News about Book Exhibits

May 02, 2008

Exhibit of Persian Manuscripts in New Delhi

"An exhibition of Persian Manuscripts and rare books inaugurated Thursday in New Delhi at Dr. Zakir Husain Library of Jamia Millia Islamia university as part of Iranian Cultural Week in India organised by the university. "

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April 25, 2008

Harvard Exhibit Features Islamic Sciences

"The exhibit reaches back to an era when scholars from the Middle East were translating the works of ancient Greek scientists, making science of their own, and preserving a legacy of knowledge that would one day help power the Renaissance in Europe."

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April 17, 2008

Artists' Books on Exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum

"This bold display of work ranges from Matisse to Rauschenberg to Hirst. It includes great surprises, such as the saturated totemic prints of abstract Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida. There isn’t an overriding theme but the curators have selected works which demonstrate great craftsmanship, which is appropriately so very V&A. "

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April 09, 2008

Napoleon Exhibition in Missouri

"An exhibit of artifacts and documents related to the life of Napoleon I of France, from the collection of Don and Rubye Kraft, will open at 3:30 p.m. today in Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University."

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March 24, 2008

New World Exploration in America on Exhibit at Yale

"In addition to the paintings on the walls, gems from Yale's extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, atlases, and globes convey the history and context of the period. And interesting surprises abound: The map of North America from the 1630s shows "a branch of the south sea not yet discovered" — just west of the Appalachians."

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March 12, 2008

Satan and Milton on Exhibit at New York Public Library

"Blessed with the avid Miltoniana collecting by two of its founders, the library has mounted a small but rich display of rare books, documents and illustrations related to the man who laid down 10,550 lines of 'Paradise Lost''"

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February 08, 2008

Jesuit Collection on Exhibit in Spokane, Washington

"Deep within the Foley Center library, between the endless rows of bookshelves and the scholarly students, reside precious and ancient treasures of the past. These "Treasures of the Vault" can only be found on the third floor of the Foley Center, nestled in a public, yet unfamiliar place to many students: the Cowles Rare Books room."

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February 07, 2008

Frederick Douglass Exhibit Goes to Douglas County, Georgia

"ATLANTA – Former NBA star Mike 'Stinger' Glenn, a curator of rare books and original documents, will showcase a segment of the Mike Glenn Collection, 'The Liberated Life and Turbulent Times of Frederick Douglass' at the Douglas County Public Library, February 9 – 29, 2008. "

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February 01, 2008

The Gutenberg Bible on Luxist.com

"In today's market single pages alone go for $25,000 each, and several years ago just 1 volume (it's a 2 volume set) sold for $5.5 million."

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January 30, 2008

Grolier Club Upcoming Exhibition: The Late Victorians

"The Grolier Club will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, curated by Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators."

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January 28, 2008

Minerals and Mineralogy Books on Exhibit in Arizona

"The premier elements of a $7 million collection of minerals and rare books will go on display at the University of Arizona Mineral Museum Feb. 9. "

"The collection, which includes 871 mineral specimens covering 64 species and more than 300 rare books on mineralogy, was donated to UA by the estate of Hubert Charles de Monmonier. "

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December 26, 2007

"Exploring the Early Americas" at the Library of Congress

"The Waldseemueller map, purchased by the library for $10 million in 2003, is believed to be the only one in existence. It had languished for four centuries in a German castle but now is on view in a hermetically sealed custom-made case that took nearly a year to design. And for the first time, it is paired with Waldseemueller's 1516 Carta Marina, or Navigators' Chart, thought by some to be the first printed nautical map of the entire world. "

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December 13, 2007

Louisville Kentucky Maps on Exhibit

"A new online collection at the University of Louisville Libraries’ makes it easy for Louisvillians to see what their neighborhoods looked like 100 years ago and compare them to present day."

"Kentucky Maps, which has atlases from 1876, 1884 and 1913, is one of two collections recently added to University Libraries’ digital collections."

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November 02, 2007

Italian Festivals on Exhibit at Yale Library

"This ravishing exhibit, which includes the first book printed in color (the 1579 marriage of the second duke of Tuscany to his Venetian mistress) is as much an engrossing history lesson as it is an examination of the human impulse to be remembered."

