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Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Genevieve (Gena) McNutt of B Street Books…
U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson feature in University…
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This week's Rare Book of the Week is actually multiple copies of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot which are coming to the ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair later this week. The provenance for these fine copies from the private collection of Scofield Thayer, the editor of The Dial…
Bonhams has promoted Ian Ehling to Head of Fine Books & Manuscripts, North America, after 40 yeas in the field appraising thousands of the rarest books to come to market, as well as advising prestigious collectors, libraries, and institutions.
Health and disease in the medieval world and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from infertility to constipation is the focus of a major new exhibition opening tomorrow at Cambridge University Library.
On March 18, President Donald J. Trump declassified previously-classified records within the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, following the issuance of Executive Order 14176 on January 23.
Heritage Auctions’ March 28 Historical Manuscripts features more than 600 letters written by Meyer Lansky, who along with Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was instrumental in building the National Crime Syndicate in the US, to his secret Israeli love, Zali de Toledo.
A century after opening its doors for the first time, the Charles Dickens Museum has welcomed Her Majesty The Queen to Dickens’s first family home at 48 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury, London.
A rare signed limited edition of Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist will be available for auction through Nate D. Sanders Auctions on March 27.
National Records of Scotland (NRS) has completed the return of thousands of documents that were stolen from its archives and from other UK institutions by a single individual between 1949 and 1980.NRS recovered around 3,100 items, mainly family, estate and business correspondence, that its…
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen by Malinda Russell
With this year marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Type Punch Matrix will be display the collection of books built by co-founder Rebecca Romney for her latest book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
