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A June 10, 1779, letter signed by George Washington and written in the hand of his aide-de-camp…
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Rain is the subject of the National Library of Scotland’s forthcoming major exhibition including a copy of 18th century Scottish scientist James Hutton’s Theory of Rain and rain in the poetry of Robert Burns.
The 2026 McKnight Book Artist Fellows are artist, photographer, and book artist Christopher Selleck and artist, writer, andn educator Brooks Turner.Christopher's interdisciplinary practice explores masculinity, identity, and vulnerability through photographs, sculpture, and intimate book-based…
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has revealed its public summer lecture series focusing on book history, bibliography, and print culture.* June 1: The 2026 Kress Foundation Art of the Book in Europe LectureAquatint Travel Books and the Haptic Picturesque with Douglas Fordham,…
George Washington's emergence from young surveyor to army commander and President is charted in 23 signed letters in Heritage Auctions' John H. Freund Americana Collection sale on June 19.Among them is a land survey completed when Washington was 19, a 1776 account of the seizure of Dorchester…
Sir Alec Guinness’s annotated copy of Hamlet, Virginia Woolf's copy of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, and Beethoven's autograph sketches for the overture Die Weihe des Hauses will go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.
A signed 1885 contract between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show has sold for $168,213 at RR Auction’s The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz.The one-page agreement signed June 6, 1885, formalized Sitting Bull’s appearance in the ‘Buffalo Bill Wild West Show’ for a four-…
The New York Public Library has announced the acquisition of the professional and personal archive of journalist and bestselling author Gay Talese.
Catawiki has announced the upcoming auction of a copy of the 1543 first edition of Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, the foundational work of modern anatomy and Renaissance printing, offered with no reserve price.
The British Museum has released the first details of what it describes as "its exhibition of the century" when the Bayeux Tapestry will open to the public in London on September 10 through July 11, 2027.
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library has announced the launch of The Hispanic Society Poetry Center which will also house the archive of Chilean poet David Rosenmann Taub (1927-2023). Poet and scholar Ezequiel Zaidenwerg has been appointed as inaugural Head of the Poetry Center, the first…
