Valuable Books and Manuscripts

A feast for book collectors: the crème de la crème of French cookery writing

New media artist ThankYouX: ‘Creating NFTs gave me that same feeling I got when I went out at night to paint the streets’

Harry Seymour

Abstraction in black and white: Willem de Kooning’s Orestes crystallised a new era in painting

The Einstein-Besso Manuscript: the only surviving work detailing the genesis of general relativity in private hands

Virtual tour: Classic Week at Christie’s London

‘Hereinafter learn all that is known about cocktails’ — a signed limited edition of the bartender’s bible

The origin of a naturalist? Charles Darwin’s earliest surviving microscope

What I’ve learned: Thomas Venning, Head of Books and Manuscripts

Father of the Beats: 10 things to know about Jack Kerouac