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New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
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Heritage Auctions in collaboration with SemperFi Comics has completed one of the largest private comic transactions by selling a Batman No. 1 for $6 million alongside a Superman No. 1 for $7 million. The results in its recent Comics and Comic Art auction follow the record-breaking $9.12m sale…
The first British edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the 'Wicked Bible' will be among the hundreds of printed mistakes and errata lists on view in a new exhibition opening at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library opening March 30.
The private archive of explorer Captain Louis Palander af Vega will go under the hammer next month at Stockholms Auktionsverk.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amalia V. of New York City who was an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for woman collectors aged 30 and younger.Where are you from / where do you live?I’m originally from Philadelphia, but I’ve lived in NYC…
Highlights of Potter & Potter's Photography, Americana & Historical Memorabilia auction on February 5 include: A collection of American railroad and steamer passes, 1856 – 1936
The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-year project aiming to transform how Indigenous histories are preserved, accessed, and represented, and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. The Newberry holds one of the largest print…
Highlights of PBA Galleries' February 5 auction from the Klaus Werner Collection with an emphasis on 18th and 19th century voyages across the Pacific Ocean include:* Voyage Autour du Monde sur la Frégate La Vénus, Pendant les Années 1836-1839 by Abel Aubert Du Petit-Thouars
The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by John Hancock, The Seed of American Victory Over Great Britain: The Continental Congress Appoints the American Envoy to France, which sold for $563,200, following a pre-sale estimate of $150,000–250,000.
An album featuring the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and George Harrison's broken guitar string has been sold at Richard Winterton Auctioneers for £7,000.The signatures were obtained by Portsmouth teenager Elizabeth Salt (Liz McBrierty, as she was then) who met John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George…
The Brooklyn Museum has unveiled a rare 21ft complete and gilded Book of the Dead, the finest surviving example of its kind.Presented to the public for the first time following a three-year conservation project, the papyrus anchors a newly refreshed funerary installation Unrolling Eternity in…
