The Oregon Room

Book People

The cover of Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

Nate Pedersen on The Books of Pseuoscience

65th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair Enjoys Record Year

Nils Dickmann of Ballard Books on Teenage Book Scouting and Peter Rainier's Harbor Log

Exhibitions

Washington's spy ring code book

Story of George Washington and King George III Told Through Original Documents

Weston Library Celebrates Anniversary with Unveiling of Newly Discovered Royal Manuscript

Book of Hours: Rare Book of the Week

Maps

Geographia, Sebastian Münster, 1540

Sunderland Collection Rare Cartographical Loan on Display

16th Century Cartographer's Library Recreated at TEFAF Maastricht

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Book Arts

Karen Wirth's work at Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Karen Wirth's Book Art Inspired by Architectural Forms Goes on Show

DogEar Festival Returns to Celebrate Artists’ Books and Printmaking

Folio Society Celebrates Decades of Book Art and Illustration

Visual Art

'Goodnight Moon' Stamps

'Goodnight Moon' Stamps to be Unveiled for Children's Book Week

Victor Hugo’s Drawings Go on Show

Original Art from Marvel’s 1970s Comic Books to Auction at Hake's

Photographs

Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, Herbarium Plate 54 - Pansy, 202, and Herbarium Plate 64 - Christmas Cactus, 2023. Archival pigment prints.

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

Julia Margaret Cameron's Images for Tennyson to Auction

Historic England Acquires Collection of Earliest Photographs of England

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

Americana

A letter from Richard Stockton to his brother discussing the readiness of the Americans people for the Revolutionary war, estimated at $100,000 – 150,000.

Rare Documents from American Revolution Under the Hammer at Bonhams

National Archives Releases Thousands of JFK Assassination Records

African Americana: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Auctions

On the Wing cover artwork by Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake Artworks at Fundraising Sale for the Centre for Illustration

Sir Brooke Boothby's Fonmon Castle Library and Rare Mathematic Treatise to Auction

Picasso Postcard, Bob Dylan's Yearbook, Richard Stockton's "Yankee Doodle": Auction Preview

Rare Books

Romanesque binding from Clairvaux covered with a chemise with hairs on

Sealskin Confirmed as Material for Medieval Book Covers and Parchment

Autographs: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Flushing Remonstrance: Rare Book of the Week