rare books
On 27th November 2013, Sotheby’s London will offer a first edition of the most important book in the history of science-Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (“Math
Here's a quick reminder and run-down of bookish events in Boston this weekend, for those lucky enough to be in the area.
LOS ANGELES—From February 7-9, 2014, thousands of book lovers, rare book dealers, and scholars will converge at the Pasadena Convention Center for the
The only known handwritten copy of Joy Bells, one of Siegfried Sassoon’s most sardonic anti-war poems, is to be sold at Bonhams sale of Books
Today’s medical professionals face the same problems as 18th Century physician Robert Pitt: should apothecaries be allowed to prescribe medicine? Pitt’s book ‘The Antidote: or, the Preservati
When Serendipity Books of Berkeley, California, closed in September 2011, the auctioneers were summoned, for its longtime owner, Peter B.
One hundred and fifty books from the late Sir Robert Horton’s collection of the Aldine editions of Latin and Greek masterpieces produced in Venice in the late 15th and early 16th century are to be
