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Christian Hesse Auktionen - Auction 7: Books, Autographs, Prints

2013/05/25

Hesse Auktionen - founded in 2010 - is specialized on valuable books, manuscripts, authographs, and decorative prints of all periods and areas.

Wertvolle Bücher, Graphik, Kunst

2013/05/25

Australian Book Auctions - Voyages and Travels and Other Books and Documents

2013/05/27

Featuring highly important Pacific voyages from a private collection, together with interesting private collections of Australiana and Travel, Fishing Ephemera, Art, General Antiquarian, Children’s and Illustrated Books, and Modern First Editions, many signed, from the collection of Colin Steele.

Sotheby's - Livres et manuscrits

2013/05/29

Founded on March 11, 1744, Sotheby's is one of the oldest auction houses and the oldest company on the New York Stock Exchange. In 90 locations in 40 countries worldwide 250 auctions are held each year in over 70 categories, among them rare books, manuscripts, prints and ephemera auctions.

Sotheby's - Photographies

2013/05/29

Hauswedell & Nolte - Auction 438: Books and Prints

2013/05/28

Artemisia Auctions - Trois collections. Cinéma et Faïences

2013/05/30

The Paris based auction house Artemisia holds several auctions a year on various subjects including prints, drawings and autographs.

Bonhams - 30th Anniversary: Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts

2013/05/30

One of the few surviving Georgian auction houses in London, Bonhams was set up in 1793 when Thomas Dodd, a renowned antique print dealer, joined forces with the book specialist Walter Bonham. Today Bonhams is one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. The Bonhams name is recognised worldwide throughout all sectors of the fine art, antiques and collectors' market, with offices and salesrooms in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, Paris, Hong Kong, and Dubai.

Bubb Kuyper - Books and Prints

2013/05/28

The largest specialized auctioneer of books and works on paper of the Netherlands, and one of the foremost companies in these fields in Western Europe.

Sotheby's - The Library of a Distinguished American Book Collector

2013/06/04

Sotheby’s New York is pleased to offer The Library of a Distinguished American Book Collector in a dedicated auction on 4 June 2013. Acquired over the course of nearly three decades, this collection, expected to fetch over $5 million, reflects the collector’s great intellectual curiosity and eclectic interests, as well as a deeply held passion for American history.

Sotheby's - Changing Focus - A Collection of Russian and Eastern European Contemporary Photography

2013/06/05

Sotheby's - Music, Continental Books & Manuscripts

2013/06/05

Sotheby's - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana

2013/06/05

Bassenge - Photography

2013/06/05

"Galerie Gerda Bassenge Kunst- und Buchauktionen" is an individual house whose distinctive profile is valued throughout the world. We offer long-standing experience to our clients - collectors, museums, art dealers, gallery owners, libraries and book sellers - who we assist in all decisions with competent and individual advice."

Swann Galleries - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints, Ephemera

2013/06/06

Swann Galleries was founded in 1941 as an auction house specializing in Rare Books. Today Swann has separate departments devoted to Photographs, Posters and Prints & Drawings, in addition to Books, Maps & Atlases and Autographs.

CINOA Annual Conference & General Assembly 2013

2013/06/06

The CINOA Conference & General Assembly 2013 will take place in the beautiful city of Vienna from June 6th to June 8th. Beside the official activities, there will be a diversified cultural program.

Bloomsbury Summer Book Fair

2013/06/09

Dealers from the UK and abroad offer fine bindings, antiquarian, illustrated books, travel, modern firsts, children’s books, maps, prints, and ephemera.

The Ephemera Society London Fair

2013/06/09

Major event attracting dealers from mainland Europe and USA with up to 70 tables.

The Ephemera Society London Fair is part of the London Rare Book Fair Week 8-16 June 2013.

SEVEN FAIRS in one week: This is London in June 2013. This will make it the biggest celebration of Print-on-Paper in the World - with seven different fairs in nine days. The fairs will be offering antiquarian and rare books, maps, manuscripts, prints, posters, ephemera and photographs. A specially designed Book Fair Week ticket will be available, which means that visitors just need this single ticket to find out about the fairs - and the joint ticket will give entry to most of them FREE of charge.

London Map Fair

2013/06/08

The largest Antique Map Fair in Europe, established 1980, brings together around 40 of the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers as well as hundreds of visiting dealers, collectors, curators and map aficionados from all parts of the world.

