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More than a year has passed since the discovery of thefts from the Girolamini Library in Naples (Italy). The former library director, Marino Massimo…

Travis McDade, author of an article on The Professionalization of Library Theft, published on the ILAB website, and of a recently published book…

Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie de Beauvoir is remembered as an eminent French philosopher, writer, and feminist. She is best known for her books, She…

For Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the biggest values in life were neither the state finances nor his immense private property, but the books of his…

The California International Antiquarian Book Fair is recognized as one of the world's largest and most prestigious exhibitions of antiquarian books.…

It is the birthday of murderess Marie LaFarge (1816), whose 1840 trial for poisoning her husband with arsenic became a cause célébre throughout…

"A tiny drawing of a kangaroo curled in the letters of a 16th-century Portuguese manuscript could rewrite Australian history. The document, acquired…

The Counter-Reformation began with the Council of Trent (1545-1563) and lasted a full century, until the close of the Thirty Years' War (1648). The…

In 1878, when Chief Thunderwater was 13 years old and not yet a chief, his uncle gave him an extraordinary book, titled The Life and Adventures of…

Sir Sydney Roberts, Secretary of Cambridge University Press, 1922–48, writes: 'The early 1920s were marked by a typographical renaissance which had a…

Ever been in Amsterdam? As in every European city there is much to see. Beautiful old buildings, the historic canals (Amsterdam is one of the cities…

The arts, the book and music – interesting for collectors are artistically designed books by music publishers. Until now this subject was often…