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Magna Carta Regis Johannis XV die Junii AD MCCXV Anno Regni XVII was published in 1816 to mark the…
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New York, NY, February 16, 2012— Animals have provided a particularly fertile source of inspiration for artists, writers, and composers for centuries. From the carving of ancient seals with fearsome lions and mythical beasts, to the depiction of the serpent in representations of Biblical scenes by…
NEW YORK (LAPRS) - LiveAuctioneers.com, the Manhattan-based provider of Internet live-bidding services to more than 1,200 auction houses worldwide, wrapped 2011 with robust 4th-quarter results. During the final three months of last year, there were more than 6.8 million visits to…
Our series profiling the next generation of antiquarian booksellers continues today with Rob Fleck of Oak Knoll Books in New Castle, Delaware. Rob's father, Bob, founded Oak Knoll Books in 1976.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The premier attraction of Waverly’s March 1 Fine and Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction is an 1840 first edition of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. It comes with provenance from the Washington, DC-area collection of Charles Truitt and is estimated at $40,000-$…
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - A rare edition of Ernest Hemingway’s first book, Three Stories & Ten Poems [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923, one of just 300 copies printed brought $68,500 on Feb. 8 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $736,000+ Rare Books Signature® Auction, which took place at the company’s…
Thinking about taking a course at Rare Book School this year? I am! The 2012 course schedule is up, and there are so many to choose from. Our very own columnist, Joel Silver, of IU's Lilly Library is teaching a new course this year, Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books, which sounds…
The exhibition “Ray Safford, Rare Bookman,” at the Grolier Club second floor gallery, offers a look into the storied New York firm of Charles Scribner's Sons and the literary, publishing, and rare-book worlds in turn-of-the-century New York. Ray Safford was a consummate rare bookman and book…
If you enjoy novels with bookish characters and antiquarian themes, have I got a recommendation for you!
New York, NY, February 13, 2012—Beginning tomorrow, The Morgan Library & Museum will exhibit nearly thirty extraordinary works from its extensive collections of printed books, illuminated manuscripts, music, and literary and historical manuscripts. The diverse objects—which include a portion of…
BOOKS:With big book fairs come big books. This year in Pasadena was no exception. Fair highlights included the three volume first edition of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first novel, offered by Biblioctopus for $65,000. Biblioctopus also had to hand an impressive copy of…
