Living with Nature is the latest exhibition presented by Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books in Basel and…
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Five years after the inaugural sale, the fourth and final The Poetic Library of Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller will be held in Christie's Paris on March 24, nearly five years to the day after first auction which was marked by two pre-emptions by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside the Irish nationhood using rare books, manuscripts, letters, theatre pamphlets, political propaganda, and photographs.
The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 46 Fair opens today and runs through March 22 with more than 60 exhibitors offering a huge variety of vintage posters, postcards, letters, photographs, tickets, brochures, and advertisements.Held at The Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut, the…
Four national libraries across Ireland and the United Kingdom have been awarded €750,000 through the UK-Ireland Cultural Co-operation Programme for Across These Islands: Shared Histories, Shared Futures, a first-of-its-kind partnership to widen access to their national collections, deepen research…
Shetland Museum and Archives will host the final instalment of The National Library of Scotland’s centenary programme later this month with a focus on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid.Running March 28 through June 20, Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay will focus on the years that MacDiarmid (pen name…
The annual Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript African Americana sales was launched in March 1996 by Wyatt Houston Day who was the specialist for the first 22 sales.On March 19, the ninth Printed & Manuscript African Americana sale handled by Swann’s Americana specialist Rick Stattler will…
The Bodleian Libraries’ Season of the Natural World is a slate of exhibitions inspired by the world around us beginning with Pets & their People which is currently running through September 27. These exhibitions at the Weston Library in Oxford will celebrate the beauty of the natural world…
The original typescript scroll first draft of Jack Kerouac's On The Road has become the most expensive literary manuscript to sell at auction.Christie's had initially given the 1951 manuscript a $2.5m-$4m estimate following its sale for $2.4m in 2001 but it eventually sold for $12.135m in the Jim…
A first edition of Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, an angry letter about edits to his publisher, and a Lincoln funeral train invitation are among the highlights of Heritage Auctions’ Extraordinary Dan Madsen Collection auction on March 18.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, is now running at the Morgan Library & Museum.
