Spring 2020 | Fine Books & Collections

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Fine Books Profile

David M. Rubenstein

An exclusive interview with the billionaire book collector and philanthropist about his patriotic collecting philosophy

By Eve M. Kahn

The Collections Behind the Collections

Five libraries "hidden" in NYC museums

By Angela Serratore

Gently Mad

In Pursuit of Papyrus

Revisiting the scrolls buried by Vesuvius

Digest

Painting Slaughterhouse-Five

Mudlarking the Thames

Voices

Building a Bibliosphere

Takeaways from the CODEX Effect Symposium

In View

New (Photo) Journalism

Danny Lyon's Bikeriders and beyond

Beyond the Basics

A Foliosity of Firsts

Taking the broad view of "firsts"

Fine Maps

Whitewashing the Map

How cartography advanced women's suffrage

Sold@Auction

Tigers, Dragons, and a Raven

A roundup of first editions, manuscripts, maps, and fine art

On the Block

Military Might

Targeting Lord Cottesloe's books

How I Got Started

Little Women

Collector Cathlin M. Davis

NYC Rare Book Week Book Fairs

Our guide to the book fairs, auctions & exhibitions in NYC, March 4-11

Collecting Feminism One Book (or Ribbon) at a Time

This year’s suffrage centennial puts the spotlight on women’s history, four centuries of which are preserved in the Dobkin Family Collection of…

Beyond Silent Spring

April 22, 2020, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day

Renaissance RE-Invention

Examining the "Nova Reperta"

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