"One of the world's rarest books - a belligerent 42-page rant written, published and signed by Galileo in 1607 - is likely to be the star of the Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia in London next month."
"One of the world's rarest books - a belligerent 42-page rant written, published and signed by Galileo in 1607 - is likely to be the star of the Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia in London next month."
"Mr. Privett enjoys reading, "tinkering on older vehicles, mucking about in boats," walking the family dog and collecting rare books, especially those related to Anglican history and theology."
"Between leaving OMD in New York at the end of 2003 and joining research and auditing firm Billetts in April last year, Green spent nearly four months building a maze at his farm in Devon."
"My number one interest at the moment is developing my garden," he says. His other passions include rare book collecting and French and Chinese art house cinema."
"Running concurrently at Olympia (June 9-12) is the Antiquarian Book Fair, once again the most important fair of its kind in Europe, if not the world, and again hosting over 100 dealers from across the globe."
"THERE is a treasure house in Panjab University that is not well known. Its at the AC Joshi library which houses a one-room section that has 20,000 rare books and 1,491 manuscripts, a priceless storehouse of ancient wisdom."
"ST. LOUIS - Sixty years after four priceless books were retrieved from a burning castle in the final days of World War II, Germany has regained possession of the century-old books."
"ROME -- A 17th-century book seized by the Nazis was returned to Rome's Jewish community on Monday, one of thousands Jewish volumes taken by looting German forces during World War II."
" I had to get it: an old book on Alfred Lyall. It was irresistible. I don’t know what it is, but antiquarian books, especially those dealing with the history of the sub-continent, continue to obsess me. Perhaps it has to do with going back to one’s roots, and a way of reconnecting with the motherland."
"In the final days of World War II, the books were retrieved from a burning castle in Stuttgart, Germany, by an Army captain from St. Louis, John Hewitt Doty. They were returned to German possession Thursday by two of Doty's nephews, who did so without compensation."
"The pages are from hand-written books composed between 1100 and 1550 in Germany, France, Italy, England, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Otto Ege, a book collector in the early 1900s, tore one page from 50 different books from this era and packaged them into 40 boxes, Stoicheff said."
"A new kind of book buyer is roving the aisles at local library sales, looking to turn a profit by snapping up used books at cheap prices and selling them online."
"A book which escapologist Harry Houdini gave to a shopkeeper after the man hid him from a mob of fans is to be sold."
"Next month, in Christie's big sale of valuable books and manuscripts, the highlight is a rare offprint of the famous volume 17 of Annalen der Physik, in which Albert Einstein's three great ideas - on the special theory of relativity, the law of mass-energy equivalence (E=mc2), and the Brownian Theory of motion - were revealed. The occasion marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's breakthrough. "
"CAIRO: – In one of the biggest e-projects in the Muslim world, Al-Azhar has launched a long-awaited Web site featuring digital copies of its huge and rare library."
"His latest novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, is about a rare-book dealer who loses his 'autobiographical' memory - he doesn't know his own name or recognise his wife - but still has his 'semantic' memory and so is able to quote from every book he has ever read. The hero is the same age as Eco and has had similar life experiences. There is, then, I presume, much of his own autobiography in this book."
"NEW YORK - A previously unknown play by Jack Kerouac, written in the same year as his beatnik classic novel "On The Road" was published, has been discovered languishing in a warehouse more than three decades after his death. "
"Langley, BC: Obtaining original manuscripts from the Greek New Testament normally requires traveling to numerous access-limited locations worldwide, but now it can also be done with one visit to Canada’s Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, near Vancouver."
"That last phrase, common throughout the Beat era of the '50s and the hippie movement of the '60s, has become a bumper sticker cliché now, but perhaps that's because it's still neccesary."
"With a card catalogue room the length of a football field, there's plenty of material to care for: Some of the oldest bibles printed, letters between kings and the world's largest collection of ancient maps, to name a few."
"The reader who starts a Cliff Janeway mystery might expect it to be a highbrow exercise since Janeway owns a bookstore in Denver that specializes in first editions and rare volumes."
"WASHINGTON - The culture and landscape of the arctic island Greenland are featured in new exhibits that opened Friday at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History."
"The Burns Library at Boston College looks at Virdung and the work he inspired in ''The Legacy of Sebastian Virdung: Rare Books and Music and Instruments From the Collection of Frederick R. Selch."
"When Hans Christian Andersen wrote the fairytale of the ugly duckling, he was speaking about himself."
"A new exhibition at the British Library reveals the strange and insecure man behind the stories that captivated generations of children."
"Residents of Basgo, a small hamlet in the northern mountainous arid land of Ladakh, have devoted themselves to preserving rare ancient Buddhist manuscripts, some dating back to the 10th century."
