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The Jones Declaration of Independence, Samuel Jones, ca. 1788. Photo © Christie's (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsJanuary 17, 2025

The Top 10 Highlights of Americana Week

William Grimm and Jacob Grimm, 1847. Public domain photo (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsMay 31, 2024

The Brothers Grimm Private Book Collection Discovered in University Library

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 & ManuscriptsOctober 6, 2023

World Records for World Literature at the Charlie Watts Auction

#43: Superhero Spotlight: The Comic Book Market. Photo © Barnebys Group
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsOctober 6, 2023

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

Bob Dylan at a press conference in Los Angeles, 1965. Photo © Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsAugust 28, 2023

Bob Dylan’s Handwritten Lyrics Are Up For Sale

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 & ManuscriptsAugust 10, 2023

The Testaments Transformed: Printing The Gutenberg Bible

Photograph of Virginia Woolf at the age of 20 in 1902. Public domain image (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsJuly 28, 2023

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

Silvia Plath, letter, signed, to Ted Hughes, 21 October 1956. Photo © Sotheby's
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsJune 20, 2023

Your Own, Sylvia

The Codex Sassoon, a 9th-10th century Hebrew Bible. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsMay 23, 2023

Oldest Hebrew Bible Fetches $38 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 & ManuscriptsApril 19, 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 & ManuscriptsFebruary 10, 2023

How The Great Gatsby Got Its Cover

Rare Book: Hariot's Virginia. Image © Charlton Hall (detail)Sponsored
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsJanuary 26, 2023

Colonial History With No Reserve

Illuminated manuscript by Albrecht Dürer with Willibald Pirckheimer's coat of arms, found in the Oldenburg State Library. Photo Frauke Proschek (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsJune 27, 2022

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

Plate 397 from “The Birds of America” by Audubon, depicting the scarlet ibis. Photo © Courtesy of John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsMarch 31, 2022

Wildlife Meets Watercolor: Inside Audubon's Birds of America

Photo by Jessica Fabel (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsDecember 13, 2021

This First Edition Harry Potter Just Broke a New Record

The Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor, southern Germany, late 13th to early 14th century. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsOctober 25, 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. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsMay 27, 2021

The Lost Library of the Brontë Sisters at Auction

The important encyclopedia, the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1493, is also called "Schedelsche Weltchronik" after its author Hartmann Schedel. | Photo: © Bonhams
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsJanuary 18, 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 & ManuscriptsOctober 22, 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 & ManuscriptsSeptember 29, 2020

Multimillion Gauguin Manuscript Acquired by London Gallery

Three Harry Potter first editions found in a skip are expected to fetch thousands at auction. Photos: Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsMay 11, 2020

Rare Harry Potter Books Found in Trash 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 & ManuscriptsMarch 13, 2020

Harry Potter First Edition Sells for $152,000

Godfrey Kneller, Portrait of Isaac Newton (detail), 1702, oil on canvas, National Gallery London
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsMarch 12, 2020

Exceedingly Rare Work by Isaac Newton is Discovered

19th-century novelist Charles Dickens. Photo © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Image
Books, Maps & ManuscriptsFebruary 18, 2020

The Best Selling Novel of All Time

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