Seminars on Book Collecting at Senate House - Collecting John Camden Hotten

2013/06/11

The seminar on collecting John Camden Hotten will be given by Simon Eliot, Director of the London Rare Books School, as well as Professor of the History of the Book at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Deputy Director of its Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies and visiting Professor of Book History at the Open University. Simon Eliot's publications include Some Patterns and Trends in British Publishing 1800-1919 1994 and A Handbook to Literary Research (with W. R. Owens) 1998. He was an Associate Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has recently been appointed general editor of the new four-volume History of Oxford University Press.

The seminars on various aspects of book collecting are held regularly on the second Tuesday of each month of the academic year at the University of London’s Senate House in central London. Organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (London University) and the Rare Book Society, the speakers are all drawn from among the leading booksellers, academics, historians and collectors. The seminars are aimed at a broad audience including bookcollectors, antiquarian booksellers, historians, librarians, and anyone with an interest in collecting.

Kestenbaum & Company - Fine Judaica

2013/06/13

Rare Book School Summer Course I

2013/06/10

Rare Book School (RBS) was founded in 1983. It provides continuing-education opportunities for students from all disciplines and levels to study the history of written, printed, and born-digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the field.

Weissenböck - 12.000 Devotional Pictures from the Otto David Collection

2013/06/15

PBFA International London Book Fair

2013/06/14

One of many events worth visiting during the International London Book Fair week. The PBFA Summer Book Fairs in London provide an excellent opportunity to browse and buy antiquarian, rare & secondhand books, manuscripts, ephemera and more from over a hundred dealers in the UK and beyond.

7th Annual Rose City Used Book Fair

2013/06/14

Thousands of books offered by independent booksellers.

The Romantic Agony - Books and Prints

2013/06/14

Highlights : Incunabula : Brussels, Louvain, Cologne, Leipzig, Paris, Strasbourg. Manuscripts 14th-18th c. Books of Hours (Rome, Utrecht) illustrated with miniatures. Album amicorum of a Dutch law student c. 1605. Calligraphy. Miniatures. Rare books 16th-18th c. Bibles. Erasmus. Plantin. Dirk Martens. Elzevier. Architecture. Medicine. Militaria. Sciences (astronomy, botany (Ottolander, Knoop, watercolours on vellum). Important collection of emblem books 16th-17th s. Topography. Münster, Cosmographiae universalis 1554. Dahlberg, Suecia antiqua et hodierna, 533 pl. Van Keulen, “De nieuwe groote ligtende zeefakkel”, 18th c., nautical atlas of the British Isles. Atlas impérial et universel, Chatelain 1719, 58 heightened maps. Travels (Java, Greece). Manuscript maps 18th c. Old engravings and drawings. The seasons after Bruegel. Bloemart. Cabinet Crozat. Vredeman de Vries. Modern engravings. Ensor, Delvaux, Picasso, Rops. Original and illustrated editions. Nice bindings. Ernst, Wols. Curiosa. Autographs. Dutch literature. Popular and devotional books and prints. Arts. Archives. Books on books. Belgicana.

56th London International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia (ABA)

2013/06/13

This major three-day event is one of the highlights in the world for book lovers and collectors – and centrepiece of London Book Fair Week. In the light and airy National Hall at Olympia, you will find thousands of rare, unusual and unique items offered for sale by 180 leading UK and international dealers. At the Fair you can view, handle and buy books, maps, prints, photographs, manuscripts, ephemera and original art work spanning the centuries, many items of museum quality. All items are freely available for inspection before purchase and in contrast to the e-book or downloaded text, here you may hold a remarkable piece of history in your hand. You can purchase a text as it first came off the printing press and bound by a craftsman hundreds of years ago - or the very latest collectable author’s first editions.

Bloomsbury Summer Book Fair

2013/06/16

Dealers from the UK and abroad offer fine bindings, antiquarian, illustrated books, travel, modern firsts, children’s books, maps, prints, and ephemera.

The London Photograph Fair

2013/06/16

The UK's premier event for collectors of all types of photography. While there is an emphasis on late 19th and early 20th century photography, there are also exhibitors showing a selection of more contemporary images, a wide range of photobooks, often at below-internet prices, and on occasion, some photographers showing their own work.

Sotheby's - Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper

2013/06/20

Rare Book School Summer Course II

2013/06/17

Rare Book School Summer Course III

2013/06/17

Peter Kiefer - Books and Prints

2013/06/21

Founded in 1979 the auction house Peter Kiefer runs 3 to 4 auctions a year offering rare and valuable books from all centuries. Due to its organisational structure, the auction house is able to auction huge collections, as for example, about 60.000 items of a Southern German prince's library or the 16.000 cookbooks of the Rolf Dittmar Collection.

