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An extremely rare 1781 promissory note printed and twice signed by Benjamin Franklin to arrange…
A Revolutionary War letter signed by George Washington and sent to New York Governor George Clinton…
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Throughout the process of writing my new book, The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author (published by PostHill Press on February 13). I kept reminding myself that this was not a book collection, it was a biography.
The Ticknor Society in Boston will begin accepting submissions starting March 1 for the Sixth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, which was created to encourage and recognize those in New England who have been inspired to compile, curate, and own a book…
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, February 13, 227 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera, offering a wide range of material.
The Folio Society has announced that Neil Gaiman will be a guest judge for its annual Folio Book Illustration Award. He will be judging work based on his short story The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains.
A huge collection of Sherlockiana and Arthur Conan Doyle items will go under the hammer next week at Potter & Potter's auction A Study in Sherlock, Part II.
The New-York Historical Society has announced a special installation - New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam - on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of a colony that would give rise to New York City.
Bonhams will be offering The American Presidency curated sale of Presidential ephemera online from February 11 featuring a reange of interesting documents and letters. Highlights include: * President Kennedy's last day official schedule annotated by with minute-by-minute detail (…
A new exhibition of contemporary artists’ books at the Grolier Club celebrates hundreds of years of communication through real and imagined languages. On view from February 29 through May 11 in the New York club’s second floor gallery, Language, Decipherment, and Translation – from…
Offered here is one of the finest private collections of the earliest printed books in English, certainly one of the largest, most complete private collection of its kind any place in the world. Ranging in date from 1495 to 1599, these 150+ books cover the reigns of several monarchs and topics from…
Closed since 2019, the Emily Dickinson Museum has now completed a multi-year preservation effort at The Evergreens, aimed at improving environmental conditions for objects in its recently documented collection, and reducing energy consumption.
