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Inside Bonhams' new offices
Bonhams Opens New U.S. Headquarters
Bonhams has opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street in New York to the public.
One of The Huntington’s annotated July 1776 printings of the Declaration of Independence and a 1936 acoustic guitar owned by Woody Guthrie
New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus on how land has shaped life in America since 177
Tracey Emin's Six Turkish Tales with autographed letter to Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe
Shapero Rare Books to Sell Personal Library of Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe
The library of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight and her late husband the writer Alan Sillitoe features 185 inscribed books from authors including Robert Graves, Yehuda Amichai, and Margaret A
Little Nell – the beautiful child in her gentle slumber- tide by Samuel Williams. Through her deathbed scene, Dickens channelled his grief for the death of his 17-year-old sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth. Dickens’s feedback to Williams was to make Nell childish and her surroundings grim to create a starker contrast.
Unpublished Charles Dickens Fan Letter Opens New Exhibition on Women in His Life
A new exhibition opening today at the London home of Charles Dickens brings tog
The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, 1415 Prayers for the Morning Services of Rosh Hashana
Rothschild Vienna Mahzor 15th Century Hebrew Prayerbook Sold for $6.4m
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6.4 million.
A section of the errata slip for James Joyce’s Ulysses
Printing Errors Celebrated in Upcoming Yale Library Exhibition
The first British edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the 'Wicked Bible' will be among the hundreds of printed mistakes and errata lists on view in a new exhibition opening at 
Louis Palander in polar outfit photographed at his arrival in Japan.
Groundbreaking Vega Expedition Polar Archive to Auction
The private archive of explorer Captain Louis Palander af Vega will go under the hammer next month at Stockholms Auktionsverk.
Children running at Santa Ana Pueblo, one of the high-resolution images provided at the request of the Pueblo of Santa Ana, one of the tribal nations who partnered with the library as part of the Mellon-funded planning grant.
New Newberry Library $4m Grant Will Expand Access to Indigenous Studies Collections
The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-year project aiming to transform how Indigenous histories are

Lot 29: Letter of credence appointing Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Silas Deane commissioners to the court of France to negotiate a treaty of alliance, September 30, 1776, sold for $563,200

Founding Fathers Manuscripts Lead Freeman’s Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction
The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by
Elizabeth Salt's autograph album signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr plus Harrison's snapped guitar string
Autograph Book With Beatles and 1960s Singers Sold for £7,000
An album featuring the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and George Harrison's broken guitar string has been sold at  Richard Winterton Auctioneers for