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One of Vincent van Gogh's finest portrayals of books will go under the hammer at Sotheby's later…
The National Library of Scotland is taking its collections on tour with the launch of its new…
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One of Dublin’s biggest celebations, the Bram Stoker Festival is back with more than 50,000 people expected to enjoy activities across the city from October 27 to October 30.Highlights include:
Anchored around some of its most acclaimed medieval manuscripts, The Morgan Library & Museum will present Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality, an exhibition examing the economic revolution in medieval Europe and charting the expanding role and perception of money during that period.
Hindman will offer a complete copy of Edward S. Curtis’s seminal The North American Indian, arguably the most complete ethnographic record of the native peoples of North America ever assembled in its Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection sale, the first in a pair of back-to-back Books…
When the Folger Theatre begins performances of The Winter’s Tale on November 4, ticket holders will be greeted by Anke Neumann’s ethereal and symbolic 15-foot-tall hanging sculpture, Cloud of Imagination.Installed in August at the Folger Shakespeare Library, it connects the newly constructed east…
Unseen photos from Bournemouth’s 1910 International Aviation Meeting, during which Rolls-Royce co-founder Charles Rolls plunged to his death when his plane broke up mid-air, go under the hammer with Richard Winterton Auctioneers on November 6. The Edwardian album documenting one of Britain’s…
The Epistola de insulis nuper inventis, the earliest obtainable edition of Christopher Columbus’s letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella announcing his “discovery” of the American continent, has been sold for $3,922,000, 392 percent of its low estimate.
A new exhibition will showcase the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of ancient Egyptian manuscripts bearing spells from the Book of the Dead.The objects in 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead' exhibition, which originally belonged to the burials of eight individuals, are all drawn from the Getty Museum…
Early printings, illustrated books, Presidential autographs, and a Poe thriller go under the hammer at Quinn’s Rare Book, Autograph and Print Auction on October 26. The scientific and historical section includes several volumes on American exploration. A complete set of the Pacific Railroad…
Celebrations of the centenary of the publication of Le Diable au corps by Raymond Radiguet continue on November 22 when Christie's Rare Books and Manuscripts sale in Paris will the auction the autograph manuscript of Radiguet who died at the age of 20 of typhoid.
A major new exhibition at the British Museum will look at what it was like to be in one of the most elite fighting forces of all time. Objects include letters written on papyri by soldiers from Roman Egypt and the Vindolanda tablets, some of the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain,…
