Here is an interesting article about a large collection of rare books that were donated to University of Chicago by a former student. This article was recently published in the Chicago Tribune, written by a reporter named Cindy Dampier. The student was one of…
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Joins 1st International Provenance Research Day On March 5, 2019, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers held the symposium Who Owned this? Libraries and the Rare Book Trade Consider Issues Surrounding Provenance, Theft and Forgery at the renowned New…
Here is a picture of Painted Renaissance volumes currently on view at Yale’s Beinecke Library now, through until April 21. A dozen volumes on display at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library are shelved side-by-side with their fore edges, not their spines, facing out. It…
The 52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held on February 8-10, 2019, at the Oakland Marriott City Center. Oakland Marriott City Center1001 BroadwayOakland, CA 94607United States The 52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair, recognized as one of the world’s largest and most…
Amazon is facing backlash from hundreds of antiquarian book dealers across 24 countries who are vowing to pull books off a website owned by Amazon for a week in protest of a move by the website to ban sellers from specific countries around the…
