In The News

Western County Histories including the scarce Yolo county history from 1879, early California…
Muhammad Ali's draft card which was issued the day the Louisville Kentucky Draft Board ordered him…
News
An archive of letters by Victorian polymath John Ruskin believed to be the be the largest group of Ruskin letters and manuscripts in private hands comes up for sale at Sworders on July 9. This collection of hundreds of letters, many of them offered for sale in groups of up to a dozen, cover…
Auctions
A selection of historic comic books and original comic art will be going under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' June 26-29 Comic & Comic Art auction.
News
A new exhibition at The Guildhall in Bath will showcase a selection of the finest books and bindings from Bath Record Office.
News
In its online Books and Manuscripts sale From Grolier to Godard ending today Sotheby’s is presenting 15 original drawings by Antoine Saint-Exupéry created in Algiers between late 1943 and early 1944, most of them previously unseen.
News
The first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language has been loaned by Westminster Abbey to St Davids Cathedral where it has gone on public display for the first time this week. The translation of the Bible into Welsh was a key project of the 16th and 17th century…
News
Coming to auction at Sotheby’s later this month will be the Thirteenth Amendment (estimate: $8m-$12m) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimate: $3m-$5m, both signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The documents will be on public view at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries in New York June 20-25,…
News
RR Auction's Marvels of Modern Music sale features items related to Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison, and Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd.
News
The Huntington Library’s new exhibition series in Los Angeles opens June 21 with a focus on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and in particular the library's own Ellesemere Chaucer.
News
Bartholomaeus’s De proprietatibus rerum printed in Cologne in 1481 by Johanem koelhoff de lubeck leads Bellmans' Printed Books & Manuscripts sale on July 16 with an estimate of £3,000 -£5,000.
News
A document signed by Reich President Karl Dönitz authorizing the start of surrender negotiations with Allied forces in the final days of World War II sold for $166,333 at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.