"The speaker, who enthralled the 20 or so members of the Friends of Sturgis Library, was Renee Roberts, proprietor of Rose’s Books and a collector, dealer and publisher of new editions of old books."
"The speaker, who enthralled the 20 or so members of the Friends of Sturgis Library, was Renee Roberts, proprietor of Rose’s Books and a collector, dealer and publisher of new editions of old books."
"In order to learn about orchids and other flowers, Jack Kramer became a book collector. In the process of collecting books and prints, his love of flowers became supplemented by a love of botanic art, giving him a whole new subject to write about. "
"...The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has installed the Rapid Responder® crisis management system (CMS) to aid in protecting its collections-based research and educational institution.
"Mr Stokes owns an array of rare books, manuscripts and historic relics, in July paying $1.2 million for a Gallipoli Victoria Cross which he then donated to the Australian War Memorial."
"The MU Libraries received a $200,000 grant to provide special care to old, rare and unique books. "
"The William T. Kemper Foundation, a philanthropic organization, awarded the grant, according to a news release from the UM system Libraries. "
"Five hundred years ago an artist's brush finely stroked a vellum page with liquid gold, rendering highlights on the regal clothing of the Virgin Mary, her infant son and an angel. This glorious image and other rare book illustrations will go on view in a special exhibition "The Christmas Story: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Stark Collection" at the Stark Museum of Art Thursday, Nov. 30."
"Renaissance magician Ricky Jay pulls many rabbits out of his various hats. He's an engaging author ("Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women," "Jay's Journal of Anomalies"). He's also an accomplished actor whose impressive screen oeuvre includes some half-dozen films by his longtime friend and associate, David Mamet."
"The largest house on the street contains the Istanbul Library founded by Çelik Gülersoy. A great book collector, Gülersoy realized that books and magazine articles were being written about Istanbul but were available in Turkey on only a very limited basis and not translated into Turkish. "
"And finally, something for everyone can be found at Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books in Long Beach, the largest used bookstore in the state. The store stretches one city block along Long Beach Boulevard and was designated a cultural heritage landmark by the city in 1990."
"BALTIMORE - For the first time, The Walters Art Museum of Baltimore, is exhibiting as a collection its illuminated missals, liturgical manuscripts and early printed missals."
"Norman Levine was a college student attending New York University when he first discovered the business that would keep him happily employed for about the next 60 years. Monday, Nov. 27 marks the last day Editions Bookstore - formerly a mail order catalog before it became an Internet Web site - will be in operation, located on state Route 28 in Boiceville. "
"BALTIMORE — An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece as seen through the eyes of Hyperides, an important Athenian orator and politician from the fourth century B.C. "
"HYDERABAD: The favourite haunt for bibliophiles and students faded into memory on Monday when MCH officials demolished bookstalls at Koti amidst protests from booksellers. "
"The Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary bought a 5,000-plus book collection from William Jewell College this month for $400,000."
"Andy Pratt, chaplain and vice president for religious ministries at William Jewell, said the Charles H. Spurgeon Collection is significant because it belonged to a famous Baptist pastor."
"Rare books, back issues of periodicals and government documents are now housed in the building that Mr. Stalin described as `an object of pride for the state of Tamil Nadu'."
"JOHN ADAMS went on a shopping spree in the summer of 1774. He was in Philadelphia attending the First Continental Congress when he wrote Abigail, 'I have spent an estate on books.' Today that 'estate of books' belongs to the people of Boston and it is on exhibit at the Boston Public Library."
"Rare works by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope have fetched about £100,000 at auction.
The first edition books by 19th and 20th century authors - part of a sale of 3,000 books in Dorset - were snapped up by buyers from around the UK. "
"Many people are not even aware that it exists, yet the Lumpini public library will celebrate its 51st anniversary this year. A recent upgrade to its IT facilities and a new digital literary programme provide even more reasons for seeking out Thailand's first public library, which is located in the heart of the city at Lumpini Park. "
"Retired journalist Roger Mudd has donated his 1,500 volume collection of 20th-century Southern writers to Washington and Lee University, the school said."
"They found cheap premises and decided to have a bookshop on the ground floor, stocking rare books, alternative and radical literature and the gallery in the basement, showing works by the new conceptual artists."
"MYSORE: D P Madhusudhan of the Oriental Research Institute, presented 150 manuscripts collected by Srinivasan, a resident of Kumbakonam. "
"To the reading public, the 6,000 books at Kenya National Archives are a priceless inheritance and a living memorial for the late Murumbi."
"CHEERS to T.R. McIntosh, retired teacher who plans to sell his extensive collection of rare books and ancient coins to finance a $500,000 pledge to pay for a library at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology."
"Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection is among the 25 collections that Bruccoli a USC emeritus professor, has donated to or established, in collaboration with others, at USC’s Thomas Cooper Library. The best-known one is the Matthew J. Bruccoli and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, which includes books, manuscripts and artifacts such as Fitzgerald’s ledger, flask and briefcase."
