Rebecca Rego Barry
As readers of this blog will recall, antiquarian medical books are a particular interest of mine, so it was great fun to browse the catalogue of Bonhams' upcoming auction of the medical and scienti
Frances Steloff’s famous Manhattan bookshop is the subject of an exhibition at Penn Libraries
What used to be a biannual accounting of newly published books about books has become quarterly, it seems, which is good news for bibliophiles.
Part II of the sale of world traveler, adventurer, and book collector
Seeing not one but two copies of the magnificent 1913 artist's book, La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay, surface at auction t
We heard today the sad news that world-renowned fashion designer (and bibliophile) Karl Lagerfeld has died.
Last week, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore put on display a little-known but extraordinary nineteenth-century prayer book woven entirely from silk on a Jacquard loom.
The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, announced last week a batch of acquisitions at its Library Collec
Although the Rare Book Week West crowds have shifted north by now, opening this weekend at the Huntington Library in San Marino is an
