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Current Events & Trends | September 20, 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Handling Your Books

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How do you handle your rare books and collections? Like Harvard, of course.

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Bach Manuscript Inspires Bodleian Libraries Concert
New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Photographs

One of Antoine Claudet's daguerreotypes of Ada Lovelace
Only Known Photographs of Ada Lovelace to Auction: Estimate £120,000
Al Capone Signed Photograph Sells for $62,000
Pioneering Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron at the Morgan

Exhibitions

From his pointed shoes to his gilded hat, this knight embodies 1470s high fashion. Évrart de Trémaugon, Le Songe du Vergier. Illuminated by the Master of Gaste andcopied by Pierre de Condreu (or Coudren). France, Saint Chamond, 1469. (Detail)
The Art of Dress in Medieval Manuscripts
John Ashbery Drawings, Tarot, and 3,000 Years of Storytelling at the Morgan in 2026
History of Unconventional Publishing Charted in New Exhibition

Book People

The Bone People
Collector Nicholas Royle Retraces the Journeys of His Books
Minnesota Center for Book Arts Announces 2025 McKnight Book Fellows
Lost Ian Fleming Short Story Published as Bond Memorabilia Comes to Auction

Auctions

Louisiana Purchase Portfolio at Sotheby's
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Eisenhower’s Top Secret Message and German Surrender Documents Lead WWII Auction
Sendak’s Blakes, Jefferson’s Cicero, Rockwell Original Art: Auction Preview

Visual Art

A My Fair Lady Theatre Royal, Drury Lane programme, and souvenir book, 1958; a copy of Cecil Beaton's Fair Lady, C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., London, 1964; and a Beaton designed Christmas card
Cecil Beaton Designs for 'Anna Karenina' and Oscar Wilde Plays to Auction
Spider-Man Artwork Smashes Auction Record for Greg and Tim Hildebrandt
Tolkien Sculpture to be Unveiled Next Month

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Shelley's Baby Rattle, Homer's Iliad, and Jane Austen Juvenilia in New 'Treasured' Exhibition
Lewis Carroll: A Rare and Wondrous Rabbit Hole
How Poisonous Books Are Being Detected

Americana

Thomas Jefferson's Cicero Orations
Thomas Jefferson’s Cicero and J. D. Salinger Letter Lead University Archives Auction
Handwritten Manuscripts Related to Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James and Buffalo Bill to Auction
Getty Villa Museum Will Reopen June 27 After Palisades Fire Closure

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A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi
The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi’s ‘A Complete Map of All Under Heaven’
Maps & Atlases: Five Rare Books for Collectors
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