Fine Books News: Recent

Philadelphia Continental Congress paper currency
Firsts London 2026 Theme is 'Revolution'
Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair returns to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from May 14 through May…
One of The Huntington’s annotated July 1776 printings of the Declaration of Independence and a 1936 acoustic guitar owned by Woody Guthrie
New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
Kauffer maquette for BP poster, reads "BP plus, plus a little something that some others haven't got."
Chat Noir Poster, Snakes, and Champollion: Auction Preview
Current Events & Trends
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Aitken Bible title page
First English Bible printed in America: Rare Book of the Week
Current Events & Trends
The Aitken Bible, the First English Bible printed in America, is among the offerings in William Reese Company's first printed catalogue issued under its new ownership by New York-based James Cummins Bookseller and London’s Peter Harrington.One of the most celebrated American Bibles, it is often…
White Bull's ledger and storybook
White Bull’s Historic Lakota Storybook Sold for $270,600
Auctions
A unique and historically important book documenting Lakota Sioux tribal history has topped Morphy’s' Western and Native American art, relics and memorabilia auction.
Visitors and stallholders at the first Tropic Bound in 2023
Tropic Bound International Biennial Artists' Book Fair Returns to Miami
Fairs
The Miami Design District will again host the Tropic Bound: International Biennial Artists' Book Fair next week following its succesful debut in 2023.
Examples of the first featured artist’s books, Audrey Avril
Barrovian Books Launches New Series Combining Traditional Bookmaking and Chicago Artists' Work
News
Chicago-based Barrovian Books is launching its Artist Series, a collection of limited edition books featuring work from local artists. The studio, which specializes in handmade journals and notebooks, will incorporate original artwork into their signature hand-bound books.
The Astronomia nova
Johannes Kepler’s Mysterium cosmographicum Sold for World Record for $327,600
News
Leading the auction results at Christie’s' latest Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts sale was Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia nova which went for $327,600.
Master of the Berry Apocalypse, The Province of Charchan (Qiemo), in the Travels of Marco Polo. France, Paris, ca. 1410.
Jane Austen, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Medieval Psalters in Morgan's 2025 Exhibition Schedule
News
Illustrated manuscripts, groundbreaking photographers, and America's unauthorized editions of Jane Austen feature in The Morgan Library & Museum's upcoming exhibitions in 2025 and 2026.
Sense and Sensibility: A Novel by Jane Austen (1811), first edition of the author’s debut novel, scarce in the original boards, with the contemporary ownership signatures of Frances, Lady Shelley, offered at the fair by Peter Harrington.
Jane Austen Theme for Rare Books San Francisco 2025
Book Fairs
Rare Books San Francisco will return later this week with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen a key element in its latest iteration.
The book of the exhibition Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home is published February 7
New Exhibition Charts History of Radio Using Unpublished Notebooks and Ephemera
News
The Bodleian Libraries’ new exhibition Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home will tell the story of the advent of radio in the UK, placing listeners rather than broadcasters at its heart. 
The Importance of Being Earnest
Barry Humphries's Collection of Oscar Wilde First Editions to Auction
Auctions
Significant works by Oscar Wilde, Ronald Firbank, and Aubrey Beardsley lead Christie’s' Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection auction on February 13 which reveals the literary tastes of the Australian performer famed for his characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.