Rare Books
The first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language has been loaned by Westminster Abbey to St Davids Cathedral where it has gone on public display for the first time this week.&…
This week's Rare Book of the Week is a presentation copy of Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Pilote de guerre inscribed to husband and wife scriptwriters Dido Freire and Jean Renoir.
Australia’s longest-running and most popular book exhibition, World of the Book, is celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary at State Library Victor
Ten handwritten letters by Swedish Hollywood star Greta Garbo
The Bodleian Libraries’ exhibition Treasured which opens today features a range of the most fascinating books, manuscripts and items in its coll
In an act of remarkable generosity, the bibliophile and
In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated manuscript with religious imagery and scenes of everyday life in German-occupied Alsace.
For centuries, evidence of a lost technology was tucked away in archives and libraries around the world.
The British Library has acquired five exceptional medieval manuscripts from the private library at Longleat House, providing fresh insight into Jewish-Christian rela
Bernard Quaritch's May New Acquisitions list is a curated selection of 32 freshly catalogued items. "Amongst them you will find works on duelling, drawing, and dowries for spinsters; translations by…
