"It’s billed as the world’s most expensive, most beautiful new book."

"Costing well over $100,000, a 62-pound handmade tome depicting the life and work of Michelangelo has arrived at the New York Public Library, fresh from publication in Italy."

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"Featuring illuminated copies of the 'Qur'an', ancient Egyptian papyrus texts, beautiful calligraphy and rare artistic gems, the 'Arts of The Book' exhibition spans several continents and a wide range of artists."

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"Costing well over $100,000, a 62-pound handmade tome depicting the life and work of Michelangelo has arrived at the New York Public Library, fresh from publication in Italy."

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"So how valuable is it? "

"Try $25,000 -- enough to buy 1,600 copies of Ken Follett's latest paperback, or to almost pay off your student loan, after graduating with a major in Medieval Studies."

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"Established by the Spaniers in 1998, the Philip Young Special Collections Endowment for the Libraries supports the purchase of rare books, manuscripts and other materials for the University Libraries' Rare Books Room and Special Collections. The Spaniers created the fund in memory of Young, a world-renowned Ernest Hemingway scholar and Penn State faculty member who was Sandra Spanier’s dissertation director and a great influence on her own career."

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As Thanksgiving nears, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim picks her favorite rare books on early America, in "The Wall Street Journal."

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"Mr. Thennarasu said the library would have eight floors, with a plinth area of 3,04,745 sq. ft. and would be of international standards. The ground floor, spanning nearly 35,000 square feet, would house a lobby, reception, a Braille and talking book section, two conference halls, the administrative wing’s office, a cyber café, the deposit counter and the security room."

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"Jay T. Snider's collection of early Americana, much of it relating to Philadelphia, fetched $2.3 million at an auction ending yesterday in New York."

"Though the rare books, manuscripts, maps and prints were expected to garner $3 million, Anais Borja, a representative of Bloomsbury Auctions, said the gallery was pleased with the result."

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"Skinner, Inc., one of the nation's leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it has set a new world record for a rare illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. At the recent Fine Books & Manuscripts auction, which took place on Sunday, November 16th, Beardsley's The Climax (lot 139) fetched $213,300 including buyer's premium, well over its $15/20,000 estimate."

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"Bookseller Ken Sanders isn't sure what to do with 50 antique lint brushes, 24 neon beer signs and 25,000 Utah postcards."

"'Literally, there are tens of thousands of items,' he said of his late father's collectibles. 'There is much more stuff than I can possibly display at my own house, and I'm doing my double best to [display] it.'"

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"U Maung Maung Lwin, the manager of Innwa bookstore, said the book market has not been active this year at all and is way down on what it’s been in years past. "

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"National Library of Pakistan (NLP) is digitising rare books and manuscripts to preserve the national literary heritage for the next generations."

“'About 70 rare books and manuscripts have already been digitised so far,' sources told APP here Tuesday adding that this step would not only help preserve the national heritage but also facilitate researchers and scholars."

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"The Rev. Peter Rood, rector of Holy Nativity Episcopal Church in the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester, said he first started visiting Mount Calvary in the mid-1980s. "It was very spartan," he recalled, with thin partitions between the dozen or so sleeping quarters. Over the years, it was improved, including a dense gardens tended to by the monks."

"'The place was a treasure trove of antiques and rare books,'" Rood said."

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"Rosemary Sullivan, 71, has spent a lifetime collecting books, many of them rare and first editions. For the past four decades, she's also been a notable book seller."

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"Mr. Snider's books, manuscripts and broadsides, as well as maps and prints, are believed to be the largest privately owned collection of its kind. The Constitution Center reception celebrated Mr. Snider's induction into the Chairman's Circle of the Constitution Center, as well as the auction of Mr. Snider's collection at New York's Bloomsbury Auctions this week."

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"For a young man, E.C. Schroeder of Clinton spends most of his life among old things. Not only is he the new president of the Clinton Historical Society (CHS), he works at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University."

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"A rare print of a 396-year-old map of Canada created by French explorer Samuel de Champlain has sold at an auction in Britain for nearly $250,000, triple the expected price."

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"Kurt De Belder, the director of the library, spoke about the University founded in 1575 in Leiden, the Netherlands, which is one of the 20 leading education institutions in Europe, as well as delivered true information about the library. De Belder praised the initiative of Azerbaijan embassy, voiced satisfaction with the cooperation with Azerbaijan. "

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"On the densely packed shelves next to the wooden fireplace and old leather furniture, you'll find the kind of books that might be resting in your great aunt's garage. From the original British printings of Harry Potter to well out-of-print art books, Dragon Books offers a literary glimpse through time."

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"TORONTO — The thousands of books Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut consulted over the decades for his sermons, essays, articles and books, have been donated to York University."

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"A mystery donor has left four 18th Century volumes described by experts as incredibly rare in a charity book bin. "

"The books, in gold-tooled calf binding, were given to Stirling's Oxfam bookshop and form part of Clarendon's 1731 six-part History of the Rebellion."

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"One of New Zealand's oldest schools is selling rare New Zealand books and artwork dating back to the 18th century to help fund repairs for their ageing buildings."

"The collection includes first editions of Captain Cook's voyages and books signed by former student, Noble Prize winning scientist, Ernest Rutherford."

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"As rare books go, auction catalogs are surely among the rarest, officially obsolete as soon as the auction is over. And yet, in my experience, their fascination never expires."

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"Last night, Thursday 6 November 2008, at an event at the New York General Consul, Sir Alan Collin's residence, private collector, John Wolfson, pledged his priceless collection of early play texts, including Shakespeare quarto and folio editions to Shakespeare's Globe, London."

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"Looking at the illustrations and notations, mostly about plants, it’s hard to imagine that this serene and beautiful exhibit shows the beginning of a war of beliefs — evolution versus creationism — that rages to this day. It’s a revolution that began in an English garden with seeds sown in the imagination of a man viewing garden islands off the Pacific coast of South America. Who could have guessed? "

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"The engraving, An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, has since been valued at between $250,000 and $350,000. It will be auctioned at Christie's in New York next month."

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"The highlights of the sale are a collection of books from the library of mountaineer and photographer Nikolas Tombazia, William Simpson and Sir John William Kaya's rare series of illustrations depicting the beautiful scenery of everyday life of 19th century India."

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"The Brigham Young University Hawaii Archives will put a rare copy of the original 1855 Ka Buke a Moramona — the Hawaiian language translation of the Book of Mormon — on permanent display at the Laie Hawaii Temple Visitors Center, starting with an unveiling ceremony on Friday, November 7, at 7 p.m."

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"A RARE book by the Roman philosopher Cicero, which lay undiscovered in the Law Library at the King's Inns in Dublin, was shown to the media yesterday."

"On Old Age - De Senectute, published in 1535, remained hidden for 200 years after it was rebound in the Law Library with another Cicero text, On Duty, and was not subsequently identified on the joint binding or in the hand-written library catalogue."

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"The Daily Pennsylvanian and Penn Libraries' Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image are partnering to archive and digitize every edition of the paper, which has been published since 1885."

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"Louis Braille was one of the movers and shakers of the blind community, a man who was far ahead of his time. He revolutionized the way blind people had access to written information, as well as giving us an alphabet of our own. "

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"Rare books and manuscripts, once restricted to scholars and graduate students in white gloves, are being incorporated into undergraduate courses at institutions like the University of Iowa, Smith College, the University of Washington and Harvard. Last academic year, almost 200 classes and student tours visited the rare-books collection of the University of Pennsylvania. That’s almost three times the number of visitors five years ago, according to Mr. Pollack. "

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