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New York-based rare book antiquarian Richard C. Ramer (1942-2026) has died after running his…
Sotheby’s in New York has sold the rare Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Hebrew prayerbook for $6…
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One of the oldest surviving copies of The Aeneid, an illuminated manuscript written and illustrated in Rome sometime around 400 A.D., has been digitized by the Vatican Library and is now freely available to view online.
Boston – The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (BIABF) is making its much-anticipated return to the Hynes Convention Center in downtown Boston from November 11-13, 2022. The 44th Boston Book Fair is the annual fall gathering for book lovers and collectors, featuring the top selection of…
Sometime around 1886, Oscar Wilde was assigned to write a book review of Percy H. Fitzgerald's book, The Book Fancier: or, The romance of book collecting, published that year by S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington in London and Scribner & Welford in New York.
Berkeley, CA — On September 8, 2022, PBA Galleries will host a sale with 107 lots of rare, valuable, important, and profoundly interesting material in all fields. These range from a first edition of the King James Bible to the foundation of Game Theory, with classics from Homer, Aristotle, Virgil…
Book artist and publisher Richard Minsky, long a friend and contributor to FB&C, has just announced his latest project: Catalin Valentin’s Lamb by photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon, printed in an edition of fifteen. The book tells the story behind Fox Solomon’s iconic photo of a woman nursing a…
A new online project to make historic correspondence related to the founding of the Oxford English Dictionary freely available is now underway.
The University of Michigan (U-M) Library announced last week that its 1610 Galileo manuscript—“for almost a century considered one of the jewels of the library’s collection”—is indeed a twentieth-century forgery.
Columbus, OH – This fall, the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) will premiere Wild Things are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak. It will be the first major retrospective of Sendak since his death in 2012, and the largest and most complete exhibition of one of the most celebrated and…
A trio of sales I'll be watching this week features antiquarian books, photography, and a Sunkist archive.
In our summer issue, we took a closer look at the recently published book, Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books (Yale University Press). During the writing and editing process, we tuned into an enlightening presentation by its author, Geoffrey Roberts, professor emeritus of history at…
