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The Creation of the Sun and the Moon (detail) from the Historical Bible, about 1360 –70, Master of Jean de Mandeville (French, active 1350–70). Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment.
The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages at Getty
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The George Washington clip
Mysterious George Washington Historical Document Surfaces for Presidents Day
The Raab Collection has discovered and will offer for sale for Presidents’ Day a mysterious relic of a long-lost document in the hand of George Washingt
James Monroe, Robert R. Livingston, and Francois Barbe-Marbois documents signed for the Ratification of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty (estimate: $20,000+)
Louisiana Purchase Signed Documents Sold for $82,394 at RR Auction
Signed in Paris by American diplomats Robert R.
Anwar E Suhaili, The Fables of Pilpay
Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition
Opening next month at the British Library, Fairy Tales will celebrate the iconic heroes, villains and creatures that populate the worlds of fairy tales.&nb
Inside Bonhams' new offices
Bonhams Opens New U.S. Headquarters
Bonhams has opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street in New York to the public.
One of The Huntington’s annotated July 1776 printings of the Declaration of Independence and a 1936 acoustic guitar owned by Woody Guthrie
New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus on how land has shaped life in America since 177
Tracey Emin's Six Turkish Tales with autographed letter to Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe
Shapero Rare Books to Sell Personal Library of Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe
The library of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight and her late husband the writer Alan Sillitoe features 185 inscribed books from authors including Robert Graves, Yehuda Amichai, and Margaret A
Little Nell – the beautiful child in her gentle slumber- tide by Samuel Williams. Through her deathbed scene, Dickens channelled his grief for the death of his 17-year-old sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth. Dickens’s feedback to Williams was to make Nell childish and her surroundings grim to create a starker contrast.
Unpublished Charles Dickens Fan Letter Opens New Exhibition on Women in His Life
A new exhibition opening today at the London home of Charles Dickens brings tog
The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, 1415 Prayers for the Morning Services of Rosh Hashana
Rothschild Vienna Mahzor 15th Century Hebrew Prayerbook Sold for $6.4m
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6.4 million.
A section of the errata slip for James Joyce’s Ulysses
Printing Errors Celebrated in Upcoming Yale Library Exhibition
The first British edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the 'Wicked Bible' will be among the hundreds of printed mistakes and errata lists on view in a new exhibition opening at