[29 books]. SUBJECTS: Afghanistan, Arabian Nights, Babylon, Egypt; Iran, Language (Farsi); Middle East, Persia, Persian Poetry, Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
AUTHORS: George ANTONIUS; Sir Thomas ARNOLD; H. W. (Henry Walter) BELLEW; Pietro BIZARI [BIZZARI]; Philippus CHALLIMACUS; Jacques-Joseph CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC; CLEASIAS; James DARMESTETER; DÉMON STUDIO, Tehran; Shirin EBADI; Lewis EINSTEIN; Charles Boileau ELLIOTT; Mahshid ESSALAT-WEBER; James Elroy FLECKER, [Herman]; Helle FLECKER; James FRASER (1713-1754); James Baillie FRASER (1783-1856); Alfred GUILLAUMEHAFEZ (14th century); Muḥammad Mustajāb ibn ḤĀFIẒ RAḤMAT KHĀN; HAFIZ RAHMAT KHAN BARECH; Barbara HODGSON; William KIRKPATRICK (1754/6-1812); Moritz von KOTZEBUE; Colonel Sir John MALCOLM; Thoma MINADOUS; Azadeh MOAVENI; Henry Vollam MORTON; Major Sir William OUSELEY; William Gifford PALGRAVE (1826-1888); Julia S. H. PARDOE; PHOTIUS; Mahin POURDAD ESSALAT MOBAYAN; Henricus PORSIUS; Alfred "Toby" RAWLINSON; John RICHARDSON (1740 or 1741-1795); Freya Madeline STARK; Emanuel SWEDENBORG (1688-1772).
AUTHORS: Jacob BIGELOW – Johann Heinrich BOECKLER – Isaac CASAUBON – Ludwig DODERLEIN – Joseph David EVERETT – Denis PETAU [Dionysius Petavius] – Augustin PRIVAT-DESCHANEL – Pierre SALET – Arthur SCHLEEDE – Thomas Joseph Heinrich SCHELLEN – Eduard Oscar SCHMIDT – Erich SCHNEIDER –Gaspar SCHOTT – Jan Arnoldus SCHOUTEN – Garrett Putnam SERVISS – Nathaniel Southgate SHALER – Harlow SHAPLEY – Joseph-Aignan SIGAUD de LAFOND – Ludwik SILBERSTEIN – Benjamin SILLIMAN – Samuel SMILES – James Edward SMITH – Charles Piazzi SMYTH – Mary SOMERVILLE – South Kensington Museum – William SPOTTISWOODE – Johann Heinrich Conrad Gottfried Gustav STEINMANN – George STEPHENSON – Joannes STOBAEUS – Gaius SUETONIUS – Charles H. SYLVESTER – SYNESIUS of Cyrene
Mark Hodkinson ponders the nature of our personal book collections, why and how we gather books, what it says about us, and how we ever expect to find time to read them all.
" Books, glorious books — confessions of a bibliomaniac"
As a Radio 4 documentary about book collectors airs, the Times deputy literary editor, James Marriott, who lives in a room full of volumes, admits to his problem.
Sandra Hindman is owner and founder of "Les Enluminures" with galleries in Chicago, Paris and New York specialising in manuscripts and miniatures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the gallery also handles rings and jewelry from the same periods.
In this podcast Sandra has invited collector Benjamin Zucker and looks at their roles and relationship as dealer and collector. While this podcast focusses on the current "Diamonds" exhibition, it also reveals the fascination to collect, the handling of manuscripts and the knowledge needed to deal in historical items.
The 43rd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will take place this weekend, one of the oldest and most respected antiquarian book shows in the country. But not the only bibliophile event in Boston!
The annual fall gathering for booklovers, the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s beautiful Back Bay for its 43rd year, November 15-17, 2019.
“I felt strong enough to lift a mountain” declared Alexandre Dumas after a visit to Georgia in 1858.
Presidents of ILAB’s member associations certainly felt equally inspired after a week of meetings in the capital, Tbilisi.