"Archimedes' amazingly advanced ideas have been lost and found several times throughout the ages. Now scientists are employing modern technology—including X-ray fluorescence at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory ( SSRL )—to completely read the Archimedes Palimpsest, the only source for at least two previously unknown treatises thought out by Archimedes in the third century B.C."
"Fung Ming-chu, head of NPM's Books and Documents Department, gave a presentation titled "Chinese Rare Books and Regional Studies on Southeast Asia: A Look at Relevant Research across the Taiwan Strait over the Past Two Decades."
"Bodini, an aging rare-book dealer, awakes in a Milan hospital having lost his memory, save the recollection of all literature he's ever read. Bodini retreats to the old family home to piece through old newspapers, comics, records, photos and diaries, and reconstructs his past in narrative and graphic form."
"Museums throughout England are joining forces to pool resources, set up databases of their collections and share and display artefacts that in some cases have never been exhibited before, thanks to new grants totalling nearly GBP250,000 awarded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)."
"I was a big comic-book collector for about 15 years and then they became so pricey it was like collecting original art. As a kid, I loved the old black-and-white Superman but I wasn't really encouraged to have them in the house. My parents thought they were for people that couldn't read real books."
"Manipur has been on the boil with the radical Metei Erol Eyek Loinasillon Apunba Lup (MEELAL) or the United Forum for Safeguarding Manipuri Script and Language demanding the introduction of Manipur's ancient Meiteimayek script in place of the existing Bengali script."
"On March 24, Conroy attended a ceremony at the Hall of Fame located in the Hargrett Rare Book Library at the University of Georgia. Others inducted were the late journalists Ralph McGill and Henry Grady. Relatives of both men were there."
"A number of books from the library of Easton Neston will be sold alongside photographs and manuscripts. Aside from the books acquired by the family, the library also includes works from the Hesketh library at Rufford Hall."
"More than 40 book dealers from Michigan and throughout the Midwest will be offering fine used, rare and out-of-print books, maps and prints for sale at the 27th annual Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. May 22 at the Michigan Union, 530 S. State St"
"GARDINER, Mont. (AP) --A new center housing Yellowstone National Park's 5.3 million-piece collection of artifacts and archives is set to open this week near the park's northern entrance, giving the public one-stop access to items previously scattered in the park, officials said Monday."
"We not only have music treatises but also books on grammar, mathematics and more practical subjects like fencing and fishing. The surviving books point out the diversity and spirit of the Renaissance men and women doing the reading," said Weiss, a musicologist at Peabody. "In the days following the birth of printing, people were hungry for learning, building their libraries with theoretical and practical sources."
"The renovation, by Italian architect Renzo Piano, will turn the Morgan's three buildings into "a cultural village," library director Charles Pierce said during a recent tour of the construction site. "It will be a setting for the enjoyment of beauty and the contemplation of some of the sublime achievements of Western civilization."
"(SANA): The authorities in occupied Jammu and Kashmir have stepped up efforts to trace a priceless 17th century manuscriptof of Holy Quran written by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb which went missing from the Sri Pratap Singh Musuem here in September 2003."
"Richard C. Kessler, a 58-year-old globe-trotting hotelier with a Savannah drawl who collects art, instruments, watches, bronzes, rare books and other fine items, represents a new kind of developer for downtown St. Petersburg."
"A digitisation programme for converting rare books and manuscripts into digital format has been initiated at the National Library, Kolkata, Rampur Raza Library and Khuda Baksh Library."
"BENTONVILLE — The Walton Family Foundation announced Thursday it has purchased the historic American work of art "Kindred Spirits" and will permanently house Asher B. Durand’s masterwork in a major new art museum to be built in Bentonville."
"The Idaho Center for the Book, also known as ICB, is also part of this building and probably the origin of Murphy’s guess. ICB hosts traveling book exhibits and from now until June 1 they are hosting a collection of books and drawings by autistic, self-taught Idaho artist/bookmaker James Castle (1899-1977). Castle created his art pieces utilizing scraps of paper and saliva. In the late 1940s, he made a series of drawings of colorful houses, referred to as “Dream Houses"
"The service contains thousands of images of rare books, manuscripts, maps and paintings considered to have artistic value. So far there are around 14,000 images available through the service but the library wants to increase this figure to over 100,000."
"House museums range from the vast and ostentatious to the small and modest. Those looking for grandeur find Leighton House Museum, the former studio-house of the Victorian artist
Frederic, Lord Leighton, hard to beat. Here, high Victorian is played out in sumptuous interiors such as the glittering Arab Hall – covered with deep blue tiles that Lord Leighton commissioned from 19th-century ceramic artist
William de Morgan."
"NEW YORK.- Spanning nearly eight centuries, from scribal to print culture, the exhibition I Am the Rose: Passover Imagined in the Collections of The New York Public Library brings together a treasure trove of Passover-related manuscripts, books, and prints."
