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Bologna 2010 - ILAB Congress and International Antiquarian Book Fair

The Best Place for Rare Books, Old Books, Antiquarian Books, Modern First Editions, Illustrated Books, Atlases, Manuscripts, Autographs! The Italian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ALAI) will welcome more than 100 delegates and exhibitors to the 39th ILAB Congress and 23rd International Antiquarian Book Fair. More ...

A Bibliophile of huge Ec(h)o

Fresh from his stint as Special Guest Curator at the Louvre, in September 2010 Umberto Eco - philosopher, author and rare book collector - will open the ILAB Congress and International Book Fair. More ...

Rare Book Film Festival at the Cineteca di Bologna

Among the other events for advertising the 39th ILAB Congress and 23rd International Antiquarian Book Fair, the ALAI is organizing a Rare Book Film Festival. The prestigious Cineteca di Bologna has enthusiastically embraced the idea, showing films related to books and antiquarian book dealers during the Congress week. All the famous movies will star a librarian or a rare booksellers among the main characters. The Cineteca will also realize a medley of the most important scenes related to bibliophily, which will be screened at Palazzo Re Enzo. More ...

ITALY - REST OF THE WORLD

A football (soccer) match on the occasion of the ILAB Congress and International Antiquarian Book Fair in Bologna. Players list ...

ILAB Launches New Stolen Book Site

We, as an organization and as individual antiquarian booksellers, do all we can to combat theft of books. As the world’s leading rare book dealers we have always worked successfully with law enforcement organizations, librarians and other interested persons to reclaim stolen property and bring thieves to justice. With the new ILAB Stolen Book Database we have lifted our technology into the 21st century. More …

New Website for One of the Most Prestigious Prizes

The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography publicizes the League's support for the original scholarship on which the rare book trade so much depends. The new website www.ilabprize.org introduces the Prize Winners 2010, the history of the Prize since the early 1960s, and the future of the Prize with a list of books which have already been submitted to the upcoming 16th Award in 2014. More ...

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  • James Cook und die Entdeckung der Südsee

    10 May 2009 - 13 Sep 2010

    An exhibition about a world almost unkown today, a scholarly recount of the life of one of the most famous explorers, and an exciting insight into the ideas and achievements of the...

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  • Enduring Love - 1st Edition/1st Printing

    McEwan, Ian

    Bookseller: Books Tell You Why

    Enduring Love - 1st Edition/1st Printing
    Hardcover. 8vo. A most handsome First Edition/First Printing in Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Ian McEwan directly on... More

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    Price: 600.00 USD

  • A New & Correct Map of the Trading Part of the West Indies, including...

    Henry Overton

    Bookseller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.

    A New & Correct Map of the Trading Part of the West Indies, including the Seat of War between Gr. Britain and Spain; Likewise the British Empire in America . . . 1745
    Overton's rare and decorative map of North America is one of the most fascinating large format English maps of America published in the 18th... More

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    Price: 39500.00 USD

  • La Mode Pratique- Issues No. 1- No.52 1957.

    Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery

    La Mode Pratique- Issues No. 1- No.52 1957.
    An entire run of issues for the year 1907. Complete with original colour covers. Illustrated throughout with full colour covers and further... More

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    Price: 1250.00 USD

  • Biblisches Engel- u. KunstWerck (1694); Historischer Bilder Bibel - Anderer...

    Krauss, Johann Ulrich

    Bookseller: Books Tell You Why

    Biblisches Engel- u. KunstWerck (1694); Historischer Bilder Bibel - Anderer Theil (1699), Dritter Theil (1698), Vierdter Theil (1698)
    Full-Leather. 4to. Bound in period blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards with raised bands, clasps are missing. Chipped pages showing tears and... More

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    Price: 750.00 USD

ArticlesRare Books - Latest Articles

  • A Bibliophile's Paradise

    A Bibliophile's Paradise

    “Dreaming of a store devoted to books about books? Wake up to reality; Oak Knoll Books makes this fantasy come true.”

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  • Don't mention the Mockingbird!

    Don't mention the Mockingbird!

    An article by Sharon Churcher about Harper Lee whose book "To Kill A Mockingbird" was translated into nearly 50 languages and turned into the Oscar winning movie starring Gregory Peck.

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  • All Things Bright and Beautiful - Rare Books and Superb Bindings

    All Things Bright and Beautiful - Rare Books and Superb Bindings

    ‘I’m sorry, sir’, I replied, ‘George is dead’. ‘Since when?’ ‘September 1940’. ‘I’m so sorry. Was it sudden?’ I am regularly addressed as George, who was in fact my great-grandfather. He had one child, a daughter, who married a Mr Coward. When she inherited the business, it was decided to retain the founder’s name. Sheila Markham in conversation with Edward Bayntun-Coward of George Bayntun.

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  • www.AntiquarianAuctions.com: an internet auction venue run by booksellers for dealers

    www.AntiquarianAuctions.com: an internet auction venue run by booksellers for dealers

    Specialist online auctions for rare books, maps & prints, documents, letters, ephemera and vintage photography: AntiquarianAuctions.com has been developed by Clarke’s Africana & Rare Books (ABA member) and over the past five years have run over seventy successful online auctions.

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  • Lawyers open cache of unpublished Kafka manuscripts

    Lawyers open cache of unpublished Kafka manuscripts

    Franz Kafka wanted all his manuscripts to be burned after his death, but his friend Max Brod disregarded the request. Now a Swiss bank opens for safety deposit boxes containing manuscripts and letters.

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