Posts Tagged ‘asia-pacific’
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
A collection of manuscripts previously owned by kings, bishops and members of the aristocracy is expected to fetch up to £16m when it is sold at auction in London.

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Rare manuscripts to be auctioned (BBC News)
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Some of Wales' oldest books saved from being sold

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Rare reads (BBC News)
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
A rare copy of the first comic book to feature Superman is sold on the internet for $1m (£646,000).

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Rare copy of the first Superman comic sold for $1m (BBC News)
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Rare travel explorers' books sold at auction

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Cook books (BBC News)
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
A rare early edition of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, given to the real life Alice, is to be auctioned in the USA.

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Rare Alice books up for auction (BBC News)
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Researchers say that classic authors' use of rare words provides a means to linguistically "fingerprint" them.

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Rare words 'author's fingerprint' (BBC News)
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Three first-edition Beatrix Potter books are among a number of items stolen in a burglary in Warwickshire.

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Rare Beatrix Potter books stolen (BBC News)
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
A first edition of Charles Darwin's Origin Of Species, which was kept in a toilet, is to be sold at auction.

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The rare Darwin first edition that had been kept in a toilet (BBC News)
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
The Da Vinci Code author's books are being donated to the charity more than any other author's, according to a nationwide survey of its shops.

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Mystery of which author is Oxfam's 'most donated' solved (BBC News)
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Rarely seen images from the early days of photography will be revealed in the British Library's first ever major photographic exhibition.

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Library reveals rare photographs (BBC News)
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