Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Provenance and Security in the Rare Book Trade ILAB Symposium
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) is inviting booksellers, collectors, librarians, and anybody handling antiquarian material to attend its sy
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New Exhibition of Printing History Opens in Paris
In Imprimer! L'Europe de Gutenberg (Printing! Gutenberg’s Europe), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) looks back at the innovation of printing by tracing the history of its development and…
Paperoles from the Proust collection
Drafts Show Evolution of Proust’s Madeleine Moment
The iconic sponge cake in Marcel Proust’s masterpiece
A Winning Roll of the Dice for Stéphane Mallarmé at Sotheby’s
Paris, October 2015—Sotheby’s dispersed Stéphane Mallarmé's library: a rare and perfectly preserved collection unveiled to the public for the first time.