Psalter in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, ca. 1240-1260
Les Enluminures Presents Themed E-Catalogues of Manuscripts
The New York, Chicago, and Paris-based manuscript specialists Les Enluminures have just released…

The Fine Books Blog

April 14, 2021
Ghost Words: Palimpsests on View
A new exhibition staged online by Cambridge University Library looks at the history of palimpsests, and how Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scripts…
April 13, 2021
Brooklyn Artist’s Illuminated Manuscript Honors Dante
For seven years, Brooklyn artist George Cochrane has worked on a contemporary illuminated manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy—all 350,000 characters…
April 12, 2021
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Quite a busy week coming up in the auction rooms:
April 9, 2021
Video Fridays: Hemingway
This past Monday, PBS released the first of its three-part, six-hour documentary exploring the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, directed by Ken…
April 8, 2021
British Book Collector's Private Treasures Now Public Trust
By most accounts, Robert E. Hart (1878-1946) was a private man. A ropemaker by trade, the Blackburn-based bibliophile quietly nourished a desire to…
April 7, 2021
Bright Young Booksellers: Victoria Forsberg-Lary
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Victoria Forsberg-Lary of Cellar Stories in Providence, Rhode Island: How did you get…
April 6, 2021
On View: British Postcards
A new exhibition at The Postal Museum in London looks at more than a century and a half of the British postcard. Wish You Were Here: 151 Years of…
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From the Pages of Fine Books & Collections
Spring 2021
Spring 2021
Chicanx Prints that Slay
Gilberto Cárdenas was a college student in Los Angeles when El Movimiento, or...
Collecting Leaf by Leaf
Wolf von Lojewski spontaneously bought five leaves from the Nuremberg Chronicle...
Edward Carey’s Novels Embrace Art and Found Objects
There really was never any doubt that Edward Carey, author of the new novel The...
Winter 2021
Maps in the Time of Cholera
In the late summer of 1854, an eerie silence descended over Soho in London’s...
‘Democratized’ Book, Map, and Manuscript Auctions Promise Finds in All Price Ranges
Since its founding in 2008, Catawiki—an international online auction platform...
Arsenic and Old Books
In spring 2019, Dr. Melissa Tedone was working to restore an 1857 second...
Autumn 2020
Election Ephemera
In 2008, when Alicia Yin Cheng stumbled across an article in the New Yorker...
A Hollywood Filmmaker’s Beguiling and Inspiring Collection
It began with Begotten, filmmaker E. Elias Merhige’s 1989 black-and-white...
The Wide World of Collegiate Book Collecting
There’s a pervasive notion that young people, screen in hand, do not enjoy...
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Western States Virtual Book Fair Kicks Off April 29
Join more than 100 leading specialists in antiquarian books, fine prints, photography, maps, and…

In The News

April 15, 2021
The Morgan Library Presents Drawings by the Bibiena Family
New York – The Morgan Library & Museum proudly presents Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection, on…
April 12, 2021
Grolier Club Will Host Typography Exhibition
New York — In 1902 the Grolier Club mounted an exhibition entitled “One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature.”  The exhibition and its…
April 9, 2021
The Morgan Library Acquires Group of Exceptional Prints by Martin Puryear
New York – The Morgan Library & Museum proudly announces the acquisition of twenty exceptional prints by Martin Puryear. This group of prints was…
April 8, 2021
Landmarks of American History at Christie’s
New York — Christie’s is pleased to present a selection of Americana texts that mark high points of the 18th to the 20th centuries in the auction…
April 7, 2021
Catawiki Presents its First Exclusive Autograph and Manuscript Selection 
Amsterdam — The Books and Cartography team at Catawiki has continued with its stated aim of sourcing high quality supply, and providing occasional…
April 7, 2021
The Folio Society Publishes the Complete Short Stories of Philip K. Dick
London — In 2019 the Philip K. Dick estate approached The Folio Society with a new idea for a truly spectacular project.
April 7, 2021
Sworders Offers Bedaux Archive
London — A letter from the Nazi high command discussing arrangements for the visit by Edward Duke of Windsor in October 1937 coming for sale in Essex…
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