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Rare Books and the Rare Book Trade
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Obituaries

Anthony Rota

Published on 14 Dec. 2009
We are very sorry to report the death of Anthony Rota, peacefully on Sunday 13th December. There will be a private family cremation. Details of a memorial service will be announced in the new year. Anthony Rota was President of the ABA from 1971 to 1972, a long-serving ILAB Committee Member, Treasurer and Vice-President, President of the ILAB from 1988 to 1991, and subsequently an ILAB President of Honour ...
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Alan Shelley (1941 - 2009)

Published on 07 Dec. 2009
The death of Alan Shelley from cancer at the age of 68 on November 18th at Chailey Hospice, near Lewes, is an occasion of great sadness to his family and to his many friends both within and without the rare book trade. He had resigned from the Presidency of the ABA only three weeks before on the grounds of ill health after a notably successful spell at a difficult time in the Association's affairs.
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First Major U.S. Exhibition of Qur’ans - Freer Sackler Washington

A landmark exhibition, organized by the Sackler and the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art in collaboration with the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Istanbul, features more than 60 Qur'ans, among the most important ever produced from the Arab world, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan, including works from the permanent collection of the Freer and Sackler galleries plus a number of long-term loans.
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The Rare Book Market Today

For the Yale University Library Gazette Vol. 74, Nos. 3-4. April 2000, and reprinted as a separate pamphlet by the Yale University Library.
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Bibliographies - Polar Regions

Online: Antique maps of Iceland
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Biographies of the Key Figures Involved in the Doves Press

Marianne Tidcombe about the lives of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Harry Gage-Cole, Edward Johnston, John Henry Mason, Edward Philip Prince, and Emery Walker.
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The History of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (A.B.A.) Part 1

This short survey of the British ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATION consists of the account of its first half-century prepared by Dudley Massey for the fiftieth anniversary in 1956 (slightly revised) with a continuation to the present year by Martin Hamlyn. It was published in the ILAB Newsletter 36.
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Angus O’Neill - New President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA)

On behalf of the ILAB committee and all ILAB affiliates, we would like to congratulate Angus O'Neill on his new role as president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA).
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