Bygone Books

Photographs

Journalists and protesters riding in the back of a pickup truck while covering a Chicano Movement protest ca. 1968-1975.

Library of Congress Acquires Major Chicano Movement Photography and Manuscript Collection

Buzz Aldrin Portrait, V2, and First Earthrise Top Bonhams Moon Photo Sale

Photo-Based Work Inspired by Emily Dickinson's Garden on View

Exhibitions

Frédéric Chopin, Valse, autograph manuscript, between 1815 and1849, recto

Works by Frédéric Chopin Including Recently Discovered Waltz at the Morgan

National Archives to Display Historic Volumes in Declaration of Independence Celebration

Phillis Wheatley's Poems and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Featured in The Afric-American Picture Gallery

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

Harvard Law School's original Magna Carta

Harvard Law School’s Magna Carta 'Copy' Authenticated as Original

Black Book of Hours: Rare Book of the Week

New Rare Book Shop Philip Salmon & Company Opens Its Doors in Boston

Maps

John Rocque’s Plan of The House, Gardens, Park & Hermitage of Their Majesties at Richmond; and of their R.H. the Prince of Wales & the Princes Royal at Kew

Maps of 18th Century Gardens: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Sunderland Collection Rare Cartographical Loan on Display

16th Century Cartographer's Library Recreated at TEFAF Maastricht

Americana

Lincoln's autograph sum book leaf

Major Collection of Lincoln Manuscripts, Letters, and Campaign Ephemera to Auction

Rare Henry David Thoreau Handwritten Manuscript from 'Cape Cod' to Auction

Broadside Announcing Martial Law During 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Auction

Book People

The Nelson manuscripts at Firsts London

Horatio Nelson's Secret Codes and Weather Log at Firsts London

Edward Gorey, Bibliotherapy in the Bronx, and Mark Twain: May Books Roundup

University of Iowa Librarian Jenna Silver on Lee Harvey Oswald's Autopsy and the Sackner Archive

Visual Art

The new wooden Tolkien statue

Tolkien Sculpture to be Unveiled Next Month

Medieval Manuscript Codes Deciphered in New Getty Exhibition

Maurice Sendak Masterpieces Lead Illustration Art Sale

Book Arts

LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Bach Manuscript Inspires Bodleian Libraries Concert

New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Auctions

Title opening of the Kelmscott Press edition of "Reynard the Fox" (1892).

Gutenberg Bible Leaf, Katherine Dunham Correspondence, J.P. Morgan's Jewels: Auction Preview

Barbara Taylor Bradford Inscribed First Editions, Writing Desks, and Typewriter to Auction

Andersen Rarities, NASA Photos, Qur’an Manuscripts: Auction Preview