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This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections…
An extremely rare 1781 promissory note printed and twice signed by Benjamin Franklin to arrange…
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Sotheby’s New York will hold a series of eight auctions in October to celebrate one of the most significant and comprehensive rare book libraries to ever come to auction, Bibliotheca Brookeriana, the T. Kimball Brooker Library of Renaissance Books and Bindings.
The second annual David Ruggles Prize, the international book collecting prize established in 2020 to support and encourage young collectors of color, has been awarded to Oscar Salguero.
An original handwritten advertisement for the Apple-1 Computer, penned entirely by Steve Jobs, has sold for $175,759 at RR Auction.
The rough draft specification sheet for the groundbreaking Apple-1 bears Jobs' full signature in lowercase print, "steven jobs." It features contact information,…
New England Book Auctions sells 223 lots of Literature, Graphics, Ephemera on Tuesday, August 29. A copy of Gustav Klimt's Eine Nachlese (1946) with thirty plates by Klimt is expected to lead the way, estimated at $3,000–5,000.
Highlights of Buddenbrooks' latest Illustrated Books including Art, Fine Press, Literature, and Children’s Books catalogue include:* Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866)
Those looking for holiday reading which won't eat into baggage allowance restrictions should take a look at the latest crop of titles from the always fascinating Cambridge Elements series.
If you're searching for a present for a bookish friend, the new quiz game about words and language League of the Lexicon is worth a look.With praise from various UK wordy folk like Stephen Fry (“a logophile’s dream”) and Susie Dent (“a fiendish delight for all word lovers”), not to mention…
The Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that explores a multi-faceted international story of identity, creativity, migration, and belonging. Yiddish: A Global Culture opens on October 15, 2023, expanding the Center’s scope to include the world’s first…
Napoleon was one of the best read leaders the world has ever seen. As a young man he particularly enjoyed Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans and in exile on Saint Helena one of his favourites was Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.
The Bonhams online sale of Books and Manuscripts, featuring the collection of Delmer and Mary Lou Daves, ends on Tuesday, August 22. The 214 lots include a rare broadside prospectus for Scientific American from 1846, along with some associated material (estimated at $2,000–3,000); an 1880 Johannes…
