March 2011 | Jonathan Shipley

Benedikt Taschen Profiled

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Taschen

Americana

Samuel Gerock’s pocket-sized almanac for the year 1777

Archive of First-Person Revolutionary War Accounts Donated to the Museum of the American Revolution

Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, and George Washington Autograph Documents to Auction

Manuscript Leaf from First Draft of 'Atlas Shrugged' to Auction

Maps

F.A. Somerville, Journal of H.M.S. Glory from Nov. 1900 to April 1902,

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Rare Maps and Atlases

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Exhibitions

Austenmania! exhibition scripts

'Pride and Prejudice' TV Scripts Exhibition Launches Jane Austen 250th Birthday Year Celebrations

Mark Twain's Humor Explored in New Exhibition

Notre-Dame's Library of Medieval Manuscripts on Display

Sponsored

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Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Visual Art

Al Milgrom, The Amazing Spider-Man #194 cover with Black Cat's first appearance

Black Cat’s Debut Leads Heritage’s January Comics & Comic Art Auction

Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records

Rare ‘Son of Frankenstein’, Disney, and Orson Welles’ 'Macbeth' Posters to Auction

Rare Books

The Kelmscott Chaucer

Kelmscott Chaucer Sold for $68,750 at Auction

Washington Irving Manuscripts and Tolkien Presentation Copy to Auction

Handbag Bible: Rare Book of the Week

Book People

Students in Summer 2024 RBS course H-65 Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900 in Charlottesville, VA.

Rare Book School Opens Applications for Summer 2025 Courses

New Brian Friel 'FrielDays' Cross-Border Project Details Announced

2024 Sandars Lectures on Bibliography Now Available Online

Auctions

Group of seven notebooks of Eric Morecambe's manuscript joke ideas

Penzler Mysteries, Tolkien Letter, Morecambe's Jokes: Auction Preview

Complete Kelmscott Press Collection Sold For $690,000

John Harris Cover Art, Pan Am Poster, Sondheim's Thesauruses: 2024 Auction Sleepers

Book Arts

Ryoko Adachi, Jack and the Beanstalk, ink-jet print, woodblock print on Japanese kouzo and mitsumata paper

Major Exhibition of Contemporary Artists' Books at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Photographs

The Lee & LEE exhibition

Photographs by Lee Miller and Kate Winslet at Bonhams

New Exhibition Focuses on Robert Louis Stevenson's Final Years in the Pacific

James Baldwin Centennial Marked with Rare Photographs in New Exhibition