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A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opening next month will explores the…
A cache of correspondence by the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale will go under the…
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The National Trust’s annual insect pests report has found that Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina), which feed on books, paper and cotton, retained top spot with recorded numbers rising by six per cent.The report collates information gathered by house staff around the Trust, helping the charity to…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Adam McInturf, proprietor of Arches Bookhouse in Portland, Oregon:How did you get started in rare books?
A nearly 400-year-old letter that documents the mythologized 'purchase' of the island of Manhattan from the Indigenous peoples who inhabited it is on view now through July 14, at the New-York Historical Society.
At ALDE on Tuesday, March 19, 192 lots of Livres de Gastronomie, including two manuscript volumes documenting the menus and food expenditures of the French royal court: the volume for 1680 is expected to sell for €5,000–6,000, and the volume for 1752 could fetch €3,000–4,000. At the same estimate…
The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History looks at how the Arctic has been visually depicted from the 16th century to the present, and runs through July 13 at the New York Public Library.
Inspired by the life and work of Beacon Hill-based abolitionist Harriet Bell Hayden, Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums at the Boston Athenaeum brings together rarely seen works and examines Black abolitionists’ public identities, private lives, visual culture, and social activism…
John le Carré's desks, tables, chairs and other personal effects from his Cornish estate Tregiffian will go under the hammer at Roseberys London on March 20.
Cambridge University Library will draw on its collections of crime fiction for a new exhibition opening later this month.
A historic report detailing the development of the atomic bomb signed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and 23 other minds behind the Manhattan Project has been sold for $53,594 by Boston-based RR Auction.
![Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 [1725], Catalogue no.1. The autograph manuscript of the full score, the only surviving working manuscript, with annotations also by Bach's eldest son, Wilehelm Friedemann.](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_listed_teaser_thumb_768x735_/public/media-images/2024-03/bach.jpg?itok=f5spS-f2)
Bodleian Libraries has announced the acquisition through the Acceptance in lieu scheme of the autograph of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day, Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein (BWV 128).
