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Tickets for Hallowe'en and Christmas events at the Charles Dickens Museum in London go on sale on October 1 with one-man performances of Dickens’s stories by James Swanton and Dominic Gerrard.Nancy’s Murder and Other Horrifying Tales performed by Dominic Gerrard (October 28 and 29) focuses on the…
A four-part sale series featuring one of the most significant private collections of cat-related books and art ever assembled begins tomorrow at Bonhams.The Sandy Lerner Collection from American businesswoman and philanthropist Sandy Lerner (b.1955) features …
The first of a two-part single-owner auction Reason and Revolution focusing on the history of scientific thought comes to Sotheby's next month.Featuring first editions from Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton including a rare surviving manuscript in Newton's…
Bob Dylan’s handwritten working lyrics for two songs from Blood on the Tracks have sold for $290,404 in RR Auction’s Remarkable Rarities sale.
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London has announced its winter programme of exhibitions including a new major exhibition on the work and life of Moomin creator Tove Jansson.
The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Philadelphia scientist and Founding Father David Rittenhouse warning that the goal of the nation should be keeping out of wars and out of debt.
The Gaffurio Codex by composer and kapellmeister of Milan Cathedral Franchino Gaffurio headlines Il Ponte's Antique Books & Livres d'Artistes auction on September 30 and October 1.The famous Italian music theorist's work was written 1473-74 and brings together the main treatises of medieval and…
Gene Colan and Johnny Craig’s original opening splash page of Iron Man No. 1 from May 1968 will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions’ September 25–27 Comic Art sale, part of a four-day event alongside an overlapping Comic Books auction.The consignor is David Maisel, founding Chairman of Marvel…
What Sotheby’s describes as "the greatest collection of letters and documents relating to Vice-Admiral Horatio, Viscount Nelson in private hands today" will come to auction next month including letters to and from his lover Emma Hamilton.
The British Library is has announced the appointment of Dr Paul Bate as its new Chief Executive, succeeding Interim Chief Executive Dr Jeremy Silver.
