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Peter Harrington is due to offer a group of original manuscripts and typescripts for Now We Are Six…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg is a new exhibition…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the redesign of the Nolen Study Room in the Thomas J. Watson Library.
A major exhibition of works by William Blake is running at the Yale Center for British Art exploring the imaginative visual art and poetry held by the museum.
A rare holograph fragment from Captain James Cook’s logbook from his second voyage to the South Pacific comes to auction later this month at Bonhams with an estimate of $80,000–$120,000.
100 books, manuscripts, and photographs from the Royal Society of Medicine library lead the Christie’s Valuable Books, Manuscripts and Photographs sale later this year with a total estimate of £2.17m-£3.20m.Proceeds from the auction on December 10 will be directly invested into the RSM including…
Letters written by Ludwig van Beethoven, Albert Einstein, James A. Garfield, and René Magritte lead RR Auction's October Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.
Ursula K Le Guin began writing each new story by drawing a map and from October 10 The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K Le Guin will present a selection of these images by her including many which have never been exhibited previously.
Diaries written by English molecular biologist Francis Crick who played a crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule will go under the hammer at Sworders on October 24.The three volumes, covering the period 1938-39 are part of a cache of manuscripts that include letters…
More than 150 volumes from landscape architect Renny Reynolds’ personal library on garden design and architecture went under the hammer at Freeman’s | Hindman Garden Party: The Collection of Renny Reynolds auction.Reynolds’s client list included Giorgio Armani, Diana Ross, and Andy Warhol, while he…
Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American women book collectors aged 30 years and younger, was established in 2017 by Honey & Wax…
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has now made available recordings of talks from its Summer 2025 Lecture Series. A Parallel History of Books and Blooks with Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtWatch on YouTubeListen on SoundCloud
