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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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Is a rare book always greater than the sum of its parts? Is it a desecration to break up a copy of the world’s greatest book? Or is it democratising the book by making its historic pages more accessible to many more people than just one wealthy owner?
Highlights of Swann Galleries' auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana on March 20 include: * Advance press copy of Martin Luther King Jr's Nobel Peace Prize lecture on December 11, 1964, in which he addresses not only the struggle against racial injustice, but also poverty and…
A prayer book belonging to Dr Crippen will go under the hammer at Richard Winterton Auctioneers on March 24.American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged in 1910 after the disappearance of his wife Cora, a music hall…
At Freeman's | Hindman in Chicago on Tuesday, March 18, The Collected Library, in 364 lots. A group of 162 Limited Editions Club publications from the collection of former Ford CEO Donald Petersen rates the top estimate at $3,000–5,000. A run of Paxton's Magazine of Botany (1834–1849) is estimated…
This week's Rare Book of the Week is this Book of Hours from the third quarter of the 15th century, Flanders, illustrated by Willem Vrelant with Latin text in brown and red ink, 15 miniatures in border framing, decorative initials, and a green-blue velvet binding with openwork silver clasps, and…
The Book Collector literary journal has appointed David Pearson as its new editor, following the death of James Fleming in December last year.
For the first time in its 40 year history, The Sunderland Collection, a private collection of rare antique cartography, is loaning items to a public institution. The collection is lending eight atlases and maps to the Sainsbury Centre, a public art museum in Norwich, UK which is affiliated…
The Fresh Perspectives Symposium, hosted by the Winterthur Library, runs next week aimed at the next generation of rare book, manuscript, and special collections professionals, scholars, and enthusiasts.
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Daniel Crouch Rare Books will bring to an exhibition celebrating the cartographic innovations of the Dutch Golden Age to TEFAF Maastricht which runs March 15 – 20 2025.
A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible has been found in an attic in Bromsgrove, UK and is expected to sell for £20,000 - £30,000 later this month.The manuscript dating back to circa 1455 will be sold at Chorley’s Auctioneers in the UK's Cotswolds on March 25. It was found by a resident of Bromsgrove in…
