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Chawton House has acquired a first edition of Jane Austen's Sanditon, three handwritten letters by bestselling 19th century novelist Jane Porter, and materials from other 19th-century women writers from the Oregon-SW Washington (ORSWWA) region of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA).
The third part of JG Autographs's online Collecting Camelot: The Kennedy Legacy auction features 550 lots of autographs, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts relating to John F. Kennedy, Jackie, and the Kennedy family.Ending July 21, it features the archive of Benjamin A. Smith II, President…
A new permanent exhibition charting more than 200 years of Jane Austen publishing history has opened at Jane Austen's House in Chawton.
The New York Historical has announced the launch of The Story of America in 7 Books, part of its ongoing commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Beginning this fall, Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard, will lead monthly…
The Grolier Club will begin its 2026–2027 season with a new exhibition highlighting revolutions in contemporary American hand papermaking. The milestone 1,000th exhibition Pioneers in Hand Papermaking: 50 Years of Innovation at Dieu Donné on view September 8 through November 28, also…
Lobswood Manor, the house in which J.M. Barrie first began his story of Peter Pan, is on the market for £1.25m.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Nadeem Toodayan, winner of the 2023/4 National Book Collecting Prize for Young Australian Collectors. Where are you from / where do you live?I am from Brisbane, Australia, and am currently working in Victoria/Tasmania.
An exceptionally rare nine-volume set of A Collection of Prints, Engraved after the Most Capital Paintings in England by John and Josiah Boydell will go under the hammer at Anderson & Garland Auctioneers tomorrow.
A rare 1776 printing of the US Declaration of Independence which is one of just 11 known to survive and the only copy outside the United States has been discovered at The National Archives in Kew, London.The document was among papers seized when the American privateer Dalton was captured by the…
Benjamin Franklin's June 15, 1748, autograph letter written from Philadelphia during the aftermath of the British capture of Louisbourg leads RR Auction's latest Fine Autographs & Artifacts.
