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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…
Book Fairs
The Portuguese Salão do Livro Antigo antiquarian book fair returns for its second edition at the Municipal House of Culture in Coimbra this week November 6- 9.
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Auction house Freeman’s | Hindman has rebranded  the company under the name Freeman’s timed to coincide with the 220th anniversary of its founding in November 1805 when Tristram B. Freeman was appointed auctioneer for the City of Philadelphia by the governor of Pennsylvania. 
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The National Library of Scotland is holding a pop-up display of Frankenstein-related material on November 7 to coincide with the release of Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel on Netflix.
Auctions
A 1939 Superman No. 1 will headline Heritage Auctions' Comic Books sale later this month with expectations that it will break comic book records.It was uncovered by three Northern California brothers looking through their late mother’s belongings in their family home during the holiday season last…
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The management team of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has confirmed that it will open its doors to the public in Clerkenwell, London, in May next year.
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Shapero Rare Books is selling a major collection of ephemera from The Long 60s (1955-1975) assembled by Hilary Gerrard who was Ringo Starr's friend, financial advisor and business manager.Gerrard (1933-2023) was however a prolific collector of posters, festival tickets, leaflets, and magazines from…
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An exhibition exploring the evolution of Spanish high fashion at the peak of Spain’s imperial  power at The Hispanic Society Museum & Library opens next month in New York.Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550–1700 runs November 6 through March 22, 2026, curated by art historian Dr.…
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The use of maps by governments as confidential tools of control is at the centre of a new exhibition at the British Library in London which also looks at mapping in the Where’s Waldo? books and world-building games like Minecraft. Running through January 18,  2026, Secret Maps begins by…
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The Raab Collection has announced the discovery of perhaps the earliest known written examples of modern musical notations from Western Europe on a vellum manuscript leaf from a Latin Sacramentary.None earlier are known to exist in any private collection or to have reached the public market. The…
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The Ticknor Society in the greater Boston area will begin accepting submissions starting March 1, 2026, for the Sixth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize.