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The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian…
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Fine Books & Collections' autumn issue arrives in mailboxes this week and next. Unintentionally, 'destinations' became a theme for this issue. For our cover story, literary tourist Nigel Beale takes us around Prague, trailing author Frank Kafka and artist John Heartfield.
Amsterdam – Catawiki is proud to continue our tradition of offering exciting and high quality books and manuscripts in Exclusive auctions.
We have launched a large selection of beautiful books, maps, manuscripts and autographs in our latest “Exclusive Auction” With a wealth of beautiful…
For seven years, Brooklyn artist George Cochrane has worked on a contemporary illuminated manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy—all 350,000 characters of the epic poem, plus illustrations, in the original Italian.
Boston — A King Henry VIII signed document discussing sponsoring the feast day of St. George sold for $66,435 according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The one-page vellum manuscript signed "Henry R," is dated July 26, 1536. The document by which King Henry VIII orders the treasurer and…
Promotional piece for the Vincent Price films "The Fly" and "Return of the Fly," offered as part of a large archive of British film promotional material at Dominic Winter Auctioneers this week.
While researching my recent posts about bestsellers from 100 years ago (see parts 1 and 2), I came across the blog "Great Penformances" run by Linda Aragoni. Linda reviews vintage novels on her blog on the anniversary of the year they appeared on the bestseller lists.
Is letter writing an art form? Whether through penmanship alone or added doodles and illuminations, Pen to Paper: Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art (Princeton Architectural Press, $27.50) "offers examples of how writing a letter can be an artistic act,"…
London — Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair, organised by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA), will return from 16-18 September for its 65th edition, with 120 international dealers exhibiting at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.
In addition to the many returning exhibitors, Firsts London…
A research trip to the Beinecke Library at Yale University gave me the opportunity to visit its new exhibition, The World in Maps: 1400-1600, showcasing historically significant manuscript maps and travel documents from the late medieval and early modern period.
Catskill, NY — For a brief twenty years as the 19th turned into the 20th century, Americans were often beguiled, entertained, and sometimes dazzled by the attractively designed and often gold-laden covers of the books that they read. In a period when art was breaking from academy-bound tradition in…
