34 items on, or authored by, three Portuguese Golden Age prose masters: D. Francisco Manuel de Mello, Duarte Ribeiro de Macedo & Father António Vieira, with full-color illustrations
56 books (authors A-C): fully illustrated catalogue relating to the MICROSCOPE and MICROSCOPY. Authors include: Jacob Abbott, George Adams, Jr., Henri Philippe Adan, Roy Morris Allen, American Journal of Microscopy, American Monthly Microscopical Journal, American Optical Company, Henry Baker, Sir Robert Ball, Henry Charlton Bastian, Ernst Bäumler, Edward Bausch, BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO., Lionel Smith Beale, Conrad Beck, Richard Beck, Louis Bell, J. H. Hobart Bennett, Billings Microscope Collection, Brian Bracegridle, Savile Bradbury, Walter Burrells, William B. Carpenter, Thomas Chalmers, CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Angelo Ciniselli, Reginald S. Clay & Thomas H. Court, Arthur C. Cole, A. Frederick Collins, H. J. Conn, Mordecai Cubitt Cook, Julian D. Corrington, M. I. Cross, William Crossing, James Crowther, and more.
In the 1970s, theatre writer and bibliophile John Wolfson began accumulating what was to become one of the largest and most rare collections of works on Shakespeare in the world.
Indeed, “Books don’t just furnish a room,” Michael Dirda writes in Browsings. “. . . Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world.”
Leonardo da Vinci was a tireless and inquisitive reader. He owned more than 200 books about science and technology as well as literary and religious topics. An exhibition organized by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Berlin State Library at the Museo Galileo in Florence sheds new light on the intellectual cosmos of the artist, engineer, and philosopher, who remains as fascinating as ever 500 years after his death.
« As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death » (Leonardo da Vinci)
2019 commemorates the 500th anniversary of da Vinci, institutions worldwide have launched events and exhibitions.
The New York Times reviews the recent publication by Margaret Leslie Davis: "THE LOST GUTENBERG: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey", describing the story of the American book collector Estelle Doheny and her acquisition of a Gutenberg Bible.
Un salon en pleine expansion...
Le SALON LIVRES RARES & OBJETS D’ART qui s’est tenu sous la nef du Grand Palais du 12 au 14 avril réunissait 181 libraires dont 55 étrangers venant de 14 pays différents, et 52 experts en objets d’art.
Today marks the 1st International Provenance Research Day with more than 60 cultural institutions in Germany, Great Britain, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland organizing large number of symposiums and workshops at museums, archives and libraries. Coinciding with this important initiative, ILAB launches the videos of the New York Provenance Symposium.
The EU regulation on the import of cultural goods has been adopted by the Parliament on March 12, 2019. Manuscripts, incunabula or books more than 200 years old, a value higher than EUR 18,000 and originating from outside the EU will require an importer statement as from 2025.
