Arcana: Books on the Arts

Book People

Donna Marie Saunders

Book Collector Donna Marie Sanders on 19th and Early 20th Century Classics

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Winner Elena Wicker on Collecting American Military Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Lexicons

National Library of Ireland Acquires Additional Papers of Paul Durcan Archive

Americana

Samuel Gerock’s pocket-sized almanac for the year 1777

Archive of First-Person Revolutionary War Accounts Donated to the Museum of the American Revolution

Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, and George Washington Autograph Documents to Auction

Manuscript Leaf from First Draft of 'Atlas Shrugged' to Auction

Auctions

Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile, translated from the ancient French by Morris, sold for $22,000

Complete Kelmscott Press Collection Sold For $690,000

John Harris Cover Art, Pan Am Poster, Sondheim's Thesauruses: 2024 Auction Sleepers

Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments Sold For $5.04m

Maps

F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902,

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Visual Art

Al Milgrom, The Amazing Spider-Man #194 cover with Black Cat's first appearance

Black Cat’s Debut Leads Heritage’s January Comics & Comic Art Auction

Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records

Rare ‘Son of Frankenstein’, Disney, and Orson Welles’ 'Macbeth' Posters to Auction

Book Arts

Blue-Green Abelard

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Photographs

Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny with two Marquesas islanders in Butaritari, Gilbert Islands, c. July 1889.

New Exhibition Focuses on Robert Louis Stevenson's Final Years in the Pacific

James Baldwin Centennial Marked with Rare Photographs in New Exhibition

Frank Hurley's Photographs of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Lead Exploration Auction

Exhibitions

The exhibition at Notre Dame

Notre-Dame's Library of Medieval Manuscripts on Display

Charles Dickens Museum Celebrates Centenary By Displaying Previously Unseen Items

Oscar Wilde’s Palms in New Exhibition About Divination

Sponsored

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Rare Books

Washington Irving's politics notebook

Washington Irving Manuscripts and Tolkien Presentation Copy to Auction

Handbag Bible: Rare Book of the Week

Friends of the Nations’ Libraries Donates 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral