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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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Highlights of the Potter & Potter Vintage Posters auction on March 26 include:Job (Paris: F. Champenois, 1898) Classic Art Nouveau advertising poster by Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939) showing a woman with a cigarette rolled with Job papersPeaceful Paradise Valley/Northern Pacific Railway (St…
Four national libraries across Ireland and the United Kingdom have been awarded €750,000 through the UK-Ireland Cultural Co-operation Programme for Across These Islands: Shared Histories, Shared Futures, a first-of-its-kind partnership to widen access to their national collections, deepen research…
Shetland Museum and Archives will host the final instalment of The National Library of Scotland’s centenary programme later this month with a focus on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid.Running March 28 through June 20, Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay will focus on the years that MacDiarmid (pen name…
Carte de Visites highlights of the Freeman's The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography auction on March 20 include:* A group of 14 Carte de Visites of Abraham Lincoln and familyFeaturing Lincoln with his son Tad, five CDVs of Lincoln, four CDVs of Mary Todd Lincoln, and a…
Campaigners working to ensure that the Lake District home of William Wordsworth remains open to the public have announced a successful conclusion to their work.
Edinburgh Book Fair returns this week to the country's capital running March 20-21 at the Intercontinental Edinburgh The George Hotel.Entry is free to the fair which is Scotland's largest rare book fair and features dozens of specialist booksellers from around the country. It is organised by the…
The annual Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript African Americana sales was launched in March 1996 by Wyatt Houston Day who was the specialist for the first 22 sales.On March 19, the ninth Printed & Manuscript African Americana sale handled by Swann’s Americana specialist Rick Stattler will…
The Bodleian Libraries’ Season of the Natural World is a slate of exhibitions inspired by the world around us beginning with Pets & their People which is currently running through September 27. These exhibitions at the Weston Library in Oxford will celebrate the beauty of the natural world…
The original typescript scroll first draft of Jack Kerouac's On The Road has become the most expensive literary manuscript to sell at auction.Christie's had initially given the 1951 manuscript a $2.5m-$4m estimate following its sale for $2.4m in 2001 but it eventually sold for $12.135m in the Jim…
A first edition of Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, an angry letter about edits to his publisher, and a Lincoln funeral train invitation are among the highlights of Heritage Auctions’ Extraordinary Dan Madsen Collection auction on March 18.
