It has long been understood that emotion and logic interact. You learn by observing and repeating and incorporating what you have observed. When your intelligence is tested, such tests capture how much you retained. While primary intelligence is important, every human being also has an alternative lens through which we use our intelligence, their emotional intelligence. In simple terms, your intuition is in constant interaction with the facts you observe.
I’ve always had deep access to my intuition. By experience, I’ve concluded my traditional and emotional intelligence exist in a 9 to ...
The AI Chatbot (think ChatGPT) has suddenly become the go-to source for inquiries on the internet. A year ago, if you searched Google for something you were content to get a bunch of links where yo...
A settlement has been reached in one of the major court cases where authors have sued AI program makers and their large language models and chatbots. In this case, a class action suit was brought o...
THE WEEK THAT WAS at the Auctions by Hammer Price is a new feature of the Rare Book Hub Monthly. In addition to our weekly auction statistics and links which many of you already receive as part of ...
Great Forgers and Fabulous Fakes by Charles Hamilton. Printed in 1980.
Advice that’s still fresh today.
Collecting paper has long been complicated. There’s a lot of it, many ways to approach i...
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” That is one of...
William Reese Company
Americana – Rare Books – Literature
American Art – Photography
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William Reese Company Relocates to New York, Consolidating Its Leadership Position i...
Albert Einstein's violin is coming under the hammer at Dominic Winter's in South Cerney, Cirencester, on Wednesday 8 October, with an estimate of £200,000-300,000.
The 1894 violin, made by the...
Every community has its local eccentric. There's nothing terribly wrong with them, and they certainly aren't dangerous, they're just a little different. That could describe Walter Wakefield, propri...
Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana
2 OCT 10AM – 16 OCT 10AM EDT | ONLINE 23736
Christie’s Fine Printed Books Manuscripts including Americana auction will ta...
LONDON
Royal College of Physicians Museum
A BODY OF KNOWLEDGE - 500 Years of Book Collecting
Through July 23, 2026
The Royal College of Physicians Museum, 11 St. Andrews Place, London hosts a...
Ransom Center at UT, Austin offers up to 50 Fellowships for 2026-2027. Two online info sessions with application details scheduled for Oct. 2 and Oct 7. Deadline for applications is Nov. 3, 2025, 5...
Old time people used to say, sweet nanny goat have a running belly! This Jamaican saying that Bob Marley used for his first hit song (Simmer Down, 1963) means: the grass is always greener on the ot...
Mapping from Mexico: New Narratives for the History of Cartography
—The 22nd Nebenzahl Lecture Series
The 22nd Nebenzahl Lecture Series
at the Newberry Library
Oct 16–Oct 18, 2025
Hybrid – Rug...
In the latest saga of the overdue library book, the San Antonio Public Library took its place near the top. They recently received a book in the mail that was being returned 82 years late. Either s...
This month we review three new bookseller catalogues. Old West Books takes us back to the days when the West was young with their 70th catalogue on the American West. The George S. MacManus Company...
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Queen Elizabeth I. A queen’s defense of the realm, and the birth of the British Empire. $500,000 to $700,000.
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000.
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.
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Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: These are the Times that Try Men's Souls, Thomas Paine. $80,000-$120,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Manuscrpit from Aboard The Discovery, Signed by George Vancouver. $80,000-$120,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Exceedingly Rare Holograph Fragment of James Cook's Logbook. $80,000-$120,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Thomas Lechford: Important First-Hand Account of Life in New England. $40,000-$60,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: The First Expanded Edition of Common Sense, Thomas Paine. $30,000-$50,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Album of Exceptional California Lettersheets. $20,000-$30,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: An Exceptional Group of Gold Rush Letters, c. 1849-1850. $20,000-$30,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Mather's King Phillips War Tract 1639-1723. $15,000-$25,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: The First Contemporaneous Account of the Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather. $15,000-$25,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Poor Richard's Almanack 1749, Benjamin Franklin. $15,000-$20,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Fruits of Mormonism by Nelson Slater. $15,000-$25,000
Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin, Across the Plains in '49 by Emanuel Goughnour. $12,000-$18,000
![<b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d61e5df0-f7df-4ff3-b120-69c4c4ded5d5.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3d91ed5b-6dab-40a2-8ec2-3ba57b219840.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15:</b> [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.")
