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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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Lyon & Turnbull's February 7 Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs sale features items covering 200 years of one of Scotland's best-known families.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Auroura Morgan, winner of the 2023 Honey & Wax Book Collecting prize for female collectors aged 30 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?
A new exhibition at The Wolfsonian–Florida International University showcases the museum’s exceptional holdings of rare books from the Harlem Renaissance.
In an initiative championed by Her Majesty The Queen, 20 tiny manuscripts have been penned and decorated by hand by leading writers and illustrators to establish a modern-day miniature library for one of the largest and most famous dolls’ houses in the world.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America's Diversity Initiative Committee has announced a paid summer internship program co-sponsored by AbeBooks.
On February 24, Heritage Auctions presents a 'Coming to America' 60th Anniversary Beatles auction that features significant autographs and signatures of the entire band including their last known sign-off on a record contract and an unused ticket to the band’s first U.S.
RR Auction will feature a collection of 600 unique items in its upcoming February Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction which pays homage to Presidents' Day.Notable among them is a one-page John Adams letter from September 24, 1812, written during the War of 1812. Additionally, a rare 1808…
Highlights from Bernard Quaritch's latest catologue Almanacks: Twelve Books for the New Year:* Le double Liègeois, almanach journalier pour 1842, supputé par M. Math. Laensberg, suivi de ses véritables prophéties. Liège and Paris, Stahl, [1841].
At Sotheby's New York on Monday, January 29, 16 lots of Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana. Sharing the top estimate of $300,000–500,000 are a contemporary manuscript map of General Edward Braddock's route to Fort Duquesne (1755) and Captain James Duncan's manuscript journal of the Siege of…
Following the £1m sale in September 2023 of the first portion of treasured texts collected by William and Christopher Foyle, Dominic Winter Auctioneers will present the second portion of the Foyle Library for sale by public auction on January 31.
