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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

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

Photographs

Original portrait photograph of Lincoln seated with a book and his son Tad, taken February 9, 1864

Rare Photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Son Tad to Auction

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

Only Known Photographs of Ada Lovelace to Auction: Estimate £120,000

Exhibitions

Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen, December 4, 2025 – February 14, 2026

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

Landmark U.S. Exhibition Celebrates Tove Jansson and the Moomins

‘Remarkable Books’ Exhibition to Run Alongside Bath Book Fair

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

Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment

Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation Sold for $18m

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

World’s Oldest Auction House Stockholms Auktionsverk Acquires Uppsala Auktionskammare

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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

Visual Art

Frank Frazetta Famous Funnies #214 Buck Rogers cover original art (Eastern Color, 1954)

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

Major Donation of Italian Manuscript Illuminations to Getty

Artwork by Jane Austen’s Sister Cassandra on Show

Rare Books

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New Tool Detects Toxic Pigment in Books

Stephen Sondheim  Manuscripts and Papers Acquired by Library of Congress

Fine Books and Manuscripts: Five Rare Books for Collectors

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