Fine Books & Collections

Unseen Early Italian Aviation Photography to Auction A rare group of early aviation glass lantern slides documenting the pioneering long distance flights of Italian pilot Carlo Francesco 'Francis' Lombardi will go under the hammer at Roseberys London on...

Unseen Early Italian Aviation Photography to Auction
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Joshua O’Driscoll Appointed Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at The Morgan The Morgan Library & Museum has announced the appointment of Dr. Joshua O’Driscoll as Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.O’Driscoll joined the Morgan ...

Joshua O’Driscoll Appointed Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at The Morgan
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Charlotte Brontë, Bennett Cerf, and Henry D. Thoreau Letters: February Books Roundup Our monthly look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.

Charlotte Brontë, Bennett Cerf, and Henry D. Thoreau Letters: February Books Roundup
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Unseen Doodles by Queen Elizabeth II to Auction A handwritten letter written by Queen Elizabeth II as a child is estimated to sell for £4,000 when it appears at Hansons tomorrow.The one-page note is addressed to the head housemaid at Royal Lodge in...

Unseen Doodles by Queen Elizabeth II to Auction
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Legerdemain: Five Rare Books for Collectors Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' Literature of Legerdemain auction featuring the collection of magic bibliographer Stephen Forrester include:* Kellar in His Latest Mystery. Self DecapitationSto...

Legerdemain: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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Senate House Library Named as Official Charity Partner for Firsts London Senate House Library will be the official Charity Partner for Firsts London 2026.Senate House Library will be curating a stand at Firsts that showcases its various collections charting social and poli...

Senate House Library Named as Official Charity Partner for Firsts London
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Getty's Egyptian Book of the Dead Exhibition Returns The J. Paul Getty Museum’s The Egyptian Book of the Dead exhibition will return next month to showcase the Getty collection of ancient Egyptian manuscripts inscribed with spells and illustrated scenes...

Getty's Egyptian Book of the Dead Exhibition Returns
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Stevenson Lecture 2026 is 'Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books' Shakespeare specialist Professor Emma Smith from the University of Oxford will give the 2026 Stevenson Lecture tomorrow at Senate House in London on the subject Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Coll...

Stevenson Lecture 2026 is Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books
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New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Returns for 66th Edition The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) will return to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from April 30 through May 3, 2026.More than 170 exhibitors from around the world, ...

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Returns for 66th Edition
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Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale The 1796 edition of Amelia Simmons' American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables... is regarded as the first cookery book published in the US by an American author, ...

Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale
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First Book Printed in the Republic of Texas Heads Texana Auction An 1837 English translation of Santa Anna's second-in-command's account of his conduct in the Texas Revolution will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' Februarty 26 Historical Manuscripts & Texa...

First Book Printed in the Republic of Texas Heads Texana Auction
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Karsh's Apollo 11, Cabinet Cards, and 'The People of India': The Week in Rare Books 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.

Karsh's Apollo 11, Cabinet Cards, and The People of India: The Week in Rare Books
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Gil Evans's Jazz Archive Acquired by Library of Congress The Library of Congress has acquired the complete collection of music manuscripts of jazz bandleader, arranger, pianist and composer Gil Evans.

Gil Evans's Jazz Archive Acquired by Library of Congress
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Future of Priceless 'Haud Nominandum' LGBTQ+ Collection Secured A £250,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will ensure access to a unique historic archive of LGBTQ+ literature held at Senate House Library in London.

Future of Priceless 'Haud Nominandum' LGBTQ+ Collection Secured
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£279,800 Death Bed Photo Tops Oscar Wilde Sale At Bonhams’ sale of material relating to the life of Oscar Wilde the top lot was the last photograph of the writer on his death bed on November 30 1900 by Gilbert Maurice which sold for £279,800 follw...

£279,800 Death Bed Photo Tops Oscar Wilde Sale
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Food Writer Nicola Miller on Collecting Cookbooks Over the last year I have been reducing my collection because I've been Swedish Death Cleaning. More than 1000 cookbooks and books on food have been sold, donated or binned, the latter only if they ar...

Food Writer Nicola Miller on Collecting Cookbooks
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Original Joe Shuster Action Comics Cover Art and Frank Frazetta Artwork to Auction The cover of Action Comics No. 21 drawn by Joe Shuster who co-created the character Superman with Jerry Siegel leads Heritage Auctions' February 27–March 1 Comic Art sale.A Shuster-penciled Action Com...

Original Joe Shuster Action Comics Cover Art and Frank Frazetta Artwork to Auction
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Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln's Last Message to Congress to Auction Items related to the Gettysburg Address and Abraham Lincoln's final Annual Message to Congress will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' Historical Manuscripts sale on February 26.

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln's Last Message to Congress to Auction
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Official Invitations From 1896 Athens Olympics to Auction A rare group of surviving documents connected to the first modern Olympic Games are being offered as part of RR Auction’s Olympics Auction closing tomorrow.The sale includes 340 lots spanning the hist...

Official Invitations From 1896 Athens Olympics to Auction
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Rediscovered Original 'The Jungle Book' Illustrations to Auction Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book long thought lost have been rediscovered and will be offered at Roseberys next month.Extraordinarily rare, they increase th...

Rediscovered Original The Jungle Book Illustrations to Auction
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Mark Twain: Five Rare Books for Collectors Highlights from PBA Galleries' Fine Literature/With Mysteries & Sci-fi/Queer Literature & Art/Beats & the Counterculture include these Mark Twain volumes:The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and C.D. Warner (...

Mark Twain: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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Hard Case Crime Releases Out-of-Print Joyce Carol Oates Thrillers Charles Ardai, editor of Hard Case Crime,spoke with us over email about the three volumes of Joyce Carol Oates (writing as Rosamund Smith) thrillers the pulp mystery imprint is re-publishing this year...

Hard Case Crime Releases Out-of-Print Joyce Carol Oates Thrillers
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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 Washington containing four enigmatic words.

Mysterious George Washington Historical Document Surfaces for Presidents Day
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Louisiana Purchase Signed Documents Sold for $82,394 at RR Auction Signed in Paris by American diplomats Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe and French official Barbé-Marbois, the document acknowledges receipt of the treaty and conventions ratified by Napoleon Bona...

Louisiana Purchase Signed Documents Sold for $82,394 at RR Auction
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Getty Museum Focuses on Photography and the Black Arts Movement Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985, on view at The J. Paul Getty Museum running February 24 through June 14 will look at the many ways photography fostered Black empowerment and propel...

Getty Museum Focuses on Photography and the Black Arts Movement
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Women Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: Five Rare Books for Collectors Highlights of Bernard Quaritch's new Women Printers, Publishers, Booksellers catalogue celebrating the contribution of women to the book trade in Europe across four centuries, from the early 1500s to ...

Women Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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That's British Library, not Museum. Apologies.

Ephemera Society of America Fair Returns in March Ticket stubs, maps, playbills, postcards, political buttons, forgotten photographs and more will return to the Ephemera Society of America's flagship Ephemera Fair.It is the largest event of its kind ...

Ephemera Society of America Fair Returns in March
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Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition Opening next month at the British Museum, Fairy Tales will celebrate the iconic heroes, villains and creatures that populate the worlds of fairy tales.

Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition
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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.The new U.S. flagship aims to serve as a public cultural destination in one of the city's celebrated addr...

Bonhams Opens New U.S. Headquarters
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