The Bodleian Libraries’ exhibition Treasured which opens today features a range of the most fascinating books, manuscripts and items in its coll
Rare Books
In an act of remarkable generosity, the bibliophile and
In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated manuscript with religious imagery and scenes of everyday life in German-occupied Alsace.
For centuries, evidence of a lost technology was tucked away in archives and libraries around the world.
The British Library has acquired five exceptional medieval manuscripts from the private library at Longleat House, providing fresh insight into Jewish-Christian rela
Bernard Quaritch's May New Acquisitions list is a curated selection of 32 freshly catalogued items. "Amongst them you will find works on duelling, drawing, and dowries for spinsters; translations by…
The Lough Kinale Book Shrine is Ireland’s oldest and largest container for a sacred book and has gone on display for the first time after nearly two years of restoration work.
Our new Rare Book of the Week is Albert Maumené's Les Abres Nains Japonais, the first book ever published in the West about
A complete set of Theodor de Bry's Voyages in Latin including bot
Dealers at this year's Firsts London reported a genuine buzz as more than 4,000 people came through the doors at the Saatchi Gallery including many visit
