Fairs | March 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Florida Antiquarian Book Fair This Weekend

Coming up this weekend, the 30th annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. In honor of that, the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association has posted an interview on the fair's beginnings with Michael Slicker, ABAA proprietor of Lighthouse Books in St. Petersburg, FL.

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Maps

John Speed's atlas

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut

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

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Rare Books

Cromwell's book of hours

Thomas Cromwell’s Holbein Portrait Book of Hours Discovered

Unique Record of Medieval Live Comedy Performance Identified in a 15th Century Manuscript

UNESCO Status for First Voyage Around the Globe, Hikayat Aceh, and Augustine Gospels

Exhibitions

Digital Storytelling at the British Library

New Interactive Exhibition Showcases How Technology Is Transforming Storytelling

New Exhibition Looks at Giving Books as Gifts

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Atlanticus' to be Displayed in the U.S.

Book Arts

John Milton biscuits design developed in collaboration with Milton’s Cottage.

Celebrate National Biscuit Day with Remarkable John Milton Biscuits

Kickstarter Tribute to Library of Congress Rare Books Expert Mark Dimunation

Countdown begins to Festival of Libraries

Photographs

The signed FDR and Churchill photograph

Newly Discovered World War II Document Signed by FDR and Winston Churchill

Photographic Evidence of Lartigue’s Daredevil Pet to Auction

ICP Photobook Fest Weekend Preview

Sponsored

reading a book

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Manuscript lyrics for On the Radio

Donna Summer's Handwritten Lyrics to Auction

Manuscript Fragment from The Scarlet Letter Leads Nathaniel Hawthorne Auction

Bibliophile's Lifetime African-American Collection Heads to Brown University

Book People

George C. Wolfe working with Gregory Hines during a rehearsal for the Broadway production of the musical Jelly's Last Jam by Martha Swope, 1992.

New York Public Library Acquires George C. Wolfe Archive

Rare Book School Shares Summer 2023 Lecture Series

'Book Parts' Now Out in Paperback

Visual Art

Norman Thelwell Saves the Planet poster

Cartoonist Norman Thelwell Saves the Planet

Gould, Audubon, and Lear in New Exhibit Celebrating Writing About Birds

Books and Reading Centrestage at Chelsea Flower Show 2023

Auctions

A page from Morgan's manuscript

Previously Unknown John Morgan Medical Manuscript to Auction

Tolkien Letters On His Own Hobbitness and the Creation of 'The Lord of the Rings' at Bonhams

Charlotte Gilman Perkins Family Archive Tops 'Focus on Women' Auction