The University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute will be the new home for the Mackie Family History of Neuroscience Collection, and students and faculty alike are thrilled. The collection was sta... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
A rare English language copy of Russia's Treasure of Diamonds and Stones is set to be auctioned off on October 14th at Heritage Auction Galleries' Signature Rare Books Auction in Beverly Hills. The vo... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
This December 7th in London, Sotheby's will auction off a number of rare books from the late Baron Frederick Hesketh's expansive collection, including a rare first edition of Audubon's The Birds of A... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The Chapin Library at Williams College has recently acquired a 19th-century Qur'an manuscript from the Ottoman Empire. It measures six and one eighth inches long and four inches wide, and has a wallet... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Andalouse This past Tuesday, our friend L.D. Mitchell at The Private Library, discussed Hand-Colored Plates, paying particular attention to the assembly-line process required to manually color engrav... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
These items were still reported missing as of May 29, 2019. Two maps are missing, presumed stolen from the stock of Jonathan Potter Ltd: 1. (34468) "Cornwall" By John Speed. Published London, 1612-162... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
This item was still reported missing as of May 29, 2019. Felice Feliciano: Alphabetum Romanum; 25 hand-coloured letters; publisher's full brown morocco, patterned slipcase. no. 96 of 400 copies. Offic... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
These items were still missing as of May 29, 2019. AUDSLEY, W. & G. Handbook of Christian Symbolism London, Day & Son +145 pp. b&w ill. throughout, with 8 col. plates (most chromo-lithographs). All gi... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Vic of Tavistock Books recently acquired a John Steinbeck manuscript. Read more here. [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
These items were still missing as of May 29, 2019. 1. LAVEDAN, Don Antonio. Tratado de los Usos, Abusos, Propiedades y Virtudes del Tabaco, Cafe, Te y Chocolate: Extractado de los Mejores autores Que ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