"It's tempting to think of these 60 exhibited volumes from across Italy as Renaissance scrapbooks, but they were much more. They were political documents, lavish self-promotional billboards aimed at asserting the wealth and stature of the host."

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October 15, 2007

Graphic Modernism on Exhibit at the New York Public Library

"The curators, S. A. Mansbach and Wojciech Jan Siemaszkiewicz, have pulled rare books, journals and ephemera from the library’s Slavic and Baltic division. Tattered, date-stamped and marked with the names of immigrant readers, these materials show new and reconstituted countries embracing the aesthetics of Modern art and design (though not always the radical politics.)"

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September 21, 2007

World's Biggest Medieval Manuscript on Exhibit in Prague

"PRAGUE (AFP) — Czechs got the chance to examine the world's biggest medieval manuscript, the "Codex Gigas" or "Devil's Bible," for the first time in almost 359 years on Thursday when the precious work went on show as part of a four-month-long exhibition."

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September 19, 2007

Chicago's Adler Planetarium Celebrates Cartography

"The unusual collaboration of so many cultural organizations around a single topic was the brainchild of the Field Museum, the Newberry Library and private collectors who for years had dreamed of launching an exhibition of history's "100 most important maps," said Chicago industrialist Barry MacLean, a map collector."

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Pirates on Exhibit at Yale

"This month, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library features a captivating display on piracy, the "villains of all nations," whose greatest sins may have been the transgression of behavioral norms."

"The best part of being a pirate, after all, is the freedom it engenders."

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August 30, 2007

Spanish Civil War Exhibit at the International Center of Photography

"Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture during the Spanish Civil War, on view at the International Center of Photography (ICP), from September 26, 2007 through January 6, 2008, places a selection of these publications in relation to the posters and other forms of ephemera in which photography was used to record the war’s main events and to create dynamic propaganda."

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Rand McNally Cartography on Exhibit in Chicago

"Festival of Maps Chicago, which starts November 2, is organized by a board of high-powered map connoisseurs (former Rand McNally chairman Andrew McNally IV and Field prez John McCarter are two of 10 members). Because Chicago is the first city to host a major maps exhibition in 50 years, the offerings reach far and wide: More than 25 participating museums and institutions will host cartography-related exhibitions, lectures and events."

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August 03, 2007

Caribbean History on Exhibit in New York Botanical Garden's Library

"'Paradise in Print' showcases 500 years of Caribbean history and culture through beautifully printed folio editions, rare books, and original watercolors from the library's own archival treasury. The sheer wealth of information conveyed, together with the splendor of the roughly 65 individual plates, maps, and frontispieces, testifies to the crucial function of art in the history of medicine, agriculture, and exploration."

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July 12, 2007

Islamic Masterpieces on Exhibit in London

"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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The Caribbean on Exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden

"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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June 29, 2007

Edward Curtis Indian Images Travel to China

"Another insight, into a different culture, one still struggling to find its roots in a new world. "Sacred Legacy," an irreplaceable record of North American native culture has come to China. "Sacred Legacy" consists of work first published a century ago by renowned American photographer and ethnographer Edward Sherriff Curtis."

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June 27, 2007

Indian Epic on Exhibit in Philadelphia

"Among the treasures of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia's Rare Book Department are twenty-five elaborately illustrated folios from a centuries-old Mughal manuscript known as the Razmnama ( literally, 'Book of War' ). The manuscript dates to around 1598?99, and was produced under the Muslim Mughal Dynasty, which founded a kingdom in India in or during the early 16th century. "

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June 19, 2007

The History of Science on Exhibit in Montana

"The display, titled "From Bacon to Bits: 400 Years of Science," includes a first edition book by Francis Bacon, second edition books by Charles Darwin and John Locke, and a book published in 1726 by Isaac Newton. Also displayed are the issue of "Nature" that announced the molecular structure of DNA and a Commodore 64 Computer. The Guinness Book of World Records called the computer the best-selling single personal computer model of all time, with 17 to 22 million sold world-wide."

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June 08, 2007

Rare Chinese Books on Exhibit in Tapei City

"The exhibits are categorized chronologically into different research spaces: black pottery pieces in Lung-shan Culture (2600-2000 B.C.); oracle inscriptions on bones and shells from the capital of the Shang dynasty at the Ruins of Yin (late 14th century-mid 11th century B.C.); a bronze kettle and pots of the Chou dynasty (1122-221 B.C.); wooden military documents of the Han dynasty from current Gansu frontier fortresses; journal, woodblock prints on rare books from the Sung dynasty (960-1279); and imperial tribute documents dating from the Ming (1368-1644) and Ching (1644-1911) dynasties. "

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June 01, 2007

World's Largest Collection of Chinese Art is Being Digitized

"Museum curators and IT managers in Taiwan are digitising the world's largest collection of ancient Chinese art and artifacts."

"The goal is to make the massive collection available online. Researchers will be able to find rare documents in an easy-to-use database, while teachers will be able to download information and images they can use in course work."

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May 31, 2007

James Thurber's "Sex, War & Dogs" on Exhibit in Ohio

"Unpublished and Uncensored: Sex, War & Dogs is a collection culled from the 62 Thurber drawings donated in 2005 to The Ohio State University's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library by the estate of Nora Sayre. The drawings have been organized into seven series for the exhibit. "

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May 30, 2007

Aububon Exhibit in Niceville, Florida

"The Audubon exhibit features more than 60 of the original large hand-colored engravings from "The Birds of America", selected from the collection and archives of the John James Audubon Museum at Henderson, Ky."

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May 23, 2007

My New Website: "The Black Art" - A History of Letterpress Printing in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

…Cloistered, celibate printers at the Ephrata Cloister in the 1740s.
…Hot-headed, colonial printers.
…Printers’ apprentices become media moguls.
…The most successful American woman printer of the 1800s.

…and lots of Amish and Mennonite letterpress history:
(To help reclaim Germanic, Fraktur fonts for my Amish grandparents.)

The site is Here.


Herbals on Exhibit at Carnegie Mellon University

"An introduction to herbals assembled by librarian Charlotte Tancin places the exhibition in historic context and includes one of the largest such books printed in English (John Parkinson, 1640) and a circa 1759 work by Timothy Sheldrake that was one of the last generalist volumes made."

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May 14, 2007

State Bank of India Archives on Exhibit

"The archives also has the box in which Gandhiji’s ashes were kept for 46 years, from November 1950 to January 1997. The archives also display the notes issued by the bank from 1806 to 1862 after which the government came up with a standard currency. "

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May 10, 2007

Miniature Books Exhibit at Boston Public Library

"Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Boston Public Library's main branch in Copley Square to see their miniature books exhibit entitled 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures. While I have always considered handmade books pieces of art, I have to say that the miniature versions are awe-inspiring."

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May 03, 2007

Boston Public Library Exhibits Miniature Books

"The marvel is not the content of the book, or the idea of publishing it, but that it is only 18 by 13 millimeters -- about 3/4 inches by 1/2 inch. In its day, it was the smallest book ever printed with movable type, using 2-point type called "Fly's eye." As Galileo suffered for his science, so legend says the 1896 typesetter went blind from making his masterpiece."

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April 27, 2007

Iranian Media Features an Exhibit at British Library

"An exhibition featuring ancient scripts belonging to Islam, Judaism and Christianity opens at the British Library in London on Friday. "

"A valuable collection of the original religious texts, sources and documents relating to the special rituals and ceremonies of these three major world religions will be put on display for the public to visit. "

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April 16, 2007

Botanical Books on Exhibit at Yale Library

"At the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, people can see the reach of trees in print -- botanical prints, book illustrations, photographs, single-sheet broadsides -- in a wonderful exhibit titled "Trees in Fact and Fable," which will be on display through May 25."

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April 12, 2007

American Hymnology on Exhibit at Yale

"The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., will have a related exhibition, which will include the 1640 Massachusetts Bay Colony Psalm Book, the first book ever published in America, as well as other historical hymnals–two with words to the line-singing service in the Creek language. At 3 p.m., Friday, the three congregations will sing at the Beinecke from texts on display there. "

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April 04, 2007

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sacred Texts on Exhibit at British Library

"The British Library is proud to announce that HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, are the royal patrons of its forthcoming exhibition, Sacred: Discover what we share, which presents some of the world’s earliest-surviving, most important and beautiful religious texts from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths."