Book History Workshop

2013/06/24

In its 10th edition the Book History Workshop, organized by Institut d’histoire du livre, offers three courses in the fields of book and printing history, taught by Kristian Jensen, Anne Mœglin-Delcroix with Françoise Lonardoni and Nicholas Pickwoad. (The fourth course by Marianne Besseyre has been cancelled.)

Sotheby's - Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper

2013/07/02

International Summer School - La civiltà italiana ed europea del libro

2013/06/25

The Centro di Ricerca Europeo Libro Editoria Biblioteca (CRELEB) organizes seminars and lectures that strengthen the knowledge of the book in European culture. The International Summer School is open to students, scholars, collectors and antiquarian booksellers.

Masterpiece London

2013/06/27

Masterpiece London, perfectly situated at the peak of the capital’s summer season, brings together exhibitors from across the world renowned for specialising in art, antiques and design of the highest calibre.

Seminars on Book Collecting at Senate House - Cinderella of the Arts

2013/07/09

This seminar will be given by Rob Shepherd of Sangorski & Sutcliffe, founded in 1901 and one of the oldest surviving hand bookbinding companies in England. The business was founded by Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe, who met at bookbinding evening classes taught by Douglas Cockerell at the London County Council's Central School of Arts and Crafts.

The seminar will explore the history of the business and in particular the direct and transforming relationship between craft bookbinding, described as the 'Cinderella of the Arts' by Joseph Zaehnsdorf in 1885, and the Arts and Crafts movement of William Morris, and in particular the changes in this market over the last century.

The seminars on various aspects of book collecting are held regularly on the second Tuesday of each month of the academic year at the University of London’s Senate House in central London. Organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (London University) and the Rare Book Society, the speakers are all drawn from among the leading booksellers, academics, historians and collectors. The seminars are aimed at a broad audience including bookcollectors, antiquarian booksellers, historians, librarians, and anyone with an interest in collecting.

Sotheby's - English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations

2013/07/09

Rare Book School Summer Course IV

2013/07/08

Book Arts Classes, Session 1

2013/07/07

The Wells College Book Arts Center, established in 1993, provides a broad learning opportunity in the arts and crafts of the book. Students learn first-hand the traditions and history of the book through letterpress printing and hand bookbinding courses, a History of the Book course, an introduction to calligraphy course, and special topics courses such as Digital Design and the Artist Book, Boxmaking, Inspiration and the Medieval Binding, and the Printed Book.

Book Arts Classes, Session 2

2013/07/14

Rare Book School Summer Course V

2013/07/22

Rare Book School Summer Course VI

2013/07/22

40th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair (ANZAAB)

2013/07/26

The Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers is proud to present its 40th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair, to be held from Friday July 26 to Sunday July 28 in the University of Melbourne’s historic Wilson Hall. Fine, rare and collectable books, prints, maps and ephemera will be offered for sale by leading Australian and international booksellers. Explore the world of books with knowledgeable booksellers specialising in subjects as diverse as art, literature, travel, Australiana, fine bindings, militaria, sport, natural history, children's books, maps and prints. Entry to the Book Fair is free.

The ANZAAB Melbourne Rare Book Fair is part of Melbourne Rare Book Week, July 18–28. This year even more libraries and museums will join with booksellers to showcase Melbourne as a UNESCO City of Literature. The theme is “a passion for books” — and passionate bibliophiles will find much to interest and entertain them during this extended week of free lectures, exhibitions and entertainment.

http://www.anzaab.com

Rare Book School Summer Course VII

2013/08/02

California Rare Book School - Craig Kallendorf: The Renaissance Book, 1400-1650

2013/08/05

California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by professionals working in all aspects of the rare book community, and for students interested in entering the field.

Founded in 2005, CalRBS is a project of the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. CalRBS is supported by an informal consortium of many of the academic and research libraries and antiquarian booksellers of Southern California.

California Rare Book School - Stephen Davison: Born Digital/Digital Collections

2013/08/05

California Rare Book School - Melissa Conway & Lisa Fagin Davis: Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

2013/08/05

California Rare Book School - Bruce Whiteman: Rare Books for Scholars and Archivists

2013/08/05

Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS)

2013/08/04

Keynote speaker 2013 is Michael Suarez, Director of Rare Book School, Professor of English, University Professor, and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. Specialty dealer will be ANZAAB President Sally Burdon of Asia Bookroom, Macquarie, Australia. Lectures will be given by Terry Belanger, Nina Musinsky, Dan DeSimone, Dan Gregory, Lorne Bair, Kevin Johnson, David Prendergast, Stephen Smith, Rob Rulon-Miller.

