntington has acquired six major collections through the support of the Library Collectors’ Council including an archive of John Steinbeck material, previously unknown letters from a 17th-century Caribbean slave trader, and the first edition of the first color-printed medical text.
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will begin its 100th anniversary on May 8 with a year-long celebration that includes a major exhibition, a summer festival, book giveaways, and a limited edition library card.