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ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography receives further generous donation of US$25,000 from B.H. Breslauer Foundation
14 Jul 2019
The endowment of the ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography has recently been funded with a further generous donation of $25,000 from the B.H.…
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Book Fairs
A library of one's own: Meet the man who owns 12,000 books...
20 Jun 2019
... and now organises the Melbourne Rare Book Week.
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Booksellers
Mario Giupponi re-elected as President of ALAI, the Italian Antiquarian Booksellers Association
23 May 2019
At the annual meeting of ALAI on Tuesday, 21 May 2019, Mario Giupponi, bookseller from Riva del Garda in Northern Italy, was re-elected as president…
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Bibliography
Swedish Book History - Swedish Contributions to Classical Philology by Per Rålamb
23 May 2019
The Swedish Antiquarian Booksellers Association, Svenska Antikvariatfôreningen alerted ILAB to the recently published bibliography: "Swedish…
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Provenance Security
International trade means keeping track of stolen items is more important than ever
23 May 2019
The Proper Title: In the wake of more high-profile book thefts, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers is tackling head-on the sometimes…
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Book Fairs
Shakespeare's First Folio Comes Home after 40 Years
20 May 2019
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…
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Collecting
New publication by Chatwin Books (US) looks at today's book collecting
13 May 2019
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…
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Libraries
Leonardo da Vinci: reflected in his library
05 May 2019
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…
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Renaissance
1519 - 2019 : Commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci
01 May 2019
« 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…
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Articles The Lost Gutenberg
Press Articles
Tracking down the story of a Gutenberg Bible and a remarkable female collector
24 Apr 2019
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…
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Book Fairs
Un salon à la page !
17 Apr 2019
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…
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Articles Roger Treglown President ABA
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Roger Treglown is the new president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (UK)
15 Apr 2019
Treglown, who operates from an office in Macclesfield, believes he is "the first president of the venerable ABA - the world's oldest art trade…
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