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Maps

Union-drawn manuscript map of the area southwest of Alexandria, circa September 1861

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

William Morris's 'The Story of the Glittering Plain' and Secunda Etas Mundi Map to Auction

New Exhibition Focuses on Secret Maps

Rare Books

A Merry Christmas from Mr. and Mrs. John Barry Ryan, Christmas 1932, with original Rackham cover art

Unpublished Rackham Santa Claus Mystery Solved

Single-Owner Collection of H.P. Lovecraft First Editions to Auction

Marianne Faithfull's Diaries: Rare Book of the Week

Exhibitions

The festive dining room table at the Charles Dickens Museum

Special Festive Christmas Displays at Charles Dickens Museum

Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Marked at the Grolier Club

Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' Letter to Sir Walter Scott on Display For One Day Only

Americana

The musical arrangement for White Christmas

Bing Crosby 'White Christmas' Musical Arrangements and Scripts to Auction

Rufus King's Draft Constitution and Apple's Foundation Document to Auction

Inscribed Books by JFK and Ernest Hemingway to Spencer Tracy to Auction

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Book People

Ellisland Farmhouse, built by Burns

£12m Project Aims to Save Farm Where Robert Burns Wrote 'Auld Lang Syne'

Bright Young Librarians: Anne Peale

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center's Christina Vortia on Dorothy Porter and Black Children's Books

Book Arts

The six shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize in their special bindings

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Printing Press That Aided Chilean Independence Goes on Show

Antique Bookcases: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photographs

Unidentified photographer, Hester Street, West from the Southwest Corner of Norfolk Street, New York City, ca. 1898.

New York Melting Pot Photographs Go On Display

Unrecorded Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rare Photo of the Week

First Retrospective of Photographer Paddy Summerfield at the Bodleian

Auctions

Alan Rickman's Die Hard script

Alan Rickman's 'Die Hard' and Harry Potter Scripts and Personal Books to Auction

Simenon Manuscript, Gutenberg Bible Bifolium, Aldine Aristotle: Auction Preview

The Asian Fine Art Sale and The Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale

Visual Art

Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Christmas three cel sequence setup

'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Production Art to Auction

Einstein Portraits and Nazi Germany Denaturalization Document to Auction

Vincent Van Gogh’s Still Life 'Romans parisiens' Sold for $63m