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March 30, 2007

Bookbinding Exhibition at Bryn Mawr Library

"On Friday, March 30, Canaday Library's Special Collections staff will host a reception to mark the opening of a new exhibition of artists' books, tilted "reBound: Contemporary Artists' Responses to 18th and 19th Century Ticketed American Bindings." The reception, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the lobby of Canaday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibition will be on display through May 11, during regular library hours. "

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March 22, 2007

Archaeology Builds Egyptology Complex in Brazil

"Among the objects to be exhibited at the institute are vases from almost five thousand years ago, sets of artefacts from Syrian prehistory, Byzantine icons, Greek and Roman vases, rare books from the 18th and 19th centuries, stamps from Mesopotamia and fossils of the whole world. "

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March 21, 2007

Exhibition Traces History of Wisconsin & Great Lakes Maps

"Original maps of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region from 17th-century drawings concocted from travelers' accounts to 21st-century images captured by satellites are on display through June 29 in the Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison."

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University of Delaware Library Exhibition Catalog Wins Award

"The University of Delaware Library has been named a co-recipient of the 2007 Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award for the exhibition catalog, 'Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Ezra Pound on Twentieth-Century Poetry.'"

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Boris Godunov Exhibition at Princeton Library

"The exhibition will open in the Milberg Gallery of Firestone Library on campus in advance of the production of Alexander Pushkin's play about the Russian tsar Godunov, which will premiere April 12 at the Berlind Theatre."

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March 19, 2007

Leipzig Book Fair Featured in Iranian Media

"The Leipzig Book Fair has emerged as Germany's second largest exhibition after the internationally renowned Frankfurt Book Fair as more than 2,200 exhibitors from 36 countries will showcase their latest works in the east German city of Leipzig from March 22-25."

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Indian Manuscripts Exhibited in Judicial Museum

"The Judicial Museum is the brain child of the present Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Justice Bashir Ahmed Khan. It was on his initiative that Srinagar Judicial Museum came up in July and was inaugurated by the then Chief Justice of India Justic Y K Sabharwal. "

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Darwin on Exhibit in New South Wales

"A rare book by the naturalist Charles Darwin is going on display today at the State Library of New South Wales."

"The first edition of On the Origin of Species, once owned by Darwin's great-grandson, was acquired by the library at auction in London for $191,000."

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March 12, 2007

Anatomical Illustration Exhibition at University of Iowa Library

"The University of Iowa Libraries and the UI History of Medicine Society will sponsor an open house of one of the finest collections of notable anatomical illustrations in the United States from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in the John Martin Rare Book Room of the UI Hardin Library for the Health Sciences."

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March 06, 2007

Age of Discovery at the Thomas Fisher Library

"The explorers and sailors of the 15th century were well aware that the Earth was round, but only on September 6, 1522, a ship completed the circumnavigation of the globe. It was the Victoria, one of the ships that had sailed under Ferdinand Magellano..."

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January 31, 2007

Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition in Kansas City

"A trio of items from the Department of Special Collections in KU's Kenneth Spencer Research Library will be featured alongside 10 scrolls, some of which have never been seen before in the United States."

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January 26, 2007

Morse Museum of American Art to Exhibit their Rare Books

"The Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., in Winter Park, will open the first comprehensive exhibition of its seldom-seen collection of rare books and works on paper, beginning Tuesday. Pieces presented in the show include many by notable artists, such as Hopper, Whistler, Cassatt, Cezanne, Renoir, Gauguin, etc"

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American Bookbindings on Exhibit in Bryn Mawr Library

"A new exhibition titled Bound and Determined: Identifying American Bookbindings, will open Tuesday, Jan. 30, in the Rare Book Room in Canaday Library. Preceding the opening will be a lecture by Daniel Traister, curator of research services at the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania, and a prolific writer and speaker about the history of books and English and American literature. His talk, You Can't Tell a Book by Its Cover; or Bindings? – Why Bindings?, will be at 4:30 p.m. in Carpenter Library 21."

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January 12, 2007

Christopher Stern: Printer / Letterpress Artist

"In the last five years, Stern had just begun exploring other forms of letterpress art, stretching his talent and testing his artistic grit. 'His latest work shows him beginning to explore the brilliance of his talent," says Sandra Kroupa, a friend of Stern's and Book Arts and Rare Book curator at the University of Washington. "In that type of printing, he was at the top of the game.'"

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January 05, 2007

Florida Library Looks at Roots of Author Alex Haley

"''The Voyage of Alex Haley: Notebooks and Memoirs of an African-American Writer'' marks the 30th anniversary of the blockbuster miniseries about Haley's enslaved ancestors."

