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The typewriter that Cecil B. DeMille used for his 1914 movie The Squaw Man goes under the hammer at…
A new exhibition this summer will explore Charles Dickens's theatrical interests and the prolific…
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In its online Books and Manuscripts sale From Grolier to Godard ending today Sotheby’s is presenting 15 original drawings by Antoine Saint-Exupéry created in Algiers between late 1943 and early 1944, most of them previously unseen.
The first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language has been loaned by Westminster Abbey to St Davids Cathedral where it has gone on public display for the first time this week. The translation of the Bible into Welsh was a key project of the 16th and 17th century…
Coming to auction at Sotheby’s later this month will be the Thirteenth Amendment (estimate: $8m-$12m) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimate: $3m-$5m, both signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The documents will be on public view at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries in New York June 20-25,…
RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale features items related to Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison, and Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd.
The Huntington Library’s new exhibition series in Los Angeles opens June 21 with a focus on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and in particular the library's own Ellesemere Chaucer.
Bartholomaeus’s De proprietatibus rerum printed in Cologne in 1481 by Johanem koelhoff de lubeck leads Bellmans' Printed Books & Manuscripts sale on July 16 with an estimate of £3,000 -£5,000.
A document signed by Reich President Karl Dönitz authorizing the start of surrender negotiations with Allied forces in the final days of World War II sold for $166,333 at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.
On the 97th anniversary of his birth, Christie’s Maurice Sendak: Artist, Collector, Connoisseur auction made a total of $4,872,494. These sales will support the Sendak Fellowship, a residency program at The Maurice Sendak Foundation, a nonprofit organization that encourages,…
Australia’s longest-running and most popular book exhibition, World of the Book, is celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary at State Library Victoria in Melbourne.Two recent acquisitions are on public display for the first time in Australia, a medieval scribal knife dated to the 15th century,…
The Getty Research Institute's new exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives opens today exploring queer representation through a range of materials dating from 1900 to the present day.
