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The Raab Collection has discovered and will offer for sale for Presidents’ Day a mysterious relic…
Signed in Paris by American diplomats Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe and French official…
Book Fairs
After its cancellation last year following the Los Angeles fires, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns next month.
Auctions
Freeman’s will begin its yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States tomorrow with its 153-lot Printed and Manuscript Americana auction spanning key moments in American history from the Revolutionary era to the 21st century.
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An archive of Louisa May Alcott material acquired by the Concord Free Public Library includes letters from the author to publisher Thomas Niles about the illustrations in the first edition of Little Women.
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The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of film star Olivia de Havilland.
Auctions
Sotheby’s' Visions of America auction series this month is led by its Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana sale which brings together autograph letters, manuscripts, and printed works tracing the American story from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War and into the 20th…
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Christie's' We The People: America at 250 auction offering foundational documents of American history in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries more than doubled its estimate to total $35,562,465.The top three lots of the sale were:
Book Fairs
Peter Harrington is due to offer a group of original manuscripts and typescripts for Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne which it describes as "the only obtainable manuscript material for any of the Pooh books".
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg is a new exhibition coming to the Morgan Library which features his writings and personal musical instruments.A collaboration between the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, on…
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An archive spanning six decades of Tom Verlaine’s working life including lyric drafts, handwritten notebooks, short stories, correspondence, and hundreds of hours of unreleased music by the Neon Boys, Television, and solo work has been acquired by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts…
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The Bodleian Libraries' forthcoming exhibition Pets & their People will explore why humans keep animals close, and what our evolving relationships with pets reveal about ourselves.