"The January 1977 debut of Roots drew 130 million Americans -- nearly half the nation's population at the time and about 85 percent of the television viewing audience."

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January 04, 2007

Bookbinding Craft "Binds Couple Together"

"That's book binding, the avocation of husband-and-wife team Monique Lallier and Don Etherington. They live in Summerfield, and they're known worldwide for their handiwork."

"The books they help create are downright beautiful. Matter of fact, you can see their work on exhibit through Sunday at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem."

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January 01, 2007

Joan of Arc on Exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery

"The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents Joan of Arc, an exhibition that celebrates the cultural legacy of the French medieval heroine Joan of Arc (c. 1412-1431). Her extraordinary life has inspired generations of writers and artists, and her image has been used for centuries to promote a variety of political, cultural and religious views."

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December 26, 2006

"UB Art Gallery to Host Exhibition of Works by Joe Brainard"

"Brainard's writings fall into several categories: memoir, diaries, Pop Art, short essays and verbal-visual collaborations. Drawing from the University at Buffalo Poetry and Rare Book Collection's vast assortment of journals, magazines, broadsides and first-edition books, this exhibition will capture the freewheeling and generative excitement of New York City in the 1960s and 70s. "

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December 22, 2006

Buy Rare Books in Detroit

"Ben Ness, manager of John K. King Used & Rare Books in Ferndale, said his store is receiving an upswing in sales."

"Some of the business' recent sales were a first edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway and a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses that was illustrated and autographed by the artist Henri Matisse. Customers have also bought rare copies of children's books like The Wizard of Oz and The Little Prince."

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December 13, 2006

"Crooks, Rogues, and Maids Less Than Virtuous," at Boston Public Library

"A new exhibit of rare books at the Boston Public Library (BPL) highlights one of the earliest rises in pop culture in London with pamphlets, broadsides, and rare books telling stories of criminals, ghost, shipwrecks, and pirates."

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November 29, 2006

Christmas Manuscripts on Exhibit in Texas

"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."

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November 27, 2006

Missals and Manuscripts on Exhibit in Baltimore

"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."

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November 14, 2006

Antique Book Exhibition in Moscow

"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."

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October 23, 2006

Anna Krain Restores Audubon Prints in Baltimore

" Under Krain's gentle massage, they pull the top layer of dirt from this historic artwork in the Maryland State Law Library's collection of original Birds of America prints by wildlife illustrator John James Audubon."

"Over the past two years, the prints have been leaving Annapolis for the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, a nonprofit workshop housed in a former ice cream factory. Here, they undergo a treatment that blends art, science and TLC."

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October 11, 2006

Saint Catherine Coptic Artifacts to be Displayed in US

"Dr Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, said that artifacts include a mosaic of Virgin Marry while carrying baby Jesus Christ, a silver candlestick, a bronze cross in addition to rare manuscripts."

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October 10, 2006

University of Leeds' Literary Treasures on Exhibit

"Items from the Brotherton Collection, considered one of the finest collections of rare books and documents in the country, are to be opened up to public view in Leeds."

"Lord Brotherton of Wakefield amassed the collection before donating it and the magnificent building that houses it to the University of Leeds."

"Now the university is to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth by putting some of the finest items on show and inviting some of Lord Brotherton's relatives to a reception to celebrate his legacy."

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October 02, 2006

Yale's Beinecke Library Contributes to "Art and Music in Britain" Exhibit

"]I don't think it's been done,' Barringer says of the show, which combines works by such artists as J.M.W. Turner, James McNeill Whistler and William Hogarth, along with commercial art, lyric sheets, recorded music ranging from Handel to Gilbert and Sullivan, and period instruments - two pianos, a harp, a hurdy-gurdy and a serpent (a snake-shaped leather-covered wind instrument)."

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September 27, 2006

Rare Manuscripts on Exhibit in Tehran

"Some 10 rare, handwritten copies of the holy Qur'an have been put on display in this auspicious month of Ramadan and a press conference held Monday by the custodian of documents of Iran's National Library, Ali Akbar Ashari, who elucidated on these copies. "

"The manuscript section of the National Library houses more than 20,000 handwritten and rare books. It is one of the world's highly acclaimed libraries and research centers in the field, reported Mehr news agency."

