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The Gaffurio Codex by composer and kapellmeister of Milan Cathedral Franchino Gaffurio headlines Il…
Gene Colan and Johnny Craig’s original opening splash page of Iron Man No. 1 from May 1968 will go…
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Rare pulp magazines and 'ashcans' from the Dr. Richard Meli Pulp Collection will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions December 4-6.
A major new initiative to save and restore poet Robert Burns’s Ellisland Farm has been launched by The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust.The international fundraising 'The Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne' campaign hopes to preserve the historic building in Scotland where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne,…
An early treatment for Gene Hackman's planned movie adapation of The Silence of the Lambs features in Bonhams' The Gene Hackman Collection:
A Life in Art, Part III
auction which runs online until December 4.
The Apple Computer Company Partnership Agreement joins founding father Rufus King's United States Constitution draft at Christie's' We the People: America at 250 auction.
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Christina Vortia, Chief Librarian at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in Washington DC.What is your role at your institution?
A first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens's 1843 A Christmas Carol leads Bellmans’ Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on December 3.
Christmas celebrations are already underway at the Charles Dickens Museum in London which is the home in which Dickens himself and his family celebrated yuletide.Over the festive period an extension of the current Showtime! exhibition will be on view in Dickens’s study, exploring Dickens’s…
A scarce copy of Beatrix Potter’s The Fairy Caravan leads Tennants’ Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on December 11.
Bonhams' upcoming Spencer Tracy: Collection of a Screen Icon sale will feature literary items from the personal collection of Hollywood actor Spencer Tracy.
Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi's 1602 De animalibus insectis libri septem is widely regarded as the first printed book focussed entirely on insects and a cornerstone of modern entomology.Aldrovandi (1522-1605) was the chair of natural history at the University of Bologna, and founded a…
