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A 1920 tour contract guaranteeing George Herman 'Babe' Ruth $10,000 for 10 exhibition games in Cuba…
An archive of correspondence relating to the Kennedy political dynasty is expected to sell for £2,…
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The National Comedy Center will become the home of Joan Rivers’ career archive including a file cabinet containing more than 65,000 original jokes spanning from the start of her career in the 1950s to 2014 when she died.
A needlework sampler embroidered by a girl who married a direct descendant of William Bradford (1590-1657), signatory to the Mayflower Compact, comes to auction at the British auction house Sworders this month.
Three albums bring together 761 postcards featuring places in Staffordshire including Stafford, Lichfield, Whittington, and Chase Terrace, go under the hammer on day one of Richard Winterton Auctioneers’ Antiques & Home Sale on June 12. As a single lot, the three albums are estimated at £2…
Highlights from James Cummins Bookseller's latest catalogue There's No Place Like Home including:
* Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware
Autographed items by Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Pancho Villa, Mahatma Gandhi, and an archive of letters from Ezra Pound feature in the June 15 Fine Books & Manuscripts sale at Swann Galleries which will feature many rare autographs and books, with a special selection dedicated to…
Historians at Hever Castle believe that Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, and Thomas Cromwell all owned a copy of the same prayer book.
Leading Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on June 22 in New York, is a previously unknown, extensive medical manuscript by John Morgan, the father of American medicine and the founder of America’s first medical college in 1765.
A series of letters from J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan discussing his feelings about hobbits and the writing of The Lord of the Rings are coming to auction at Bonhams later this month.
Swann Galleries’ third iteration of Focus on Women, an auction dedicated to the contributions of women to art, life, and society, brought $361,090, with literature and archives - especially those of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - among the leading items of the sale.
Hindman will present two days of manuscripts, archives, early photography, and artifacts spanning hundreds of years of American history in its June 15-16 American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction.
The June 15 session will focus on American conflicts including the Civil War and Indian…
