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Sotheby’s has announced the auction of the Shem Tov Bible, one of the most significant medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, with an estimate of $5m-$7m.Written by the scholar Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312 in Soria, Castile, the Shem Tov Bible is a masterpiece of scribal art from the Golden…
An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts depicting different places, peoples, and customs around the world from the perspective of medieval Europeans opens at The J. Paul Getty Museum on June 11.
An intriguing handwritten manuscript of bestselling French novel L’Étranger translated as The Outsider/The Stranger by Albert Camus has sold for €500,000 ($544,000) at auction in Paris.
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' June 6 The Art of War: Historical & Political Posters auction include:* World War I recruiting poster (U.S. Navy, 1917), 26.5" X 40.5", I Want You for the Navy. The work of Howard Chandler Christy, war illustrator and creator of the famous 'Christy Girls'.…
Bayliss Rare Books is offering The Beckham Collection, a unique D-Day collection ahead of the 80th anniversary on June 6.
The sale of 19th and 20th century photographs at Chiswick Auctions on June 6 includes a group of 14 images from the influential series published by The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London from 1867-78.
Franz Kafka's deep insecurity about his work is the focus of a letter coming to Sotheby's in which he describes his problems with writer's block.
A rare handwritten letter by Napoleon Bonaparte playfully criticizing his tutor's work is among 800 lots at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale ending June 12.
At Tajan on Tuesday, June 5, 125 lots of Livres et Manuscrits, including one of two known autograph manuscript copies of Camus' L'Étranger (€500,000–800,000). The sale also includes a complete 100-volume set of the Jannink L'Art en Écrit (1991–2017), in a custom bookcase designed by Tadashi…
The first Hugo ever awarded and props from the 1953 movie War of the Worlds are among items celebrating the relationships between technology, literature, and film in the 20th Century at the latest Freeman’s | Hindman auction.
