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Current Events & Trends | September 20, 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Handling Your Books

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How do you handle your rare books and collections? Like Harvard, of course.

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Maps

F. E. Gallup. Gallup's Map of Texas, Showing Oil and Gas Fields, Pipe Lines and Refineries
Maps of Texas: Five Rare Books for Collectors
The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’
Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Visual Art

A Persuasion engraving, Louisa falling on the Cobb, Joan Hassall, wood engraving, 1961
Jane Austen's Illustrators Celebrated in New Anniversary Exhibition
Eric Carle's Food Drawings on Display
New Art Installation Celebrates Magna Carta Anniversary

Book People

Nick Cave
Nick Cave Donates Thousands of His Books to Secondhand Charity Bookshop
Bright Young Collectors: Joshua Shelley
Graham Moss of Incline Press Dies at 77

Exhibitions

Inside the new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum
Miriam Margolyes Launches New 'Showtime!' Exhibition at Charles Dickens Museum
Handwritten Letters by Elizabeth II to Feature in New Exhibition on the Queen's Fashion
Poet Richard Aldington Celebrated in New Exhibition

Photographs

Marilyn Monroe’s signed photograph
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Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate
Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

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Evergreen Review at PBA Galleries
Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries
Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West
Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Rare Books

Franz Kafka autograph letter signed "K", Prague, December 1921, to his close friend, the physician Robert Klopstock
Melbourne Rare Book Fair: Five Rare Books for Collectors
Library of Longleat House Manuscripts at Frieze Masters 2025
Illuminated Manuscripts Show Role of the Psalms in Medieval Life in New Exhibition

Book Arts

Reconstructed fragment of a bronze military diploma from Sardinia, issued by the emperor Trajan to a sailor on a warship. 113/14 CE
New AI Tool Could Help Reconstruct Missing Ancient Inscriptions
Mark Gatiss Headlines as Antiquarian Bookseller in New TV Crime Drama 'Bookish'
Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title

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Washington Irving Handwritten Manuscript for "Legend of the House of Omeya"
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