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#12506365

26 June 2025

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 26, 2025: An art handler holds ''Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene. Dialogo in perpuosito de la stella nuova'' (Padua, 1605), an exceptionally rare first edition of Galileo's first published work, co-authored with Girolamo Spinelli and written in vernacular dialect to challenge Aristotelian cosmology through a witty dialogue sparked by the 1604 supernova; no other copy recorded on the market in over a century, estimate: GBP500,000 - 700,000 during a photocall at Christie's auction house ahead of Valuable Books and Manuscripts Sale in London, United Kingdom on June 26, 2025.

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#12506355

26 June 2025

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 26, 2025: An art handler holds Gladstone Missal, beautiful Renaissance illuminated manuscript once owned by British Prime Minister William Gladstone (who served from 1868 to 1894 - the longest tenure of any British Prime Minister), estimate: GBP200,000 - 300,000 during a photocall at Christie's auction house ahead of Valuable Books and Manuscripts Sale in London, United Kingdom on June 26, 2025.

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#12506354

26 June 2025

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 26, 2025: An art handler holds ''Tale of Petter Rabbit'' by Beatrix Potter, privately printed first edition of Potter's debut, one of only 250 copies - origin story of the beloved classic, estimate: GBP40,000 - 60,000 during a photocall at Christie's auction house ahead of Valuable Books and Manuscripts Sale in London, United Kingdom on June 26, 2025.

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#11821599

30 November 2024

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 29, 2024: An art handler holds The Dune Bible an extraordinary artefact from Alejandro Jodorowsky's epic Dune project (estimate: GBP250,000-350,000) during a photocall at Christie's auction house ahead of the Classic Week Sales in London, United Kingdom on November 29, 2024.

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#11172163

23 April 2024

Books from the old century are being stacked at Shri Pratap Singh Library in Srinagar, Kashmir, India, on World Book Day, April 23, 2024.

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#11172166

23 April 2024

A man is writing on a paper at Shri Pratap Singh Library in Srinagar, Kashmir, India, on World Book Day, April 23, 2024.

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#6853370

5 July 2021

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 05, 2021: Isaac Newton’s 'Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica' working manuscript for second edition, estimate £600,000-900,000 is displayed during a photo call for Classic Week at Christie's auction house, a marquee series of nine auctions which feature works of art from antiquity to the 20th century on July 05, 2021 in London, England.

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#6853356

5 July 2021

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 05, 2021: Isaac Newton’s 'Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica' working manuscript for second edition, estimate £600,000-900,000 is displayed during a photo call for Classic Week at Christie's auction house, a marquee series of nine auctions which feature works of art from antiquity to the 20th century on July 05, 2021 in London, England.

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#12506366

26 June 2025

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 26, 2025: An art handler looks at a love letter from John Lennon to his girlfriend Cynthia, written in Hamburg in April 1962 after Stuart Sutcliffe's death, capturing Lennon's raw grief, tenderness, and longing at a pivotal moment in Beatles history, estimate: GBP30,000 - 40,000 during a photocall at Christie's auction house ahead of Valuable Books and Manuscripts Sale in London, United Kingdom on June 26, 2025.

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#10962990

4 February 2024

People are visiting the national book fair named Amar Ekushey Boi Mela in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 4, 2024.

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#10962996

4 February 2024

People are visiting the national book fair named Amar Ekushey Boi Mela in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 4, 2024.

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#10963007

4 February 2024

People are visiting the national book fair named Amar Ekushey Boi Mela in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 4, 2024.

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#279628

8 October 2014

(L-R) Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor in Irish Writing, Helen Shenton, the new College Librarian and Archivist and Bernard Meehan, Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library Dublin, during a ohotocall as Trinity College Library Dublin announces the Acquisition of the Largest Collection of Samuel Beckett Letters Ever Offered for Public Sale. Dublin, Ireland. 8th October 2014. Photo: Artur Widak / NurPhoto

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#279629

8 October 2014

(L-R) Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor in Irish Writing, Helen Shenton, the new College Librarian and Archivist and Bernard Meehan, Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library Dublin, during a ohotocall as Trinity College Library Dublin announces the Acquisition of the Largest Collection of Samuel Beckett Letters Ever Offered for Public Sale. Dublin, Ireland. 8th October 2014. Photo: Artur Widak / NurPhoto

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#279630

8 October 2014

(L-R) Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor in Irish Writing, Helen Shenton, the new College Librarian and Archivist and Bernard Meehan, Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library Dublin, during a ohotocall as Trinity College Library Dublin announces the Acquisition of the Largest Collection of Samuel Beckett Letters Ever Offered for Public Sale. Dublin, Ireland. 8th October 2014. Photo: Artur Widak / NurPhoto

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#279633

8 October 2014

(L-R) Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor in Irish Writing, Helen Shenton, the new College Librarian and Archivist and Bernard Meehan, Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library Dublin, during a ohotocall as Trinity College Library Dublin announces the Acquisition of the Largest Collection of Samuel Beckett Letters Ever Offered for Public Sale. Dublin, Ireland. 8th October 2014. Photo: Artur Widak / NurPhoto

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