Rare Books
One of the oldest surviving copies of The Aeneid, an illuminated manuscript written and illustrated in Rome sometime around 400 A.D., has been digitized by the Vatican Library and is now freely…
Boston – The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (BIABF) is making its much-anticipated return to the Hynes Convention Center in downtown Boston from November 11-13, 2022.
A new online project to make historic correspondence related to the founding of the Oxford English Dictionary freely available is now underway.
The University of Michigan (U-M) Library announced last week that its 1610 Galileo manuscript—“
Fine Books & Collections' autumn issue arrives in mailboxes this week and next. Unintentionally, 'destinations' became a theme for this issue. For our cover story, literary tourist Nigel Beale…
While researching my recent posts about bestsellers from 100 years ago (see parts 1
Seventy-five years ago, in the winter of 1947 at the University of Cambridge, John Carter delivered a series of three le
2022 has been a landmark year for Charles Darwin, the English scientist best known for his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species.
London — Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair, organised by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA), will return from 16-18 September for its 65th edit
In our current issue, Nick Basbanes talks with historians Andrew Pettegree and Arthur Der Weduwen about their latest book, "The Library: A Fragile History."
