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One of the world’s most significant Hindu scriptures has left the University of Oxford's Bodleian…
A three-page typed letter signed by Virginia Woolf and a handwritten draft manuscript page by…
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Christie's' Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection sale began this afternoon from 2pm BST. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, the oldest known book in private hands and one of the earliest books in existence sold for £3,065,000.
The Grolier Club has announced its Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 exhibition details which include one hundred years of Billy Budd, Lincoln's life in print, a look at imaginary books, a tribute to Mark Twain, a focus on visual and experimental poetry post-1960s, and a history of the development of New…
The first part of The Roger Hill Collection of key works of original comic art and ephemera will go under the hammer later this month at Heritage Auctions in its June 20-23 Comics & Comic Art auction. The collection, which includes artwork from titles that pre-date the Comics…
Goldin’s Pop Culture Elite Auction features a lineup of more than 80 comics, marking the first appearances of several iconic figures.Highlights include: * 1974 Incredible Hulk #181 which marks the first full appearance of Wolverine, with the Herb Trimpe cover on the issue portraying the "…
At Christie's London on Tuesday, June 11, 61 lots of Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection, including the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, the earliest known book in private hands, a papyrus codex (mid-third- to fourth-century) which seems to have served as an Easter lectionary.
Christine Keeler was 21 when she was thrust into the limelight, becoming a household name as the woman at the heart of the 1960s Profumo scandal that nearly brought down the British government.
Sotheby's New York will be offering the Rothschild copy of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, an extremely rare example of the earliest artist books, and one of the most valuable books of poetry ever offered on June 26.
Christie’s' forthcoming June 13-27 Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana online sale features a selection of color-plate books, manuscripts, early printed material, and literary classics.Highlights include: *
Mountains and plains and adventure: William & May Morris and Iceland has opened at their Kelmscott Manor country home in Oxfordshire, coinciding with the centenary of May Morris’s first trip to Iceland.
Sotheby’s has announced the auction of the Shem Tov Bible, one of the most significant medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, with an estimate of $5m-$7m.Written by the scholar Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312 in Soria, Castile, the Shem Tov Bible is a masterpiece of scribal art from the Golden…
