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Scarce JFK & RFK Signed Presidential Pardon to Auction
Nate D. Sanders Auctions will auction an exceptionally rare presidential pardon signed by President John F.
[Anonymous]. Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers. Boston: George N. Thomson and E. Littlefield, 1839.
Origins of the Detective Story Explored in New Grolier Club Exhibition
The Grolier Club will unravel the history of detective literature in its new exhibition Whodunit?
The Magna Carta document: estimate of £6000-8000
Rare Early 18th Century Printing of Original Magna Carta Text to Auction
The rare vellum copy of the most celebrated legal document in the English-speaking world was published in 1733 by the English designer, engraver, and cartographer John Pine (1690-175
Part of the Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School Braille donation
Massive Collection of Braille Music Donated to New York Public Library
Filomen M.
Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian
Curtis’s The North American Indian Goes for $882,000 at Hindman
A complete copy of Edward S Curtis’s seminal The North American Indian, arguably the most complete ethnographic record of the native peoples of North America ever assembled, topped th
The Bat Man card, one of 24 cards in Wolverine’s 1936 Strange True Stories gum card set. Sold for $64,906 against an estimate of $10,000-$20,000
Superhero Gum Cards and Martin Luther King Church Service Booklet Top Hakes Sale
A Washington Cathedral program book from March 31, 1968, inscribed and signed by the Reverend Dr
Lot 135: C.L. Hawkins, Chicago the Greatest Inland City in the World, color-lithographed perspective map of Chicago looking west from Lake Michigan, Chicago, 1938. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
Maps of the American Continent and Revolutionary War Lead Swann Auction
Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books sale on December 7 is set to include a wide assortment of maps and graphics
A page from the manuscript by Georg Hermann
Scholar Rescues Lost Masterpiece by Author Georg Hermann Who Died at Auschwitz
A long-lost manuscript by renowned 20th century German author Georg Hermann has been published over 80 years after it was written, thanks to the efforts of a Univ
row of books on laptop monitor
Sandars Lectures 2022-2023 on Cambridge Bookbinding Dates
This year's annual Sandars Lectures series running later this month will be given
Seymour Chwast, Illustration for Find a Friend (Astra). Seymour Chwast Collection, Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections.
The Picture Book Art of Seymour Chwast on Show at Eric Carle Museum
Opening November 18 and on view through April 14, 2024, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is presenting Kid in a Candy Store: The Picture Book