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For three days in 2015, the four surviving original copies of Magna Carta will be brought together for the first time, the British Library has…

It’s a thrilling experience, a rite of passage into the trade. A member of the public thinks so highly of your skills as a book maven, (or your…

Several years ago I had a customer who occasionally bought an expensive book. He was not a regular, but sometimes came by to buy something, I think…

The man who introduced chewing gum to Australia came from much humbler beginnings. Macpherson Robertson, founder of MacRobertson's Steam…

Since the Neolithic age, humans have attempted to track lunar cycles and understand their relationship with natural phenomena like the changing…

July 19th is the birthday of inventor Samuel Colt (1814), who is remembered for the revolver that bears his name. Colt didn't invent the revolver but…

During the 41st ILAB Congress, preceded by ILAB's International Antiquarian Book Fair, both in Paris in April 2014, and both coinciding with…

David Mason discovered his love of literature in a bathtub at age eleven, at fifteen he was expelled from school. For the next decade and a half, he…

The average American eats eleven pounds of chocolate per year. Though its form has changed over the millennia, chocolate is one of the few foods that…

Press release, published on behalf of the Munich auction house ZISSKA & SCHAUER: "... early on 2 August 2013 our Executive Director, Mr. Herbert…

Buying collections is always an exiting business, at least for me. There are so many elements of surprise, even if you have an idea what is in the…

The seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 was a decisive event also in the world of book collecting and antiquarian bookselling. Hundreds of rare…