September 11, 2020 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Video Fridays: Conserving Rare Books at King’s College, Cambridge

Spend nine minutes gazing at some beautiful books and learning how King’s College Library conserves a collection of rare English literature and theology books that belonged to an early nineteenth-century college provost. A First Folio and Jane Austen first editions are among them.

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Rare Books

Jane Austen autograph cut signature ("your affecte Aunt/ J. Austen")

Autograph Album Featuring Jane Austen: Rare Book of the Week

How Palm-Leaf Manuscripts Preserve Indonesia’s Heritage

Jack Kerouac's On The Road Scroll Sold for Recordbreaking $12m

Auctions

The March 19 auction includes this exterior wire photograph view of Lewis Michaux's African National Memorial Bookstore, a Harlem institution from 1932 to 1974 (New York, July 23, 1964)

Swann Galleries Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Annual Printed & Manuscript African Americana Auctions

King James I, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington Lead Autographs Sale

Illustrated Edition of First Cookbook Written by an American Heads PBA Galleries Sale

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Book People

Ephemera Fair 2026 poster

ESA Ephemera Fair 2026 Opens Today

Future of William Wordsworth's Rydal Mount Home Secured

Edinburgh Rare Book Fair 2026 Details

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Visual Art

Ester Hernandez

A Chicana Printmaker’s Radical Archive

Matisse’s Late-Career Cut-Outs Show an Artist Overcoming Limitations

Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Americana

Clemens business card

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Photographs

A group of 14 Carte de Visites of Abraham Lincoln and family

Cartes de Visite: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

Getty Acquires Photographer Irving Penn’s 'Cuzco' Work

Exhibitions

First edition of Sean O’Casey’s play The Plough and the Stars, a Tragedy in Four Acts (1926), inscribed to painter Augustus John

New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival

National Library of Scotland’s Centenary Tour Heads to Shetland

'Pets & their People' Exhibition Launches Season of the Natural World Series