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September 22, 2006

Rare Manuscripts on Exhibit in New Delhi

"A copy of a seventh century Quran and Persian translations of the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana done during the Mughal period are among the around 500 rare manuscripts that will be displayed at the National Museum here after a gap of five years. "

"The manuscripts would be put up at a permanent gallery that will be created especially for such rare documents in two months. "

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John Adams on Exhibit at Boston Public Library

"In the pantheon of Founding Fathers, John Adams is usually considered an also-ran. There is no memorial to him in Washington, no portrait of him on US currency, no singular achievement that is drilled into the heads of schoolchildren from Maine to California."

"But opening today at the Boston Public Library is the first public exhibition of the second president's vast personal library, a priceless collection of 3,802 works whose breadth helps show why this Braintree farmer is gaining recognition as one of the true American giants."

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September 21, 2006

Colgate University to Exhibit its Shakespeare First Folio and Third Folio

"Currently in storage, Colgate's First Folio and 1663 Third Folio will go on display to the public in a rare show in fall 2007, when the Case Library, which closed in 2006 to undergo a $52.5 million expansion, reopens. "


"Colgate's First Folio has not been on public display since Carl Peterson became Colgate's Head of Special Collections in 1990. He told the Dispatch last week he couldn't even recall a time before that when the Folio had been on display at the university. "

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September 19, 2006

Renaissance Works on Exhibit at University of Massachusetts Amherst

"AMHERST, MA.- The UMass Amherst Libraries present “Renaissance at UMass Amherst” an exhibit of rare books, manuscript leaves, and illustrations from the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies on the Lower Level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library through October 14. Along with other, more contemporary items, the exhibit will display the breadth of material represented in the Center’s extensive library. "

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September 18, 2006

Hiroshige on Exhibit in Japan

"A travel sketchbook of one of the greatest Japanese ukiyo-e print artists of the 19th century turns up at a Sotheby's auction after being missing for 110 years. An ukiyo-e museum curator flies to the United States to visit the new owner and verify the authenticity of the sketchbook. At the same time he convinces the owner to lend this rare book for an exhibition in Japan. "

"Sound like a great scenario for an exhibition? It is indeed, although the resulting exhibition--Hiroshige--Tokaido and Kisokaido: Ukiyo-e Master's Views of Scenic Beauty on Two Major Roads--now running until Oct. 9 at the Chiba City Museum of Art may not be quite the exhibition you expect. "

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September 11, 2006

1st International Festival of Russian Book to Be Held in Baku

"Within the festival round table discussions, book fairs, presentation of new issues, meetings between writers and literary men, as well as the evening of Russian Poetry, the concert of art masters, and meetings with students and teachers of the Baku Slavic University are to be held within the festival. About 600 rare book-copies are expected to be given as a present to Azerbaijan."

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September 07, 2006

Cape Cod Museum of Art Hosts an Ernst Haeckel Exhibit

"The Cape Cod Museum of Art will host "Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature," prints from a rare book collection of MBLWHOI Library, from Sept. 16 to Nov. 16."

"Haeckel (1834-1919) was the German scientist who first coined the terms "Darwinism" and "ecology." After reading Darwin's "Origin of Species," Haeckel became one of the more prolific and vociferous supporters of evolution, but was less supportive of natural selection as the mechanism by which evolution occurred. He was first to postulate a "missing link" between ape and man and was proven correct when Java man was found in 1891."

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September 05, 2006

Britain's Shakespeare Center Opens Free to the Public

"PRICELESS books and documents about William Shakespeare and Stratford's rich history will be on display when the Shakespeare Centre opens free to the public."

"The centre, in Henley Street, is one of thousands of historic buildings across England throwing its doors open as part of Heritage Open Days 2006."

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August 23, 2006

7th Century Quran and Hindu Epics on Exhibit in New Delhi

"New Delhi: A copy of a seventh century Quran and Persian translations of the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana done during the Mughal period are among the around 500 rare manuscripts that will be displayed at the National Museum here after a gap of five years. "

"The manuscripts would be put up at a permanent gallery that will be created especially for such rare documents in two months. "

"'The museum has around 15,000 manuscripts in its collection, out of which around 500 will be put up for display in the manuscript gallery,'" National Museum Director General A K V S Reddy told news agencies here. "

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August 04, 2006

Rare Books at the Virginia Historical Society

"The Virginia Historical Society was established in 1831. The first president of the VHS was Chief Justice John Marshall. In the beginning, the society's aim was to collect rare books and acquire rare Virginia memorabilia. The current building was built by the Confederate Memorial Association. In 1946, with the aid of historian Douglas Southall Freeman, the Confederate Memorial Institute and the Virginia Historical Society merged. Last month, the VHS celebrated its 175th anniversary."

