The only known photographs of mathematician and early computer programmer

Bernard Quaritch's May New Acquisitions list is a curated selection of 32 freshly catalogued items. "Amongst them you will find works on duelling, drawing, and dowries for spinsters; translations by…

On Wednesday, June 4, University Archives sells 524 lots of Rare Autographs, Books & Space Memorabilia, including six volumes of Cicero from Thomas Jefferson's library ($150,000–200,000) and a…

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine is Ireland’s oldest and largest container for a sacred book and has gone on display for the first time after nearly two years of restoration work.

Highlights from Swann Galleries' Maps & Atlases, Natural Hi

At Dominic Winter Auctioneers on Wednesday, May 21, 480 lots of Photographs, Postcards & Posters, Autographs, Documents & Ephemera, including about 1,000 postcards of the Seychelles from the…

Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on in the coming weeks:

UNESCO has added 74 new documentary heritage collections to its Memory of the World Register, covering topics such as the scientific revolution, women's contribution to history, and major milestone

Bonhams Paris holds an online sale on Monday, April 28, For All Mankind: The Artistic Legacy of Early Space Exploration. The 449 lots are NASA photographs from the collection of Victor Martin-…

This week's Rare Book of the Week comes up for auction at Christie’s in its spring sale of Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds on May 1, an extremely rare