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William Grimm and Jacob Grimm, 1847. Public domain photo (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts3 June 2024

The Brothers Grimm Private Book Collection Discovered in University Library

#43: Superhero Spotlight: The Comic Book Market. Photo © Barnebys Group
Books, Maps & Manuscripts6 October 2023

Podcast Ep #43: Superhero Spotlight: The Comic Book Market

From left to right: Miles Davis (1926-1991) with Quincy Thomas Troupe Jr. (b. 1939), Miles: The Autobiography, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1989. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London, George Newnes, 1902. Agatha Christie (1890-1976), The Thirteen Problems, London, for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1932. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), The Great Gatsby, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Photos © Christie's (collage)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts5 October 2023

World Records for World Literature at the Charlie Watts Auction

The complete Gutenberg Bible of the New York Public Library. Bought by James Lenox in 1847, it was the first copy to be acquired by a United States citizen. By NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) - originally posted to Flickr as Gutenberg Bible, CC BY-SA 2.0 (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts28 August 2023

The Testaments Transformed: Printing The Gutenberg Bible

Bob Dylan at a press conference in Los Angeles, 1965. Photo © Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Books, Maps & Manuscripts23 August 2023

Bob Dylan’s Handwritten Lyrics Are Up For Sale

Photograph of Virginia Woolf at the age of 20 in 1902. Public domain image (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts27 July 2023

Virginia Woolf's Personal Copy of 'The Voyage Out' Has Been Digitised

Silvia Plath, letter, signed, to Ted Hughes, 21 October 1956. Photo © Sotheby's
Books, Maps & Manuscripts21 June 2023

Your Own, Sylvia

The Codex Sassoon, a 9th-10th century Hebrew Bible. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts22 May 2023

Oldest Hebrew Bible Fetches £30 Million at Auction

Jessie Chapman, William Shakespeare's first folio behind glass at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C.(detail). License CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Books, Maps & Manuscripts19 April 2023

Shakespeare's First Folio Turns 400

Francis Cugat's illustration for the dust jacket of The Great Gatsby. Public domain image (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts17 February 2023

How The Great Gatsby Got Its Cover

Photo © Chiswick Auctions Sponsored
Books, Maps & Manuscripts19 December 2022

A World of Artistic and Literary Treasures: In Conversation with Chiswick Auctions

Ernest Hemingway, ca. 1953. Photo public domain (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts11 August 2022

From Detectives to Dystopia: 3 Authors and Their Top Works

Illuminated manuscript by Albrecht Dürer with Willibald Pirckheimer's coat of arms, found in the Oldenburg State Library. Photo Frauke Proschek (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts27 June 2022

An Illustration by Albrecht Dürer Has Been Discovered in an Ancient Book

Plate 397 of The Birds of America by Audubon depicting the Scarlet Ibis. Image © Courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts4 April 2022

Wildlife Meets Watercolour: Inside Audubon's Birds of America

Photo by Jessica Fabel (detail)
Books, Maps & Manuscripts13 December 2021

This First-edition Harry Potter Just Broke a New Record

The Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor, southern Germany, late 13th to early 14th century (detail). Photo © Sotheby's
Books, Maps & Manuscripts26 October 2021

A New Record for a Hebrew Prayerbook

Notes by Emily and Anne Brontë, 1841, with sketches by Emily, included in the Honresfield House library sale at Sotheby's (detail). Photo © Sotheby's
Books, Maps & Manuscripts1 June 2021

A Lost Library of the Brontë Sisters' Work at Auction

The important encyclopedia, the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1493, is also called "Schedelsche Weltchronik" after its author Hartmann Schedel. | Photo: © Bonhams
Books, Maps & Manuscripts19 January 2021

Rare Nuremberg Chronicle Sets a World Record

William Shakespeare, Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (detail), original edition of the Premier Folio, printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623, London, image © Christie's
Books, Maps & Manuscripts26 October 2020

Shakespeare Sets a New Auction Record

'Non dépourvues de sentiment' ('Not without Sentiment'), drawing in black ink, and black wash, Detail from the manuscript 'Avant et après' by Paul Gauguin. Image © The Courtauld [detail]
Books, Maps & Manuscripts29 September 2020

Multi-million Gauguin Manuscript Acquired by London Gallery

--A large and comprehensive archive of ephemera from, and relating to Captain Scott. Photo: Dawsons AuctioneersSponsored
Books, Maps & Manuscripts25 August 2020

Scott of the Antarctic Letters Discovered

Three Harry Potter first editions found in a skip are expected to fetch thousands at auction. Photos: Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Books, Maps & Manuscripts11 May 2020

Rare Harry Potter Books Found in Skip at Auction

J. K. Rowling, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone’, First Edition, 1997 inscribed by the author, sold at Bonhams on 11 March 2020 for £118,000 after an estimate of £70,000-90,000. Photo © Bonhams
Books, Maps & Manuscripts12 March 2020

Harry Potter First Edition Sells for £118k

Godfrey Kneller, Portrait of Isaac Newton (detail), 1702, oil on canvas, National Gallery London
Books, Maps & Manuscripts12 March 2020

Exceedingly Rare Work by Isaac Newton is Discovered

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