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'Revolution' is the theme for Firsts London at the Saatchi Gallery this year featuring books,…
A signed 'Order of Battle' document issued by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson from HMS Victory…
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Five years after the inaugural sale, the fourth and final The Poetic Library of Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller will be held in Christie's Paris on March 24, nearly five years to the day after first auction which was marked by two pre-emptions by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside the Irish nationhood using rare books, manuscripts, letters, theatre pamphlets, political propaganda, and photographs.
An autograph album including a scarce Jane Austen signature with Austen family provenance is on offer in the online Fine Books, Atlases & Manuscripts auction at Bonhams finishing March 26.
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with more than 60 exhibitors offering a huge variety of vintage posters, postcards, letters, photographs, tickets, brochures, and advertisements.Held at The Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut, the…
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…
