Serendipitous Ink

P.O. Box 81

Rosewood, Qld 4340

Australia

Queensland's (regional) premier supplier of quality used, collectable and antiquarian books and relics of print. Twitter: @RodneyCooling

Exhibitions

Front cover of Lindisfarne Gospels

Lindisfarne Gospels to go on Display in 2022

Armchair Journeys: Reading the World

A Virtual Snow Day Escape at Cotsen Children’s Library

Photographs

Temple of Baalshamin, Louis Vignes, 1864. Albumen print.

Online Getty Exhibition Explores Palmyra in English and Arabic

National Gallery Acquires its First Charles Aubry Photograph

Steichen’s Personal Copy of Stieglitz’s Camera Work Heads to Auction

Book Arts

West Dean College bookbinders at work

Saving the Art of Bookbinding in the UK

Video Fridays: Women Paper Artists

Center for Book Arts to Host Virtual Reception for Three New Exhibitions

Visual Art

Courtroom sketches by artist Mary Chaney during the Rodney King police brutality trials.

Library of Congress Acquires 200 Sketches of the Rodney King Police Brutality Trials

Vintage Guinness Posters: Down the Rabbit Hole

Winter Offering of Vintage Posters at Swann Galleries February 18

Sponsored

Pablo Neruda

‘Democratized’ Book, Map, and Manuscript Auctions Promise Finds in All Price Ranges

Potter & Potter to Auction Science, Americana, and more at October Sale

Rare Books

Jonkers Rare Books

New Jonkers Rare Books Catalogue Features Nineteenth-Century Literature

The History of Gardening in 12 Books

Submissions Open for UCL’s Student Book Collecting Prize

Book People

Books from Jessica Camille Jordan's prize-winning collection, "Women in Subscription Bookselling."

Jessica C. Jordan Wins California Young Book Collectors Prize

Bookman Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101

Announcing the 2021  Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Maps

Dr. John Snow used this map to further demonstrate that cholera was not caused by foul city air but by something in the water.

Maps in the Time of Cholera

British Library Makes 40,000 Historical Maps Available Online

The Legendary Vladi Collection of Historical Maps at Guernsey’s

Auctions

Roger Broders, Winter Sports in the French Alps

500 Rare and Iconic Posters at PAI on March 14

Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week

600 Lots of Fine Books and Manuscripts at Potter & Potter, March 13

Americana

Thomas Eckert letter and portrait

The Huntington Acquires Telegraph History Archive

The Restoration of a 1774 Congressional Pamphlet Found in a Paper Bag

Collecting & Repatriation