Update 5/24/19: This item has been recovered and is no longer missing! The following item has been reported stolen: Original Century Magazine cover artwork by Frederic Dorr Steele. Blue the predominate color, matted, ~ 20" x 16". If you have any information on this item, please contact Vic Zoschak at 510-814-0480 or vjz@tavbooks.com [more Stolen: Original Century Magazine Cover Artwork by Frederic Dorr Steele]
This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : EVRIPIDIS tragoediae septendecim Authors : EURIPIDE Date of publication : February, 1503 Publisher : Aldus Manutius, Venice Description : XVIIIth century half calf over coloured paper boards, calf label and gilt-lettered title on spine, raised bands. Entirely printed in Greek type. This is the first volume of Euripides: a second volume was published by Aldus the same year If you have any information on this item, please contact Vincenzo Ferro at enzoferro@bibliopathos.it or +39 335 6327764 [more Stolen: EVRIPIDIS tragoediae septendecim]
The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Manuscript, one leaf, written in French. Date of publication : ca 1839 Description : A peace treaty that should put an end to the first Carlist War in the early 19th century. Contact : Librería Miguel Miranda at libreria@libreriamiranda.com or (+34) 914-294-576 [more Stolen: 1839 Peace Treaty]
The following book has been reported missing: CRANE, STEPHEN. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton, 1895. 8vo, original tan buckram with red and black decorations and lettering. Four pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. First edition. BAL 4071, printing 1; Starrett 3, first state; Wright III, 1257. Inscribed on the front blank by Elbert Hubbard to his wife: "Bertha E. Hubbard / November 21, 1895 / from E. G. H." On the front paste-down is an original ink invitation in a calligraphic hand: "Come & take Pot Luck at the Sign of the Lanthorn and meet Stephen Crane - Tuesday Evening April the seventh at Seven o'clock - One Twenty Six William St. New York." Above the invitation is an ink drawing of a lanthorn. Later bookplate of San Francisco collector William M. Fitzhugh on the verso of the front free endpaper. Apparently other mementoes were once tipped into this copy: something was once removed from the front and rear paste-downs, leaving the usual marks. Cloth a little soiled; very good copy. If you have any information on this item, please contact John Crichton at (415) 398-0414 or books@brickrow.com. Still missing as of 5/24/2019. [more Missing: First Edition of 'The Red Badge of Courage']
The following item has been reported stolen from Ft. Lauderdale, FL: MALTA, Knights of. Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Giovanni Battista Rondinelli, editor. , , , 203, pp. With an engraved title-page and 38 full-page engraved plates, including thirteen with four portraits each (three in one case) of Grand Masters of the Order plus 21 with a large narrative scene enframed by woodcut borders. Folio, 325 x 220 mm, bound in full 17th-century vellum, gilt central arabesque and fillets on both covers, spine gilt in compartments, leather label lettered in gilt, a.e.g. . If you have any information on this item, please contact Peter Kraus at (212) 772-8787 and reference Beth McGowan. [more Stolen:Knights of Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem]
This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Authors : Goya Description : Goya etching: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, approx size in frame 45cm x 35cm If you have any information on this item, please contact Alix de Francia at alix@alixpdf.plus.com or +44 (0)7890 365407. [more Stolen Goya Etching]
Robert Frost enthusiasts have reason to celebrate this week, as it was announced that a collection of rare Frost material was donated to the State University of New York at Buffalo. The donor Jonathan Reichert is a professor emeritus at the university and his father was close friends with Frost. Even though Frost was sixty years older than Reichert, he still formed a friendship with the young man and engaged Reichert in earnest conversations. "He was always wrestling with big ideas&and what was interesting is later on you discovered that that talk appeared in poems," Reichert said. "Conversations in our schoolhouse in Vermont, long evenings of conversation&and then later, a new poem would be published, and there would be lines you'd swear you'd heard before." The collection is comprised of letters, books, audio, and photographs and "chronicles a 24-year friendship between the beloved American poet and Victor Reichert, a Cincinatti rabbi who summered with Frost in Vermont." The items interest scholars because they provide some information about Frost's religious beliefs, which has been the subject of debate for years. Jonathan Reichert says that Frost characterized himself as an "Old Testament Christian." Reichert interprets this to mean that Frost "saw that the laws that Judaism had built up really were not the essence, and that Jesus was a great prophet, rather than seeing Jesus as the son of God, or the savior." Michael Basinski, curator of The Poetry Collection of the Univ... [more Rare Robert Frost Collection Sheds Light on His Religious Beliefs]