"But in a victory for "progress", next month sees the official opening of a £3.1 million research centre, 100 yards from William Wordsworth's Dove Cottage at Grasmere, that will help the literary shrine transform itself into the world's leading centre for British Romanticism."
"NEW YORK (AP) -- The Museum of Biblical Art, one of the few in America to explore the theme, opens today with a striking show of works on scriptural motifs by self-taught, Southern folk artists."
"Using non-invasive analytical techniques, a team of researchers in England say they have for the first time precisely identified the pigments used to illustrate seven Gutenberg Bibles located in Europe. The findings provide chemical data that could ultimately help preserve and restore these rare historic treasures as well as provide insights into the printing practices of early Europe, they say"
"The collection is full of firsts: the first American book on viticulture, by John Adlum (1823); the first African-American cookbook, by Malinda Russell, published in Paw Paw, Mich. (1866); and the Jewish Cookery Book, the first such in America, written by Esther Levy (1871)."
"To book collectors, it is all about first editions. To periodical enthusiasts, the quest is for that elusive Volume 1, No. 1."
"In a rare opportunity for investors, collectors and Batman fans around the globe, the World's Greatest Batman Collection is being offered for sale. This once-in-a-lifetime sale will coincide with next month's release of the new Batman movie, "Batman Begins."
"That's the way I'm often greeted by my friend Bob Bolen. The former Fort Worth mayor is, like me, an incurable bibliophile."
"Each of us has the habit of keeping two or three books going at any given moment, alternating back and forth until they're mentally devoured and we've moved on to others."
"Print version: The true bibliophile may purchase the 20-volume set for $1,500."
"Last week the greatest treasure of the tiny tribal state, a library containing thousands of rare manuscripts and books, dating hundreds of years back, was burnt down. The physical losses ran into several crores of rupees, but the real value can never be calculated, as the national treasure of the rarest of manuscripts and literature is lost forever."
"It was burnt because the local Meitei movement, actively supported by the Communists and the church, wanted the Bengali script to be replaced by Meitei and the library contained books in the Bengali script..."
"CATSKILL - The New York Public Library is planning to sell 19 of its artworks, including one with ties to the Catskill region, to fund its research libraries."
"Honolulu real estate developer and book lover Don Graham, who used Sanchez's services to restore a collection now valued at $10 million, narrowed the assessment of Sanchez. "He's the finest there is," Graham said."
"The exhibition will bring together rare books and manuscripts from the British Library collection, and loans which have never before left his native Denmark, including portraits, caricatures - one of a small boy and his dog running away in horror when he became a fashionably hairstyled society figure - and paper cutouts he made to entertain children in a lifetime as a professional house guest."
"16,000 volumes of "Dunhuang surviving works" collected in National Library of China are in great need of immediate reparation, the 5,000 metres long ancient text in particular. The total amount of ancient documents in various libraries and museums across the country stands at 300 million, most of which are serious damaged, demanding immediate and effective reparation. However, the special personnel qualified for the reparation of ancient documents in National Library of China are less than 10 and those less than 100 nationwide.
"The Protestant museum uses original books, manuscripts, paintings and engravings to trace the history of the Protestant movement, initiated in the city by French theologian John Calvin in the 16th century."
"There was "almost a sense of panic" on the telephone lines during the final days of "The Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibition, as people called to find out how to buy tickets before it was too late, a Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center official said Sunday afternoon as some of the final patrons filed into the exhibit in downtown Mobile."
"Hall opened the Ithaca auction house in January in a 5,000-square-foot facility on Danby Road (Route 96B) about three miles south of Ithaca College. The building houses a gallery where buyers rummage through sale items, a "rare room" for more expensive offerings and auction space for about 125 customers. Auctions are scheduled about every three weeks but the growing business may require more frequent sales."
"A RARE set of cricket's bibles, the Wisden Almanacks, that belonged to legendary cricketer WG Grace are up for sale for a six figure price."
"URBANA – A donation of Romanian poetry and literature to the University of Illinois Library will strengthen its Balkan collection and provide researchers with a look at issues faced by Romania just after the fall of Communism."
"Just as America's magazine illustrators depicted the various aspects of life in their time, so, too, did 18th-century Japanese woodblock artists. Their works showed lifestyles, religious beliefs and landscapes for the growing class of wealthy mechants. At that time there was also an increase in literacy, even among the lower classes. Books withwoodblock illustrations on colored papers were available to the general public."
"A small, independent bookstore is a tough thing to find. There's six that I know of in the metro area," Lowell Johnson said. "I think the future is the Internet. What a lot of bibliophiles like is to be able to come in and browse for books."
"SAN LUIS OBISPO – A powerful documentary photography exhibit that illustrates immigrant youngsters living on the Central Coast will be displayed in the Special Collections department of Cal Poly’s Kennedy Library from May 23 through June 20."
