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The annual Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript African Americana sales was launched in March…
The Bodleian Libraries’ Season of the Natural World is a slate of exhibitions inspired by the world…
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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.
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 history of the modern Olympic movement including this set of three handwritten invitation letters…
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 the number of known surviving originals from a set of 16 to just six. London auctioneers Roseberys…
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.
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 Bonaparte and directs that the paperwork be sent to President Thomas Jefferson “without delay.”
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 propelled social change.
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 in the U.S., bringing more than 60 dealers and over 10,000 pieces of rare and historic printed…
Opening next month at the British Library, Fairy Tales will celebrate the iconic heroes, villains and creatures that populate the worlds of fairy tales.
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 addresses which is home to Steinway Hall and the world's thinnest skyscraper, designed by SHoP…
Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair returns to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from May 14 through May 17 with the theme of 'Revolution' to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.More than 100 international booksellers will mark the theme of all sorts of…
