September 2020 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Video Fridays: Conserving Rare Books at King’s College, Cambridge

Spend nine minutes gazing at some beautiful books and learning how King’s College Library conserves a collection of rare English literature and theology books that belonged to an early nineteenth-century college provost. A First Folio and Jane Austen first editions are among them.

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Letters of Gold Rush miner Warren H. Porter, with the report of his fatal shooting by an outlaw, 17 items, 1850-55. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.

Gold Rush Letters and Diaries Lead Swann's Americana Auction

'Over the Rainbow' Song Contract and Mervyn LeRoy's Script for 'The Wizard of Oz' to Auction

Gordon Lightfoot Set Lists and Writing Desks to Auction

Book People

Cover of Book Curses book

Book Curses, Literary Tourism, and Academic Spies: November Books Roundup

Desert Wind Rare Books' Christian Fassbender on the Occult Book Market, CABS, and Collecting King Arthur

Campaign Hope to Return 13th Century Sarum Master Bible to Salisbury Cathedral

Book Arts

Blue-Green Abelard

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Exhibitions

Kings Library tower in the British Library

16th Century Gardening Manual, Secret War Maps, and Football Fanzines in British Library's 2025 Exhibitions

David King’s Small Press Publications and Zines Celebrated in New Exhibition

Bodleian Libraries’ Kafka Archive Debuts in the US

Auctions

The letter from Ernie Wise to Morecambe (left) and from comedian Ronnie Barker (right)

Comedian Eric Morecambe's Joke Books, Writing Desk, and Letters to Auction

Traquair Illuminated Leaves, Amulet Prayer Roll, Twain Photograph, Mormon Missionary Diary: Auction Preview

The Federalist Essays Sold for $203,200

Rare Books

Northampton Book Fair

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Northampton Book Fair

Burt Bacharach Archive Acquired by Library of Congress

Caxton Chaucer Leaf: Rare Book of the Week

Maps

Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia macrocosmica after conservation

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Andreas Bureus' Rare Map of Nordic Countries Goes Under the Hammer

Photographs

Cartier-Bresson's New Orleans, Louisiana, 1947

Cartier-Bresson and Chris Killip Lead Auction of Eric Franck’s Photography Collection

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

Photos of Truman Capote and Joan Didion in Major Irving Penn Retrospective

Visual Art

Teamwork Builds Ships Color lithograph poster by William Dodge Stevens

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

Earliest Engravings by William Blake Uncovered Using New Scanning Technology

Leslie Ragan Calendar Art for the New York Central Railway to Auction