They are popular not just for their literary value but for their price tags. These books are priceless pieces of history.

Books, manuscripts, photographs ... Pakistan and Afghanistan for over 200 years from the 16th century. As the name suggests, The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence focuses on the ...

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from the 16th century that depict a host of truly fantastical beasts.

It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...

The 13-page manuscript, valued at nearly $20,000, had been housed in the National Archive of Paraguay since at least 1870 until it was stolen over a decade ago. It next surfaced at an auction house in ...

"We've got everything from a 1450 illuminated manuscript, which is extremely rare, all the way through the modern literature" said Ms Cooper. Among the collection is a first edition set of Thomas ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...

“The exquisite detailing of Christ’s features, hair, tears, and bloodstained forehead commend this as a major masterpiece of 16th-century Spanish painting, and a powerful proclamation of the Catholic ...