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August 01, 2006

Rarities on Exhibit at Rajabai Tower in Mumbai

"IT’s more than just a space to pore over textbooks or hunt down dusty reference volumes for a college research project. The University of Mumbai ’s Rajabai Tower Library is more a book museum, boasting some rare and valuable tomes. The exhibition of some of these interesting volumes at the Rajabai Tower, to celebrate the University’s 150th year, is the perfect way to marvel at some of the treasures that the library preserves."

"Most of the special collections in the library today were received from private donors. Among these are a stack of letters and newspaper articles by Dr B R Ambedkar, the East India Company’s books received in 1864 by the British Government, ex-vice chancellor Dr John Wilson’s collection of books on Oriental Studies and Dr Aroon Tikekar’s 2,100 antiquarian books, which he donated to the library last year. "

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July 19, 2006

Book Exhibit at University of Manitoba, Canada

"Celebrating 150 years, the University of Mumbai has organised an exhibition of ‘Rare Books And Artifacts.’ All the rare and ancient collections of books and photographs are placed at the Rajabhai Tower Library. This collection will be made available for public viewing from today to July 25 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The exhibition will exhibit ‘Peregrinatio Hierosolymitana Et Montis Sinai’ which is the oldest book in the University Library. It was published in the year 1490 and was written by Bernhard Von Breydenbach. Providing a description of a pilgrimage from Germany to Jerusalem this book is remarkable. Peregrinatio Hierosolymitana Et Montis Sinai is regarded as the first illustrated travel book. It contains the earliest known instance of the painter, Erhard Reuwich of Utrecht."

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July 12, 2006

Quran Museum Being Created in Pakistan

The Pakistan Muslim League "said that a Quran Museum was also being set up in Quran Complex to preserve old and rare manuscripts of the Quran. He said that a Quran library would also be established to preserve translations and interpretations of the Quran."

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June 26, 2006

The William A. Quayle Rare Bible Collection

“Most rare books libraries own some Bibles, but as far as I know, there are few Bible collections in America as large, carefully compiled and active as that at Baker University,” says Alexandra Mason, a retired librarian at Kansas University.

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Madelyn Garrett Designs at Guild Bookmakers Exhibit

"Madelyn Garrett's design and binding piece for the cover of "The Art of the Book, a Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography," has been selected to be in the Guild Bookmakers 100th Anniversary Exhibition that will open in New York in October. Garrett, of the rare books department at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, spent more than six months in the cover's creation (two hours per square inch), which is patterned after a historical panel binding from the 16th and 17th centuries." Read this article.

June 19, 2006

St. Louis Museum Opens New Study Area for Paper Collection

"The St. Louis Art Museum owns about 13,000 works on paper: 8,500 prints, 3,000 photographs and 1,500 drawings, watercolors and collages. Together, they make up nearly half of the museum's collection by number."

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June 16, 2006

Caribbean Culture on Exhibit in South Florida Library

"The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center will kick off "Treasures of the Caribbean" with a reception 7 to 9 p.m. at the library, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd. The community is encouraged to dress in Caribbean attire. Island food and music will be provided. "

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June 14, 2006

Bibles on Exhibit in Russian Parliament

"The Bible came to the heart of Russia’s political life when an exhibition held in the State Duma in Moscow displayed ancient and rare manuscripts to politicians for the first time in the modern history of the Russian Federation."

"The exhibition, ‘The Bible in Russia’, was held to mark a number of significant dates in the history of the Bible in Russia - the 950th anniversary of Ostromirov's Gospel, the oldest preserved manuscript in Russian, the 130th anniversary of the Synodal Bible, the first translation of the Bible into Russian, and the 50th anniversary of the first mass edition of the Bible in Russian, produced by the Russian Orthodox Church after the Communist revolution."

