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The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will return to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston…
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, has acquired a portrait miniature of Jane Austen’s…
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A new statue of Herman Melville will be unveiled on Friday 14 at the New Bedford Whaling Museum as part of its Melville in Our Seaport Weekend running August 13-16.The four-day literary and cultural series will honor Melville’s enduring influence and New Bedford’s defining role in shaping his most-…
A June 10, 1779, letter signed by George Washington and written in the hand of his aide-de-camp James McHenry is among the highlights of RR Auction's August Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction which ends August 12.
In the year marking the 125th anniversary of Marlene Dietrich’s birth, Rare Books Berlin is dedicating a special exhibition to the artist in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen.
A collection of Type 1 photographs from the personal collection of longtime official photographer of the San Francisco 49ers Michael Zagaris will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' Summer Platinum Night Sports Auction running August 21-23.The 27-lot Michael Zagaris Collection features…
The Morgan Library & Museum has received a $2.5m grant from the Lilly Endowment's Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative to support The Morgan Illuminated, a major project that will expand access to the Morgan's collection of medieval and Renaissance religious manuscripts through a new…
Claire White has been appointed as the Shaetlan Scriever and takes up a year-long residency with the National Library of Scotland this month.
Damaged Goods on view in the Huntington Art Gallery’s first floor brings together books and document marked by natural processes, human error, and intentional acts of censorship.
The top-selling item at the auction of Colonel Harland Sanders' personal collection at the Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville, Kentucky was Sanders' personal dandwritten datebook and working planner which sold for $30,000. More than a simple appointment book, the planner served as…
The Making of a Medieval Manuscript exhibition examining how medieval manuscripts were produced in Europe and the Mediterranean region opens at The J. Paul Getty Museum on August 4.It will feature Christian manuscripts from Europe, Armenia, and Ethiopia, as well as objects of Jewish and Muslim…
Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten autographed strategy blueprint for his 1858 Senate race against Stephen A. Douglas leads Heritage Auctions' The Alfred Orendorff Archive: Treasures from the Law Offices of Abraham Lincoln on July 30.
