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The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) will return to the Park Avenue…
Shakespeare specialist Professor Emma Smith from the University of Oxford will give the 2026…
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For the first time in 500 years two prayer books belonging to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn have been reunited and displayed together at Hever Castle in Kent, England.
Christie’s is inviting foodies and collectors to explore four centuries of gastronomy and its history through a selection of books from the library of Baron Pierre de Crombrugghe.
It has been 20 years since BIBLIO was founded in Asheville, NC. Its mission was to give antiquarian and used bookstores the tools needed to survive and grow in a digital world. Since then, BIBLIO has grown to become a major independent marketplace, offering booksellers a global reach to market and…
Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books is returning to TEFAF Maastricht in 2023 (9-19 March) with a display of museum-quality manuscripts, miniatures, and early printed books from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This year’s highlights are a Franciscan devotional book shining with gold, a narrative…
A Stephen Hawking autograph has sold for $18,813, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
Accompanied by a transmittal letter signed by his wife, Jane Hawking, dated October 15, 1983, it reads in part: "Thank you for your courteous letter of 29 September requesting my husband's autograph. After many…
The New-York Historical Society, the city’s first museum, presents Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). Walker’s series of 15 prints responds to the two-volume anthology Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion first published in 1866.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s famous invention, the telephone. While scientific history is mired in controversy over who actually devised the first electronic speech-transmitting device, it was Bell who received the US patent for the telephone, on March 7, 1876.…
The Ticknor Society in Boston will begin accepting submissions on March 1, 2023 for the Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, which was created to encourage and recognize those in New England who have been inspired to compile, curate, and own a book…
A rare complete set of country-of-origin Sean Connery James Bond posters will be auctioned by Propstore in the UK as part of a sale of more than 570 film and music posters. The sale runs until March 2.
Among the James Bond Highlights are:
* a UK quad-sized poster for Connery's 007 debut in Dr No…
Sotheby's will bring the Codex Sassoon - the earliest, most complete Hebrew Bible extant, dating to the late ninth century - to auction in May.
