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Recent Entries

Maps

Olaus Magnus’ Carta marina

Cartographer Olaus Magnus' Map of Sea Monsters

Maps in the Time of Cholera

Sponsored

Maurice Sendak's Poster Illustration

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

For Those Who Want Choices

The Catawiki Books Department Expands Its Reach

Americana

Charles A. Lindbergh, with Spirit of St. Louis in background, May 31, 1927

For Sale: Charles Lindbergh’s Book Contract

5 Early 19th-Century Laws for Library Borrowers

1774 Printing of Phillis Wheatley Letter Acquired by MoAR

Photographs

An installation photograph from the posthumous exhibition of Manet's work at the École des Beaux-Arts

The Morgan Digitizes Tabarant Collection of Manet Photographs

Video Fridays: PhotoBook Club

Picturing California in a New Photobook & Exhibition

Book People

The interior of Emily Dickinson’s Amherst, Massachusetts, bedroom

Emily Dickinson, Drama Queen

The Women Behind James Joyce

Bright Young Collectors: Read Brown

Rare Books

Antiquarian Books II

Antiquarian Book Fairs Summer 2022: UK Edition

Antiquarian Book Fairs Summer 2022: US Edition

Video Fridays: The Fisher Library Rare Book Library

Exhibitions

The Morgan Library & Museum

The Morgan Library Celebrates the Building of a Book-Lover’s Paradise

Opening at the Rosenbach: 18 Reasons to Read Ulysses

Exhibit Marks 200 Years of Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted

Book Arts

Shakespeare scholar Ella Hawkins bakes and designs intricately decorated cookies (or biscuits) that take a page from antiquarian books and medieval manuscripts.

The Art of Bookish Baking

Postcard from CODEX 2022: “Words on the Edge”

Early Printed Books at Swann, Featuring Collection of Ken Rapoport

Auctions

Kelmscott Press printing of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Kelmscott Chaucer Headlines PBA Galleries Auction on June 2

William S. Reese Collection at Christie's

Early Bob Dylan Poems Among Highlights of Music Auction

Visual Art

Jessie Willcox Smith, The Green Door cropped

Golden Age Illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith: A Perennial Favorite

Record for Sendak's Wild Things at Heritage's $6-Million Auction

Folio Society Publishes Limited Edition of The Lord of the Rings