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The Jones Declaration of Independence, Samuel Jones, ca. 1788. Photo © Christie's (detail)

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2025年1月17日

The Top 10 Highlights of Americana Week

William Grimm and Jacob Grimm, 1847. Public domain photo (detail)

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2024年5月31日

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 & Manuscripts2023年10月6日

World Records for World Literature at the Charlie Watts Auction

#43: Superhero Spotlight: The Comic Book Market. Photo © Barnebys Group

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2023年10月6日

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 & Manuscripts2023年8月28日

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 & Manuscripts2023年8月10日

The Testaments Transformed: Printing The Gutenberg Bible

Photograph of Virginia Woolf at the age of 20 in 1902. Public domain image (detail)

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2023年7月28日

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 & Manuscripts2023年6月20日

Your Own, Sylvia

The Codex Sassoon, a 9th-10th century Hebrew Bible. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2023年5月23日

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 & Manuscripts2023年4月19日

Shakespeare's First Folio Turns 400

Francis Cugat's illustration for the dust jacket of The Great Gatsby. Public domain image (detail)

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2023年2月10日

How The Great Gatsby Got Its Cover

Rare Book: Hariot's Virginia. Image © Charlton Hall (detail)

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2023年1月26日

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 & Manuscripts2022年6月27日

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 & Manuscripts2022年3月31日

Wildlife Meets Watercolor: Inside Audubon's Birds of America

Photo by Jessica Fabel (detail)

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2021年12月13日

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 & Manuscripts2021年10月25日

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 & Manuscripts2021年5月27日

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 & Manuscripts2021年1月18日

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 & Manuscripts2020年10月22日

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 & Manuscripts2020年9月29日

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 & Manuscripts2020年5月11日

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 & Manuscripts2020年3月13日

Harry Potter First Edition Sells for $152,000

Godfrey Kneller, Portrait of Isaac Newton (detail), 1702, oil on canvas, National Gallery London

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2020年3月12日

Exceedingly Rare Work by Isaac Newton is Discovered

19th-century novelist Charles Dickens. Photo © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Image

Books, Maps & Manuscripts2020年2月18日

The Best Selling Novel of All Time

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