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June 05, 2006

Gonzaga University does an Oz Exhibit

"SPOKANE, Wash. -- It is considered by some to be the United States' first home-grown fairy tale: "The Wizard of Oz," a fantastical story that began as a book and became one of the most popular movies of the 20th century."

"The shoes Judy Garland wore in the 1939 classic film are enshrined in the Smithsonian. The Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Wicked Witch of the West are among the most well-known characters of the cinematic world."

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May 31, 2006

Pre-Raphaelite Books on Exhibit in Minnesota

"The Pre-Raphaelites, a group of artists and poets from the mid-19th century who were dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals and methods and to observing and portraying nature, included such well-known artists and writers as Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris and Oscar Wilde."

"Carleton’s special collections houses many of these masters’ works, from miniscule gift books to larger, torso-sized books, such as the Kelmscott Chaucer, an illustrated and extraordinarily beautiful version of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales."

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May 25, 2006

Rare Chinese Books Preserved in Tunnels and Caves

"t would literally take decades to see everything. Only about 4,000 objects are on display at any given time, with the rest stored in honeycomb-like caverns tunnelled into the mountains behind the three-storey museum."

"Every three months, the treasures are rotated under heavy guard. Only a handful of people are authorized to enter the connecting tunnels and make the switch."

"Archival documents and rare books make up the bulk of the collection."

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May 22, 2006

The Wizard of Oz on Exhibit in L. A.

"It is considered by some to be America's first home-grown fairy tale: "The Wizard of Oz," a fantastical story that began as a book and became one of the most popular movies of the 20th century."

"The shoes Judy Garland wore in the 1939 classic film are enshrined in the Smithsonian. The Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Wicked Witch of the West are among the most well-known characters of the cinematic world."

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May 16, 2006

Audubon Continues to Be a Big Hit

"More than a century and a half after his death, Audubon's works are soaring in popularity, thanks to recent biographies and exhibits, including "Audubon's Aviary," showing at the New York Historical Society through May 7. Similarly, the rarity of Audubon's original engravings means that collectors who flock to rare-book and print dealers pay hundreds of thousands for certain prints.

"'I've sold 15 to 20 different birds in the past five months, prices ranging from $3,000 to $175,000," said Harry Newman of Manhattan's Old Print Shop. "Last year, when they rediscovered the supposedly extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the phone calls we got for Audubon's Ivory-billed ... Whoa, amazing.'"

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May 15, 2006

Scotland to Celebrate 500 Years of Printing

"The quincentenary of that first publication from a Scottish press is almost two years away, but on the 30th of this month, at the National Library of Scotland, a rolling programme of celebratory events for 2008 will be announced, aimed at involving the community as broadly as possible in celebrating the 500 years of printing in Scotland since that modest volume left the Cowgate printing shop."

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May 08, 2006

Incunabula on Exhibit at University of North Carolina

""Incunabula: The World of the Fifteenth Century," a free public exhibit, will run through Aug. 31 in Wilson Library. "Incunabula" refers to books printed from just after Johann Gutenberg invented movable type, about 1454, through the end of that century, said Roberta Engleman, assistant curator of Wilson's Rare Book Collection."

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May 03, 2006

Freud is On Exhibt in New York

"We all know Sigmund Freud as the father of psychoanalysis, but there is another side of Freud that remains unfamiliar to many: the neuroscientist."

"Before identifying the id and the Oedipus complex, before laying the groundwork for millions of patients to take to the couch, Freud spent years investigating nerve transmission in fish, brainstem function in humans, and other hard-core neurological pursuits. Much of the time, Freud recorded his observations by drawing pictures of what he saw through a microscope - and those drawings will soon be on display for the first time in the United States at the New York Academy of Medicine. "

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May 01, 2006

Rare Books Showcased in United Arab Emirates

"AHMEDABAD — A rare 800-year-old book made entirely out of cloth is one among thousands of historic manuscripts housed at the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology in Ahmedabad, where ancient book preserving techniques are being used."

"'The book Dharamvidi Prakran, written in 1,200 AD, is a rare book written on pages made from cloth by a religious scholar who lived during that period,' Jitendra Shah, the director of the LD institute, told PTI."

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April 20, 2006

The Book of Kells in New Jersey

"MIDDLETOWN - Written by Irish monks during the Dark Ages, the Book of Kells is credited by scholars with helping to save m