"The University of Toronto is now the new home for Dun & Bradstreet Canada's historical business archives. D&B Canada recently donated hundreds of volumes of their Mercantile Agency Reference Books profiling Canadian businesses between 1865 and 1984."
"Europe's leading resource for the study of the History of Medicine, The Wellcome Library, has been successful in its bid at Sotheby's to purchase a rare book from the personal collection of the late John Dee, the eminent Elizabethan mathematician and astrologer."
"Officials at Lauinger Library say they are looking into using Google Book Search, a program that uploads rare manuscripts and artwork to the Internet, allowing users to read books online."
"The caricatures that line the wall -- Heaney, Swift, Goldsmith, Wilde, Shaw, Joyce, Yeats, O'Casey -- are of the authors whose books dominate the shelves. But you can also find a younger generation of Irish writers, from Roddy Doyle to Anne Enright to Hugo Hamilton. Cathach has many titles in the Irish language. "
"The fundraising evening, which was hosted by BBC personality and UU alumina Gerry Anderson, is part of a joint project between the University and the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe to rescue books in the historic Diocesan Library. "
"There are over 5,700 books in the collection, some date back to the time of the Siege of Derry and many are in a poor state of repair. "
"Edward Curtis was probably slightly mad when he began photographing the 'vanishing Indians' of North America in 1906." ...
" Today, each of the 20 volumes from the original sets sells for between $7,500 and $23,000, so a complete set is worth between $150,000 and $450,000."
"Pyle in 1903 was commissioned by the Bibliophile Society of Boston to illustrate 'The Bibliomaniac; or, Book-Madness,' by Thomas Frognall Dibden. 'Richard de Bury' was one of five paintings Pyle produced for the book."
"Alibris, the premier online destination for new and second-hand books in the United States, announced today the launch of its U.K. Web site and a drive to expand into international book markets."
"Google will digitize hundreds of thousands of books from the Library, including selected portions of the Library's American history, literature, and humanities works collections, and make them searchable online through Google Book Search."
"November 29 will see the opening of the Antique Book Fair in the Central House of Artist, Moscow."
" It will present monuments of Russian and foreign culture, including historic treatises, book collections of Russian classics, art albums, unique editions, as well as books painted free-hand by Russian futurist artists."
"Williamsburg, Va - The library under construction at William & Mary Law School has been named the Wolf Law Library to honor alumnus and Vice Rector of the College Henry C. Wolf, Law School Dean W. Taylor Reveley III announced recently."
"Worcester native Jeffrey D. Mancevice got interested in antique books when he was still a student at Doherty Memorial High School. He earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and then he studied library science at Columbia University because it had a rare book program."
"Turkey is a multicultural country and has a long history. Books and magazines in Armenian, Greek, Hebrew and French languages were published in this country. There are old books written in five or six languages. On the other hand, in Europe you can find stores selling only poetry books but you don't have this chance in Turkey."
"Armed with a paltry annual grant from the government, the 112-year-old state-aided library is struggling to preserve its staggering collection of 3.5 lakh books and journals, 3,000-plus manuscripts, paintings, coins and sculptures. A bulk of the journals, periodicals and books are rare, dating back to the first publications."
"Cunningham moved to Dublin 27 years ago, and opened the first Dublin incarnation of Cathach in Market Arcade. But 18 years ago Cunningham moved his shop a few blocks to its current location -- just down the street from Davy Byrne's pub, where Leopold Bloom had a glass of burgundy and a gorgonzola sandwich in 'Ulysses.'"
"Richard Virr loves his work. And why shouldn't he? As the Chief Curator of the Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Virr spends most of his days exploring the climate-controlled enclave of antiquity, a potential journey of discovery to look forward to every time he walks through its doors."
"The library also boasts a remarkable rare-book trove, kept in a climate-controlled room that houses the Wainwright Collection, primarily the work of early French jurists on pre-Napoleonic Civil Law, and the Canadiana collection of early Canadian, British and American titles. "
"The family of F.M. Denton, the professor who established the Electrical Engineering Department at UNM in 1927, has donated a first edition copy of “Relativity and Common Sense,” a book written by Denton just before he came to UNM. The book is especially valuable because it was signed by Albert Einstein."
"In the course of the last month the library was enriched by the exclusive private book collection of Maroukhian, that includes many valuable books of social, political, philosophical, critical, legal, national and cultural importance, as well as over 3000 books in Armenian and English."
"An anonymous gift from a descendant of American statesman Patrick Henry will enable the University Library to expand its activities related to early U.S. history. "
"The donation has endowed the Barksdale-Dabney-Henry Memorial Fund for Teaching and Research on Patrick Henry and Early Americana. The endowment is a memorial to descendants of Henry among the Barksdale-Dabney-Penick families."