"Organized by the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office, this free exhibit shows how the queen transformed England into one of the most powerful countries in the world."
"A set of Wisden Almanacks that belonged to the legendary cricketer WG Grace has been put up for sale for £150,000, it emerged today.
The Wisdens, cricket’s bible of facts, figures and analysis, span from the first edition in 1864 to 1915, the year of Grace’s death."
"The contemporary Russian reader reads Nabokov into everything. In response to a carved bust or a chocolate statue of Putin, some liberal-minded Russians quoted Nabokov"
"SAN LUIS OBISPO – The country’s largest archives by and about renowned architect Julia Morgan, housed in the Special Collections Department of Cal Poly’s Kennedy Library, will be cataloged for easy access by scholars and students worldwide, thanks to a recent National Endowment for the Humanities grant and matching funds from the university."
"Rare-book dealers are stocking more of these materials, and a recent Christie's auction in New York featured a book describing the design for the first programmable digital computer by Charles Babbage, who is sometimes called the father of computing. The book sold for $78,000. It was the first public auction of manuscripts and documents connected to the history of telecommunications and the Internet."
"While The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been adopted by children all over the world, its roots are here in Chicago. Author L. Frank Baum wrote the classic story, which later inspired Gregory Maguire's prequel Wicked (which in turn inspired "Wicked," the touring Broadway musical opening today in Chicago) in a rambling house not far from the park where he lived with his wife and four sons from 1891 to 1910."
"This trove, the life's work of Janice Bluestein Longone, will open to the public on May 14 as part of the William L. Clements Library here at the University of Michigan. Shy, scholarly and tenacious, Mrs. Longone, now 71, who made her living as a rare book dealer, assembled the collection over more than three decades, aided by her husband, Daniel, a chemistry professor at the university, and donated it to the library."
"When the construction dust settles at Utah State University this fall and some 1.5 million books and documents are moved across campus, high-tech robotic cranes will begin stalking the shelves on behalf of patrons in the new Merrill-Cazier Library."
"'It's like a death in the family,' lamented Fischman, an award-winning literary translator. 'The Greene Ave. shop is not just a bookstore,' Fischman said, 'but a gathering place for book signings and readings.'"
"An ancient document likened to something which could have been featured in best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code was being analysed at a top auction house for its significance today."
"The manuscript, believed to date from the 17th century, contains biographical details of every person in the Bible."
"Finding something to write about was never a problem with Ireland’s abundance of great writers; Irish literature was integral to Dublin’s history and tradition. From the Book of Kells in the ninth century, through the cultural movements of both the 19th and 20th centuries, Ireland produced more than two dozen writers of renown, including four Nobel prizewinners."
"WASHINGTON - A damaged Torah, a centuries-old Bible and other rare documents important to Iraq's few remaining Jews were rescued from a flooded cellar in Baghdad, only to remain in limbo here."
"NEW YORK : Dozens of the late US movie star Marlon Brando's personal effects will be auctioned on June 30 in New York, Christie's said Thursday, announcing it as the most high profile sale since Marilyn Monroe property was auctioned in 1999."
"Some might consider scrounging through musty boxes for tossed out Harlequin Romance or Louis L'Amour novels a little creepy. But talk to any book collector or seller about their book-sale adventures and they'll say otherwise."
"When Libreria Lectorum first opened its doors in 1960 as a specialty bookstore in New York City, who could have imagined it would become the Spanish language publishing and book distribution powerhouse that it is today?"
"Our main role is to preserve valuable public records for present and future generations. Because Murumbi felt that these other items of material culture are best preserved here, we are determined that they should be displayed as best as possible," said George Muoria, Head of Archives Administration."
"A gruff, larger-than-life character, Cosmatos chain-smoked fine cigars and made populist blockbusters, often overflowing with star names, first in Europe and then in America. But he was also an intellectual, who was more than happy to defend the violence in Rambo against its critics, while at the same time promoting the virtues of European arthouse classics.
He collected rare books, but had lost his sight as a result of an operation two years ago..."
"Unlike all bookshops across the city Books World deals exclusively with books on interiors, jewellery, fashion, carpets, watches et cetera. Fiction, the most popular category at most bookshops, is nowhere to be seen."
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"In an attempt to cash in on the demand from collectors, publishers are selling deluxe versions of new novels in mainstream bookshops."
"Some of these signed and numbered hardbacks have trebled in price within months of going on sale. Many are worth more than traditional first editions."
"Bythell, the 34-year-old proprietor of The Bookshop in Wigtown in Galloway, is an affable man, who looks a little like the shambling television chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s long-lost twin. Ordinarily, he is not the type to cause offence. Yet soon he will risk the wrath of his neighbours in this small town on Scotland’s south-west tip, when he holds a public bonfire of old and unread books."
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