Current Events & Trends | September 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Handling Your Books

How do you handle your rare books and collections? Like Harvard, of course.

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Book People

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Booking Opens for London Rare Books School Summer Courses

Rare Books Specialist "B" Dry Goods Opens in Brooklyn

Asmaa Walton and the Black Art Library: Bright Young Librarians

Book Arts

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A Humument Book Artist Tom Phillips Dies at 85

Picture Book Art: The Little Prince, Maurice Sendak, and Hilary Knight

Persepolis Original Book Art to be Sold by Marjane Satrapi

Americana

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Charles Bukowski Archive of Signed First Editions, Original Art, and Letters to Auction

Five Rare Books for Collectors: African Americana

American Gold Rush Miner Diary Tops Americana Auction

Exhibitions

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One-Day-Only Exhibition of First Printing of U.S. Constitution

British Empire Exhibition Features The Slave Bible

Rare Papyrus Fragment of the Gospel of John Goes on Show

Maps

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18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Cartographer Olaus Magnus' Map of Sea Monsters

Auctions

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Terence Conran’s Private Library Comes to Auction

Scott of the Antarctic's Dying Letter Sets Polar Record

Brahms Letters and Rutter’s Ukrainian Prayer Manuscript On Sale

Visual Art

Sir Quentin Blake, Parent and Child No.3

Birthday Auction in Support of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Disney Classics and Van Gogh Autograph at Auction

Virginia Woolf Statue Unveiled

Sponsored

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Photographs

Paris Photobooks award shortlist

Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2022 Shortlist

The Getty Acquires Eugène Atget Photographs

The Morgan Digitizes Tabarant Collection of Manet Photographs

Rare Books

a rare Caroline Herschel manuscript on her discovery of a comet

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Women in Literature, Art and Science

Call To Help Save Historic Newspaper Collection

Dickens’ Household Items Head to Auction