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Visual Art

The Bayeux Tapestry Museum exhibition gallery

Bayeux Tapestry to be Displayed at the British Museum

The Grateful Dead, B.B. King, and Bob Dylan Lead Heritage's Concert Posters Auction

Buck Rogers Cover Art and Action Comics’ No. 1 Lead Comic Art Auction

Exhibitions

Dombey and Son reading copy owned by Dickens

Showtime! Explores 200 Years of Performances of Charles Dickens’s Stories

'Printing Books for Four Decades' Exhibition Celebrates Scott Vile

Jane Austen, Hebrew Manuscripts and Jack Kerouac at Grolier Club 2025-26

Maps

A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi

The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’

Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

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

Americana

On his tenth attempt, David 'Bat' Masterson celebrates his 2024 victory with past winners of the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest outside Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West.

Hemingway Days Celebration in Key West

Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers Featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction

Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation to Auction with $17m Estimate

Auctions

The Letters & Autographs book coming to auction at Anderson & Garland

Autograph Album Featuring Letter from Charles Darwin at Anderson & Garland

Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation Sold for $18m

Galileo’s First Book, Mao’s Notes on Poetry, Brookeriana Bindings: Auction Preview

Photographs

An example from the Emerson book

Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

Previouly Unseen Photograph of Sale of Charles Dickens's Belongings on Display

Rare Books

Notes for The Little Drummer Girl, 1980

Archive of John le Carré to go on Display for First Time

Women Writers Who Inspired Jane Austen: Five Rare Books for Collectors

The Birds of Great Britain: Rare Book of the Week

Book Arts

The front of The Book Store

Pop-Up 'Antiquarian Bookstore' Launches to Promote a Single Title

LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Bach Manuscript Inspires Bodleian Libraries Concert

Book People

Aristotle's Master-Piece: or, the Secrets of Generation Displayed in all the Parts thereof... Very necessary for all Midwives, Nurses and Young-Married Women.

Melbourne Rare Book Fair Returns Later This Month

Mysterious Manuscripts, Black Bookstores, and Literary London: New Books Roundup

Dr. Emerson Richards of Mobilis Books on the History of the Book, YABS, and Aldine Press

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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