In the video below, ABAA member Dr. Sandra Hindman presents a brief overview of medieval manuscript illumination, focusing on their artistic value. [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from December 2011
Entries from November 2011
This book was still reported missing as of June 4, 2019. The following book was reported stolen: Surname: {DETMOLD Initial: E J} Title: THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Subtitle: Tales From The Thousand and One Nig... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
These items were still reported missing as of June 3, 2019. The following items have been reported stolen: 1. Title: Kim. Authors: Kipling. Rudyard. Publication date: 1901 Description: FIRST EDITION. ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Bon Appetit recently named the "7 Best Culinary Bookstores in America" and ABAA firms Rabelais (Portland, ME) and Amber Unicorn (Las Vegas, NV) made the list! (If you've browsed either shop's inventor... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
UPDATE: These items were recovered. The following items were stolen during the BuchWien last weekend: Schindelmayer, C.R.: Taschen-Atlas in XXXXV Karten. Wien, Schraembl, 1807. With engraved title and... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following items have been reported stolen: Title : THE F.B. NIGHTINGALE ARCHIVE PRIVATE STEREO PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHINA : 1920-1921 Authors : Frederick B. Nightingale (1885-195?) Date of publication :... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The awards ceremony for the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest was held last month in the Library of Congress and included a special presentation by Mark Dimunation, in which he showed off so... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Last weekend's 35th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair was a great successlots of incredible material was being offered by dealers and each day the fair was filled with enthusiastic at... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following item has been reported stolen from the collections of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African, Studies, Northwestern University: Balthazar Telles The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethi... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
An unpublished manuscript written by a fourteen-year-old Charlotte Brontë will go up for auction at Sotheby's London next month. The manuscript is of a mini-magazine entitled The Young Man's Magazin... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]