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Peter Harrington is making its first international foray from London to New York with the opening of a flagship gallery at 35 East 67th Street, just off Madison Avenue.
At Chiswick Auctions on Monday, March 31, 473 lots of Photographica, with an 1880s album containing thirty-two albumen photographs of Rio de Janeiro sharing the top estimate of £3,000–5,000 with a group of fifty-six carbon prints made by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London between…
This week's Rare Book of the Week is actually multiple copies of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot which are coming to the ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair later this week. The provenance for these fine copies from the private collection of Scofield Thayer, the editor of The Dial…
Bonhams has promoted Ian Ehling to Head of Fine Books & Manuscripts, North America, after 40 yeas in the field appraising thousands of the rarest books to come to market, as well as advising prestigious collectors, libraries, and institutions.
Health and disease in the medieval world and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from infertility to constipation is the focus of a major new exhibition opening tomorrow at Cambridge University Library.
On March 18, President Donald J. Trump declassified previously-classified records within the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, following the issuance of Executive Order 14176 on January 23.
Heritage Auctions’ March 28 Historical Manuscripts features more than 600 letters written by Meyer Lansky, who along with Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was instrumental in building the National Crime Syndicate in the US, to his secret Israeli love, Zali de Toledo.
A century after opening its doors for the first time, the Charles Dickens Museum has welcomed Her Majesty The Queen to Dickens’s first family home at 48 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury, London.
A rare signed limited edition of Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist will be available for auction through Nate D. Sanders Auctions on March 27.
National Records of Scotland (NRS) has completed the return of thousands of documents that were stolen from its archives and from other UK institutions by a single individual between 1949 and 1980.NRS recovered around 3,100 items, mainly family, estate and business correspondence, that its…
