Rare Book News

Digitizing Punjab University's Rare Books

"Initiating the process of digitisation a few weeks ago, officials have completed scanning of nearly 700 out of the total of 1,492 manuscripts. They aim at completing the process by the end of this year. "

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Edgar Allan Poe at the Philadelphia Free Library

"'QUOTH THE RAVEN, “Nevermore.'”

"So says Edgar Allan Poe anyway. But what does “Nevermore” sound like with a Philly accent?"

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Thomas Jefferson Law Books being Restored

"University of Virginia law school librarians are trying to restore a collection of rare law books that were selected by Thomas Jefferson for the library."

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3 Millionth Book Purchased by UC Riverside Libraries

"UCR Libraries will celebrate the acquisition of its 3 millionth volume in a ceremony on April 18 at 2:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Tomás Rivera Library on the UC Riverside campus."

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Digitizing Rare Manuscripts at Cairo's American University

"The American University in Cairo (AUC) has digitising its collections of rare Egyptian manuscripts in a step aiming to preserve centuries of Egyptian and Middle Eastern history."

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Flash Mob at Ontario Bookshop

"The shopping spree was organized by Kelly Ouellette and Pat Ryan as part of Cash Mob Windsor, a grassroots consumer activist group dedicated to supporting merchants in the community."

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Shakespeare on Exhibit at the Bancroft Library

"Unabashed bibliophiles, English literature buffs and lovers of Elizabethan tragicomedy unhurried in their campus meanderings should make a beeline for the Bancroft Library, where they’ll discover a display of rare printed works by William Shakespeare."

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Rare Book Auction in Paris

"On March 28, Binoche & Giquello, in association with Sotheby's, will offer some 190 lots featuring modern masters such as Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Giacometti, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec and Sonia and Robert Delaunay. The books come from the library of R. & B. L., a French couple only identified by their initials. Books can be viewed presale at Sotheby's Paris beginning March 23"

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Rare Literary Works at Denison University

"Isolated on the seventh floor of Denison University's library is a book of Psalms dating from 1492, the year of Columbus' landing in the Americas, and a treatise on alchemy copied by a scribe more than a half century before Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses, sparking the Protestant Reformation."

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14th Centry Haggadah in New York

"A priceless 700-year-old Passover Haggadah will travel from the UK to New York after painstaking microscopic preservation work carried out by Manchester University."

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Edward Gorey on Exhibit at Columbia University

"Andrew Alpern’s four-decade-long pursuit of writer and artist Edward Gorey's books and ephemera began during his frequent trips to the Gotham Book Mart across from his Midtown office, where he was working as an architect."

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Westmount Book Fair: 20 Years

"Since 1992, Wilfrid de Freitas has brought together fellow antiquarian booksellers from Quebec and Ontario at Westmount’s Selwyn House School to show off a number of gems from their stock of rare books..."

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Charles Dickens' 200th Birthday at Mortimer Rare Book Room

"In honor of Charles Dickens 200th birthday on Feb. 7, the Mortimer Rare Book Room has collected many original publications and put them on display."

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Rare Books on Exhibit in Plymouth, MA

"“Written, Printed and Drawn: Rarities from Plymouth’s Past” is a special exhibition of the archival documents, rare books and maps from the collections of Pilgrim Hall Museum"

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Rare Book Restoration Workshop

"The Herrick District Library will host a workshop on rare book care and restoration led by restoration expert Kari Miller Fenwood"

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