"The Vatican Library in Rome is closing for a three-year renovation. The closure will make Saint Louis University's renowned Vatican Film Library even more important for the world's leading scholars and researchers. "

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"Celebrity book-binder Bill Tito is so confident he is bringing New Zealand's heaviest book to Palmerston North, he will give $100 to anyone who comes along with a heavier one. "

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Go see: "Linnaeus in the Garden": "An exhibition of rare books related to the Swedish botanist who is credited with creating the first system for naming plants. The show coincides with the 300th birthday of Carl Linnaeus."

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"Sabancı Museum: Since 1884 the grounds of today’s Sabancı Museum have been both a private and royal residence. Opened as the Sabancı University Sakip Sabancı Museum in 2002, it now hosts world-class exhibitions in a state-of-the-art environment. "

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"Hundreds of rare manuscripts in Persian and Arabic languages, some dating back to 16th century, housed in Kashmir university have been digitalized and are now available online in that version, the university officials said Thursday. "

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"The two are the legendary antiquarian booksellers Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern. Rostenberg was the first women President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and Stern was responsible for putting on the first Antiquarian Book Fair. "

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"Thanks to a project that began in the 1950s, Saint Louis University, a Jesuit school, has microfilm copies of nearly half of the Vatican library's medieval and Renaissance manuscripts."

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"A manual Royal typewriter that once belonged to Ernest Hemingway, made around 1940 and still in its well-worn leather carrying case, sold for $2,750 at a multi-estate sale held June 24th by Four Seasons Auction Gallery in Atlanta."

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"Now Leona and Mady, based on real-life friends who became rare book dealers, have one written about them, too. Leona Rostenberg (1909-2005) was the first female president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, while Madeleine Stern (born 1912) founded the first Antiquarian Book Fair. "

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"THE FIRST LIBRARY I KNEW was my father’s bookshop in the then cosmopolitan community of Cairo; it was burnt down in l952, in the first significant insurgency of Arab nationalists under the future president Nasser, during the last complacent period of the British Empire. "

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"Inside the bag was a fragile leather-bound book stuffed with hundreds of pages of cramped handwritten notes. To all appearances, the book contained records of the First Congregational Church of Rowley dating to the mid-1600s -- and missing for decades."

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"On the third floor of Meriam Library Thursday, Special Collections' staff member Debbie Besnard brought out from the back room four historical pieces from the rare book collection and two pairs of white cotton gloves so she and E-R staff could handle the artifacts. "

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"Edward Gorey’s Abecedarium is a cult favorite among miniature book collectors, Bromer explains. Many customers ask for his work at Bromer’s Booksellers, the shop on the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston that Bromer owns and runs with her husband. "

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"You might come across a priceless gem if you are patient and browse long enough in Old Delhi's book market, which has been around for nearly forty years, writes Sanjay Podder."

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"The June Price Reedy Library Endowment for the Rare Book Collection and the Woman's Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society purchased a first edition volume of Robert Thornton's famous flower anthology, Temple of Flora for the Lenhardt Library in the Regenstein Center, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe..."

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"Now, Scott Gwara has cleared the way for USC’s Thomas Cooper Library to acquire a 1269 manuscript written by the Order of Cistercians in Italy. The purchase was funded by a $46,229.67 grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation of New York."

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"Joseph Campana's piece, Rare Books, appeared on the Kenyon Review blog last week. The jumping off point for Campana was the New York Times article on the closing of the Heritage Book Shop, one of the premier antiquarian book shops in the world."

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"Beyond those basic steps, the creative designs and techniques for creating a cover design run the gamut from simple lettering to the award-winning design by Eleanore Edwards Ramsey of Sausalito -- whose "Huckleberry Finn" design depicted a map of Missouri and surrounding states in different leathers."

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"Spirit and Life Exhibition will include miniatures from one of the finest illustrated manuscripts ever produced, the Persian epic masterpiece of Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), and an extremely rare copy of the Canon of Medicine of Ibn Sina also known as Avicenna, Persian physician, astronomer, logician, mathematician, philosopher, physicist, scientist, and theologian, whose book use in Europe and the Middle East as the standard medical textbook for over 500 years. "

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"This exhibition on view at The New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx, will present rarely seen Caribbean-related illustrated works and will run through July 29. Bringing to life 500 years of Caribbean history and culture, this show features lavishly printed folio editions, rare books, and original watercolors assembled from the Mertz Library collection."

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"I did get a welcoming, casual vibe from the equally beautiful Boston Public Library, another of Fodor's recommended visits, which boasts some of its own exciting collections (and a cafe and a courtyard). I particularly enjoyed their miniature books exhibit..."

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"On the other hand, a few days later a man who had read my book called from California and said he had bought a book on E-bay by Clarissa M. Badger, “Floral Portraits.” He wondered if the $89 he paid was appropriate. He gasped when I told him at auction it would fetch about $2,400."

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"RUSTON — The public can get a glimpse into the life of a Civil War soldier in Louisiana Tech University's department of special collections, manuscripts and archives."

"The display 'The Robert Patrick Collection: 1861-1865' features the personal diary of Robert Patrick, of Clinton, who served in Louisiana's Fourth Infantry for four years."

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"Durham, NC -- Last month, more than 60 Henkel family members from around the country reunited at Duke’s Perkins Library where the family printing press, acquired by the library in 1931, is on permanent display."

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"For the last few years I have collected rare books, most concerning the history and exploration of the "Northwest Coast," a term used to identify Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska 200 years ago."

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"The 1897 copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula was found during a house clearance in Great Smeaton, near Northallerton."

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"Nothing appeared to be missing from the two-story library, a $200,000 addition to the home near McDaniel Lake where Comstock was found shot to death Tuesday."

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"Once in Southern California, brothers Ben and Lou opened a secondhand store in Compton. They found that books sold for the highest profit, and began to focus on them. Eventually, they moved from used books to rare and collectible books, and established Heritage Book Store, an antiquarian shop on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood with an international reputation."

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"Spencer, 63, has operated his bookstore on Front Street for 31 years, offering both new and used books -- about 75,000 on three floors -- and carving a niche for his business with rare books, prints and original architects' drawings."

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"Davis-Kidd Booksellers and FlatSigned Press, Inc. of Nashville will celebrate Independence Day by jointly sponsoring a public viewing of an original 1776 printing of the United States Declaration of Independence."

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"The Frankfort library and other libraries and museums in small towns across the country are treasure troves of historical documents, ranging from mundane marriage records to rare artifacts and artwork. But preservation can be a low priority for cash-strapped facilities, which often function more like community centers than museums."

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"A week ago Spencer made what could be called a "cultural contribution" to Owego by featuring a talk and book signing at his shop by two historians, Andrew Burstein, who recently published a biography of writer Washington Irving, and Nancy Isenberg, author of a new biography on Aaron Burr. The two scholars share an endowed chair at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma."

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"Three decades after her death in 1976, Dame Agatha Christie remains one of the best-selling fiction writers of all time. It is estimated that, beginning with the publication in 1920 of her first mystery novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, over 2 billion copies of her books, printed in dozens of languages, have been sold around the globe."

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