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More than 70 Bibles and devotional works from from the Estate of Robert Funk will go under the…
A life-size bronze installation depicting Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson will be…
Auctions
A set of photographs of Sir John Franklin and his fellow senior officers of the ill-fated HMS Erebus and Terror – believed lost until now – will be offered in Sotheby’s Travel, Atlases, Maps & Photographs Sale in London on September 21.
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Circus poster maquettes printed by the Erie Lithographing and Printing Co. were a premier category in Potter & Potter Auctions' Midsummer Circus, Sideshow & Oddities Sale.
Book Fairs
Rare book dealer Peter Harrington will participate in Frieze Seoul for the first time this year, with an inaugural collection of 50 rare works that illustrate the artistic and aesthetic elements of manuscript and print culture, from its beginnings in East Asia through to the present day.The…
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Sotheby’s New York will hold a series of eight auctions in October to celebrate one of the most significant and comprehensive rare book libraries to ever come to auction, Bibliotheca Brookeriana, the T. Kimball Brooker Library of Renaissance Books and Bindings.
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The second annual David Ruggles Prize, the international book collecting prize established in 2020 to support and encourage young collectors of color, has been awarded to Oscar Salguero.
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An original handwritten advertisement for the Apple-1 Computer, penned entirely by Steve Jobs, has sold for $175,759 at RR Auction.
The rough draft specification sheet for the groundbreaking Apple-1 bears Jobs' full signature in lowercase print, "steven jobs." It features contact information,…
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The Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that explores a multi-faceted international story of identity, creativity, migration, and belonging. Yiddish: A Global Culture opens on October 15, 2023, expanding the Center’s scope to include the world’s first…
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The Houses of Tove Jansson exhibition includes works that have not been publicly on display before including a number of her Moomin sketches.
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The Grolier Club in New York City presents an exhibition this fall about the power of books and ideas at a time of censorship and repression. 
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Chiswick Auctions’ 'Books and Works on Paper' sale on August 24 will include two rare Georgian manuals on the art of boxing. Both were written by well-known bareknuckle prize fighters around 1790.