California Rare Book School - Johanna Drucker: Artists’ Books: Collection Development and Assessment

2013/08/12

California Rare Book School - Gerald Cloud: Descriptive Bibliography

2013/08/12

California Rare Book School - Susan M. Allen: History of the Book, 200-1820

2013/08/12

California Rare Book School - Mark S. Roosa: Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections

2013/08/12

California Rare Book School - Daniel J. Slive & David Szewczyk: History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th Centuries

2013/08/12

Kurt Schwitters in England

2013/06/02

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was one of the most influential European avant-garde artists to come to prominence in the interwar years. Associated at various times with DADA, Constructivism and Surrealism, he produced paintings, collages, sound pieces, sculpture and installation works, as well as journalism, criticism, poetry and short stories.

The exhibition at Tate Britain examines the late work of Kurt Schwitters and focuses on the period from his arrival in Britain as a refugee in 1940 until his death in Cumbria in 1948. Schwitters was forced to flee Germany when his work was condemned as ‘degenerate’ by Germany’s Nazi government and the show traces the impact of exile on his work. It includes over 150 collages, assemblages and sculptures. Among them are an early example of Schwitters’s unique concept of Merz in the assemblage Merz Picture 46 A and other collages which very often incorporate fragments from packaging and newspapers reflecting British life such as the London bus tickets and Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts wrappers used in Schwitter's work Untitled 1942.

Organised by Tate Britain and the Sprengel Museum Hannover in cooperation with the Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Hannover. The exhibition is shown in spring 2013 at the Tate Britain.

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Ligatus Summer School - Professor N. Pickwoad: The History of European Bookbinding 1450-1830

2013/08/26

The 8th Ligatus Summer School, following the success of the courses in Volos, Patmos, Thessaloniki, Wolfenbüttel, Venice, and Paris is to be held this year at Uppsala University in Sweden. Founded in 1477 the university is the oldest of its kind in Sweden. Its collections of early printed books are made up of donations, ‘war booty’ (from the conquests of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years’ War and including the greater part of Copernicus' own library), purchases and a large collection of Swedish editions, which is particularly comprehensive because of the system of legal deposits that was introduced at the end of the seventeenth century.

The library holds a copy of Sweden's oldest printed book, 'Dyalogus Creaturarum Moralizatus', printed in Stockholm in 1483, as well as the first book published in the Swedish language, 'Aff Dyäffwlsens Frästilse' ("On the temptations of the devil"), printed in 1495. There is also a notable collection of school textbooks from the seventeenth century up to the present day.

Printed books and manuscripts from the library will be shown in both weeks of the 8th Ligatus Summer School. Additional visits to the libraries of Count Carl Gustaf Wrangel in Skokloster Castle and Charles de Geer at Leufstabruk are planned for the first week.

Ligatus Summer School - Dr. G. Boudalis and Dr. A. Velios: Identifying Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean

2013/09/02

43th Antiquarian Booksellers' Seminar

2013/09/13

The 43th Antiquarian Booksellers' Seminar, organized by the German Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (VDA), will take place in Weimar. The programme will include lectures on Nietzsche, Goethe, Schiller, the Bauhaus artists as well as practical courses and excursions.

York National Book Fair

2013/09/20

"One of the most enjoyable book fairs I have visited for a long time" (Rare Book Review). From modest beginning with just 20 exhibitors at the White Swan Inn in York in 1974, the York Book Fair has grown into the largest, and many say friendliest, rare, antiquarian and out-of-print book fair in the U.K. Held over two days, around 200 of this country's leading booksellers offer for sale a breathtaking diversity of books, as well as maps & prints, ranging in price from just a few pounds up to tens of thousands of pounds. There will also be a range of trade stands related to the book trade.

Artelibro Festival del Libro d’Arte 2013

2013/09/19

Since its beginnings, Artelibro had an extraordinary number of visitors, which rose from 20.000 visitors in 2004 to 50.000 in 2012, and many international exhibitors from all over the world, from Japan to the United States. In the past ten years Artelibro hosted about 200 rare book dealers, more than 350 important publishing houses and lots of publishers of artist's books, limited editions and art prints along with more than 130 specialized magazines. In 2010, during the Congress of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, a record of about 15.000 rare and precious books and documents was displayed at the Palazzo Re Enzo.

