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The Bodleian Libraries' forthcoming exhibition Wonder of Birds will feature rare 10th century…
Bonhams' 50 Years Of Punk dedicated auction next week will focus on artefacts from bands such as…
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One of the world’s most significant Hindu scriptures has left the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and is on a historic tour across the United Kingdom.Marking the 200th anniversary of the Shikshapatri, the rare manuscript is traveling to major temples around the country in a collaboration…
A three-page typed letter signed by Virginia Woolf and a handwritten draft manuscript page by Theodore Roosevelt from his landmark series The Winning of the West will go under the hammer at Nate D. Sanders on March 26.
A new three-part BBC television series will explores the life and inspirations of the novelist, journalist and social campaigner Charles Dickens.Produced by Expectation, and made in partnership with The Open University, the series will air later this year on BBC Two and iPlayer as part of the…
A 1510 vellum warrant signed by King Henry VIII and a 1601 letter signed by his daughter Queen Elizabeth I excusing the Archbishop of York from attending her final Parliament are among the highlights at RR Auction's latest sale.Closing March 26, other leading lots in the auction include:
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
The Man of Steel's battle against a prehistoric Krypton creature called Doomsday chronicled in 1992's Superman #75 The Death of Superman is estimate to have sold more tham 6m copies.The set of original drawings is under the hammer at ComicConnect's online auction finishing April 12.
Five years after the inaugural sale, the fourth and final The Poetic Library of Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller will be held in Christie's Paris on March 24, nearly five years to the day after first auction which was marked by two pre-emptions by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside the Irish nationhood using rare books, manuscripts, letters, theatre pamphlets, political propaganda, and photographs.
An autograph album including a scarce Jane Austen signature with Austen family provenance is on offer in the online Fine Books, Atlases & Manuscripts auction at Bonhams finishing March 26.
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with more than 60 exhibitors offering a huge variety of vintage posters, postcards, letters, photographs, tickets, brochures, and advertisements.Held at The Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut, the…
