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A £250,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will ensure access to a unique historic…
The Library of Congress has acquired the complete collection of music manuscripts of jazz…
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Friends of the Nations’ Libraries is leading a campaign to raise £90,000 to buy a 13th century Bible illuminated by the famed Sarum Master and to donate it to Salisbury Cathedral, returning it home after nearly eight centuries.
Christie’s' Classic Week Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 11 live auction in London will feature an important collection of music manuscripts from Beethoven, Wagner, Stravinsky, Verdi, Puccini, Ravel, Strauss, Mendelssohn and Debussy.
Photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) is the subject of a major retrospective at the MOP Foundation opening later this month.
Here's what I'll be keeping an eye on this week:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, November 12, 217 lots of Angling, Hunting, Travel & Exploration, including a number of large lots.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is an incunablula leaf from the Caxton Chaucer from The Wife of Bath's Prologue which appears at the Freeman's Hindman November 14 Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana auction in Chicago.
The lineup of the British Library's major exhibitions next year includes an exploration of the transformative, enriching and radical power of gardening in Britain, as well as the relationship between mapping and secrecy in a global context between the 9th and 21st centuries.
The New York Public Library has reopened its newly renovated 125th Street branch which has been closed since 2021 as part of a major capital investment through the Library’s Carnegie Renovation Program, primarily funded by the city of New York.
A range of items from MGM's movie The Wizard of Oz including scripts, contracts, and memorabilia including the ruby slippers will go under the hammer in Heritage Auction's December 7 Hollywood/Entertainment auction.
A new exhibition on view at The Grolier Club next month will be part conceptual art installation and part bibliophilic entertainment, featuring a collection of books that do not really exist. On view from December 5 through February 15, 2025, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive…
A rare original pen and ink drawing of Babar in a presentation copy of Le Voyage de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff is among the highlights of Bonhams’ Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on November 20 in London.
