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A collection of Revolutionary War material including letters from General George Washington and…
A unique collection of books relating to the Quaker movement in England and the U.S. has sold for £…
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Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open will be the first U.S. exhibition dedicated to the Finnish artist and writer when it opens on June 28 at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Around 5,000 items including manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim have been acquired by the Library of Congress.
Highlights of Sotheby's' Fine Books and Manuscripts auction on June 26 include: * manuscript document on vellum, written by Manoel I, King of Portugal in a clear court hand, signed ("El Rey") conferring a noble title to Vasco da Gama, Evora, 29 December 1519, with pendant wax royal seal, in…
The Huntington will begin an extensive renovation of its Library building in spring 2026 to revitalize the Library’s exhibition halls and replace outdated back-of-house space with modern facilities serving both the Library and Art Museum.
The British Library has acquired the archive of pioneering Black playwright Mustapha Matura made up of 18 boxes of papers and born digital content on two hard drives and 176 floppy disks.The archive predominantly consists of literary drafts for all Matura’s plays, unpublished and unrealised scripts…
Leading Christie’s' Classic Week next month is Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene. Dialogo in perpuosito de la stella nuova, the first published work attributed to Galileo Galilei.
The J. Paul Getty Museum has been gifted 38 manuscript leaves made by Italian artists from the 12th to 17th centuries, largely for Christian choir books and depicting religious scenes mostly drawn from the lives of Jesus, Mary, and the saints.
Oxford Libararies Architecture by Geoffrey Tyack with photography by Dan Paton is not technically rare since it's due to be published later this week, but it is a marvellous volume of interest to readers of Fine Books & Collections.
More than a century after he was officially excluded, the British Library plans to symbolically reinstate the revoked Reader Pass that belonged to Oscar Wilde.
The largest collection of Cassandra Austen's artwork is on display at Jane Austen's House until September.The most well known of Cassandra’s surviving art are her family portraits, including her unfinished sketch of her sister Jane. The Art of Cassandra brings together 10 of her pieces,…