You have until the end of April 2013 to submit a book to this prestigious bibliographic contest! A prize with prestige and tradition, a strong support for scholarship: The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography of $10,000 US is awarded every fourth year to the authors of the most outstanding works on the history of the book. Famous scholars like Jean Peeters-Fontainas, I. C. Koeman and Anthony Hobson belong to the prize winners alongside Lotte Hellinga and Jan Storm van Leeuwen who were honoured with the 15th Prize in September 2010. Both Lotte Hellinga's monumental "Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library, BMC. Part XI – England" and Jan Storm van Leeuwen's opus magnum on "Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century" are shining examples for the enormous amount of knowledge - and work - which stands behind such brilliant studies in a scientific field that is essential for every kind of academic research, and for the rare book trade. The 16th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography will be awarded in 2014 to one or more books about books published in any language and in any part of the world between 2009 and 2012. Publishers, librarians, collectors, antiquarian booksellers and all book lovers are very welcome to submit books to the prize until the end of April 2013 by sending a single copy to the Prize Secretary: Arnoud Gerits (Distelvlinderweg 37 d, 1113 LA Diemen, Netherlands). Any aspect of bibliography (e.g. enumerative, textual,... [more ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography]
The following notebooks were stolen from a car in Lithia, Florida. They belonged to a collector/scholar and contained 40 years of research. If you have any information on either the notebooks or the ephemera they contained, please contact Loy Glenn Westfall at 813-990-9847 or Keywestrfall@aol.com. Inside the first black three-ring notebook is a one-of-a kind collection of Key West cigar labels. There is a white tagon the binding with "KEY WEST, A-K" on it. Along with the labels are photographs and documentation on a number of the labels. They were filed alphabetically from a (A) AFRICORA to "J" and include rare labels such as CORTEZ, some factory litho labels (photo of a lector at a podium from a 1917 TOBACCO LEAF article), as well as an 1853-1903 green backdrop EL PRINCIPE DE GALES label. There are also some GATO labels, including LA VISTA DE GATOVILLE. The second white three ring notebook has over 50-60 rare Key West duplicate labels. There are a number of SAN CARLOS labels as well as others with the Key West name on them. All the labels are in plastic sleeves, and a number of them have documentation on a white sheet attached, some with the name Loy Glenn Westfall on the information sheets. [more Stolen Notebooks]
Below is the list of the books that De Caro has allegedly stolen from the Library of the Abbey of Montecassino. If you have any information about this material, please contact: Colonello Raffaele Mancino Carabinieri Comando Tutela Patrimonio Culturale Reparto operativo via Anicia 22 00155 Roma Italia tel. +39 06 585631 fax +39 0658563200 e-mail raffaele.mancino@carabinieri.it INCUNABLES Aliaco, Petrus de Concordantia astronomiae cum theologia... Augustae vindelicorum, Herardus Ratdolt, 1490 Aristoteles Opera Venetiis, per Aldi Manucii, 1495 Gaza, Theodorus Introductionae grammatices libri quator Eiusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequam pulcrtum Apollonii grammatici de constructione libri quator Herodianus de numeris Venetiis, Aldus Manutius, 1495 Lucretius Titus Carus De Rerum Natura. Studio Hieronymi Avancii Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1500 Regimontanus, Johannes Astronomicon epitoma Venetiis, M. Romanurum, 1496 Regimontanus, Johannes Kalendarium magistri Joannis de Monteregio Augustae Vindelicorum, E. Ratdolt, 1489 16th CENTURY Platone Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera (Venetiis, in aedib. Aldi, et Andreae soceri , mense Septembri 1513) Alberti, Leon Battista Leonis Baptistae Alberti, viri doctissimi, de equo animante: ad Leonellum Ferrariensem principem libellus: Michaelis Martini Stellae cura ac studio inuentus, & nunc demum per eundem in lucem editus Basilea , 1556 Copernico, Niccol? Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri 6 Basileae,... [more Books Stolen from the Library of the Abbey of Montecassino]