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In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence the Morgan Library &…
When Charles Dickens began his farewell tour of public performances in 1868 he decided to introduce…
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Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts — Richard Mori of Mori Books of Laconia, New Hampshire and Duane A. Stevens of Wiggins Fine Books SNEAB, ABAA of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts are pleased to announce the inaugural Southern New England Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair to be held on Friday,…
A fairly quiet week coming up in the auction rooms, but here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
This week I am at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School taking a week-long course called Provenance: Tracing Owners and Collections, taught by David Pearson. Topics include "inscriptions, paleography, bookplates, heraldry, bindings as provenance evidence, sale catalogues, tracing owners,…
In 1821, Charles Knight -- who one day would attain a modest measure of fame as publisher of works like The Pictorial Shakespeare (parts, 1838-1841) and the 8-volume Popular History of England (1856-62) -- had recently completed an apprenticeship in his father's bookselling business. Knight,…
...the single best collection I've ever seen--and my job has given me the chance over many years to see a number of very fine collections--was formed by people who knew things I did not and built a collection that it would never have occurred to me to suggest.
--Daniel Traister, Are There New Paths…
Connecticut — The online preview to AntiquarianAuctions.com latest US sale will run from the 27th July until the 3rd August. At 12.30pm EDT on the 3rd the sale will open for bidding: bidding will close for all lots at 12.30pm EDT on Wednesday 10th August.
James Fleming, nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and editor of The Book Collector, published an illuminating book last year that explores a shadowy corner of the 007 universe: how the USSR and other Communist states pushed back on the famous fictional spy. In Bond Behind The Iron Curtain,…
Those stamp-sized bookseller labels often found on the rear paste down end paper of old and rare books are often as artistically interesting as the books' dust jackets; high karat precious gems of graphic design in small settings.
Printing came late to my adopted state.
Leyburn, North Yorkshire — This September, Tennants Auctioneers are delighted to be selling The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist in a single-owner sale.
