September 11, 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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Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Photographs

Jaeden Yoshikawa

Collector Jaeden Yoshikawa on Real Photo Post Cards and Lovers' Locations

New Exhibition Celebrates Photography in Children's Books

New York Melting Pot Photographs Go On Display

Americana

Scooby Doo #1 (Gold Key, 1970)

TV and Movie Tie-Ins Comics: Five Rare Comics for Collectors

Jack Kerouac's 'On The Road' Scroll and Jim Morrison's Journal to Auction

Special Auctions Celebrate 250th Anniversary of Declaration of Independence

Auctions

Books relating to the library of Robert Hoe

Robert Hoe, Accused Lincoln Conspirator Letter, and The Replacement's Album Art: The Week in Rare Books

The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Medieval Illustrated Hebrew Prayerbook  to Auction with $7m Estimate

Major Auction of Oscar Wilde Manuscripts, Letters, and Photos at Bonhams

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Book People

Stock image old books

Rare Book School Unveils Summer 2026 Course Schedule

National Trust to Encourage Visitors to Use Its Historic Libraries

HS Rare Books' Erin Mae Black on Early Scientific Books, Venice and Diversity in Print Cultures

Rare Books

Ronald Blythe's Fidelity notebook.

British Library Acquires Archive of Rural Life Chronicler Ronald Blythe

Blockbooks, Ragtime, and John Ashbery Drawings at the Morgan 2026

Christmas: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Visual Art

Part of the Winterthur celebrations

Yuletide at Winterthur Offers Literature-Inspired Festive Experiences

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction

Opening Bid of $10m for Frank Frazetta’s 'Conan the Conqueror (Berserker)' Cover Art

Exhibitions

Book Sale at the Forum, 2024

Gail Wegodsky Exhibition Explores Libraries as Sanctuaries

Development of Technology Through History of Printing at the Grolier

'Declaring the Revolution: America’s Printed Path to Independence' at The New York Historical