"But Albert (Gene S. Albert, Jr), who's been collecting for 25 years, has other rarities for sale at www.christianheritagemuseum.com. They include a single page of a 1454 Gutenberg Bible priced at $20,000; a 1685 second edition of John Eliot's Algonquin Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in America, for $175,000; and two handwritten sermon notes by 19th-century English evangelist Charles H. Spurgeon, marked down from $595 to $275 each."
"Caught in the crossfire of two premiere institutions, rare and 'antique' books and journals housed in Calcutta Medical College’s central library are in a state of permanent ruin. The National Library has refused to take the books, which are housed in the medical college’s central library at present."
"The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library has received a grant of $127,450 from the US National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and improve access to the archives of Hassan Fathy and Ramses Wissa Wassef, two of Egypt’s most prominent twentieth-century architects, renowned for their use of traditional elements, such as domes and vaults, wooden mashrabeyya screens, and mud brick construction, in their buildings."
" The family of renowned cartoonist and illustrator Whitney Darrow, Jr. '31 recently donated more than 1,000 of his original cartoons to the University Library, adding breadth and depth to a collection already noted for its holdings in comic and satiric art."
"The gift to the graphic arts collection in Firestone's rare books department, includes 325 drawings originally published in The New Yorker and 746 illustrations from Darrow's 18 books."
"The online library of Al Azhar, one of the Islamic world's oldest and most prominent learning centers, has received tremendous international interest within its first month of launching."
"One of the most comprehensive collections of Edgar Allen Poe's works will be on display at Cornell University until Feb. 24, 2007."
"Cornell has been hosting 'Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane,' since Sept. 29 in the Hirshland Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library."
"Cincinnati was once a hotbed of boxing. In 1885, the first heavyweight championship in which the fighters wore gloves took place here."
"Kevin's a sports historian and head of the University of Cincinnati archives and rare books department. He has written a number of Arcadia books."
"Judith Kearney, a librarian at the Mission Houses Museum and the Association of Hawai'i Archivists' newsletter editor, said that the archivists are concerned about the building, as well as the collections inside."
"Caleb, who is named literary executor of DeHaven's rare book collection, is shocked to discover that DeHaven owned a first-edition "Bay Psalm Book." Only 11 copies of the priceless book are known to exist, and all are in institutions such as Harvard, Yale and the Library of Congress."
"A book archived for decades in the cluttered basement of the Metuchen Library has been identified as one of the most important science reference volumes of William Shakespeare's time -- a book the Bard of Avon himself may have consulted for his plays."
"'It's an astonishing discovery,' said Karen Reeds, a science and medical historian."
"The solution of tasks set for the Academy is substantially aided by the establishment of close relations with different scientific-research centres of the world. Thus, scientific relations have been established with Sorbonne University (France) and Kyonhi University (South Korea) in the fields of history, archaeology, ethnography, and bio-technology. Cooperation is developed with the French National Library in the studies of ancient and rare manuscripts."
"SAMUEL BECKETT An exhibit honoring the centennial of the birth of acclaimed Irish playwright Samuel Beckett is at Boston College’s John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections."
"On Tuesday, Nov. 7, award-winning mystery writer Laura Lippman will be at Bryn Mawr to talk about her fiction, her reporter-turned-detective Tess Monaghan, and her own work as a reporter in Baltimore before she began writing novels. Lippman's talk, to take place in Carpenter 21 at 4:30 p.m., is associated with the exhibition Pointing Fingers: Women, Sin, Crime, and Guilt, which is currently on view in the Rare Book Room in Canaday Library."
"Sussex-based Rediscovery Books (http://www.rediscoverybooks.com) is publishing high quality reproductions of rare books from the library of the Royal Geographical Society. The joint project will breathe new life into spectacular accounts of the expeditions and campaigns that forged the British Empire. "
"CBS producers had wanted a first-edition copy of the book for Lahr to read during the presentation. Rare-book dealers in New York City referred the network to Justin, who'd been collecting books since age 8. And he did indeed have an "Oz" first edition."
"'I remember meeting Mr. Lahr,'" said Schiller, of New York City, now a worldwide expert and dealer in rare literature for children. 'They had hoped to get Judy Garland also, but she was performing and sent her daughter instead.'"
"On Friday, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission will hand over papers of the Texas Legation, more than 250 documents that were official correspondence of the Republic of Texas and housed in its legation office in Washington, D.C."
"Mention pop-up books, and most people will immediately recall the delight they experienced as children when they first opened the pages of a book and were magically confronted with not just words and pictures but also objects in motion. Today, adults and children alike enjoy the artistry and fun in pop-up books. The books are also highly sought after by collectors of mechanical books, as pop-up books are also called."
"LEXINGTON, Ky. − Who sets type by hand in the digital era? The King Library Press, founded at the University of Kentucky Libraries in 1956, maintains the ancient craft of printing with moveable type. UK Libraries will celebrate the press's contributions to the campus and state, and its 50th anniversary at festivities scheduled for Nov. 17 - 18 on the university campus."
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