The motto of the 10th Artelibro Art Book Festival will be: “Music for the Eyes – The Sound of Collecting Books”, which coincides the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth.

Venator & Hanstein - Books, Prints, Manuscripts

2013/09/27

For sixty years Venator & Hanstein belongs to the leading companies in book and print auctions. The beginnings of Venator & Hanstein go back to the 1930s when the idea was created to re-animate the long tradition of book and print auctions in the historically significant publishing city of Cologne. From 1946 to 1950 auctions were held under the company name "Ringbuchhandlung August Nethe Co." on the Hohenzollernring in downtown Cologne, in 1951 the name was changed to "Nethe and Venator". Rolf Venator has been part of this success story from the very beginning and has lead the company under the name "Venator KG" since 1953. The antiquarian book auction house had its first seat in the Breite Strasse and from there moved to St. Apern Strasse. In 1984 Prof. Henrik R. Hanstein joined the company as a partner and the offices were moved to the Kunsthaus Lempertz building. Since 1988 the company has been managed by the partner Karl-Heinz Knupfer.

Venator & Hanstein - Modern and Contemporary Art

2013/09/28

Vancouver Book Fair

2013/09/28

The 2010 and 2012 Vancouver Book Fairs were a great success and included many of British Columbia's as well as some of Canada's finest booksellers. Each fair attracted close to a 1000 visitors. Due to this success, the Vancouver Book Fair Committee has decided to make the fair an annual event. Therefore, we are very pleased to announce that in 2013 this outstanding fair will run for two days on September 28th & 29th.

The Vancouver Book Fair is the only antiquarian, collectible and rare book fair in Western Canada, and will feature many of Western Canada's top booksellers. A wide selection of antiquarian, collectible and rare books, ephemera, maps, prints, manuscripts and works on paper will be on offer at the fair - including Canadiana; children’s and illustrated; fine press and limited editions; history and military history; literature and fine arts; modern first editions and signed copies; natural history; travel and exploration; science and technology as well as many other subject areas. The items on offer will range from 15th century incunabula to 21st century modern first editions.

Everyone including experienced or novice book collectors, librarians, archivists, scholars and people just interested in books and the book arts are certain to find something of interest at the fair. We invite you to visit the fair and peruse and purchase the treasures offered for sale.

Sotheby's - Photographs

2013/10/01

34th Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map and Print Fair (NVvA)

2013/10/04

After the great success in 2012 both Dutch antiquarian booksellers associations, the Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Antiquaren (NVvA) and the Bond van handelaren in Oude Boeken (BOB) will again organize and support an Antiquarian Book Fair where Dutch and foreign dealers present wonderful books, manuscripts, maps and prints from all centuries.

Seminars on Book Collecting at Senate House - The Nineteenth-Century Novel – When the Printed Word was King

2013/10/08

The seminar will address a collecting conundrum. Sales of the most popular novels in the Victorian era were in the tens, even hundreds, of thousands. Booksellers have often dismissed these books as unsaleable ‘dogs’ – but they were the popular sensations of the age, the epitome of taste and fashion. How does the 21st century collector decide what to buy and what to ditch?

This seminar will be given by Brian Lake of Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers. Jarndyce was founded in 1969 and is well known for the strength and depth of its stock, reflected in an impressive series of catalogues. Recent topics have included Charles Dickens, 19th Century Books and Pamphlets, London, Women Writers, Chapbooks and Broadsides.

The seminars on various aspects of book collecting are held regularly on the second Tuesday of each month of the academic year at the University of London’s Senate House in central London. Organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (London University) and the Rare Book Society, the speakers are all drawn from among the leading booksellers, academics, historians and collectors. The seminars are aimed at a broad audience including bookcollectors, antiquarian booksellers, historians, librarians, and anyone with an interest in collecting.

Bath Antiquarian Book Fair

2013/10/11

Around 90 booksellers from all over the country will be offering for sale thousands of books on all subjects, as well as other items such as maps, prints, original art work, posters, manuscript material, autographs, postcards and all manner of printed ephemera.

Reiss & Sohn - Rare and Valuable Books and Manuscripts, Travel, Maps, Atlases, Modern Art

2013/10/29

One of the leading European auction houses: Since 1971 Reiss & Sohn is holding book and map auctions in spring and fall, devoted to the classical fields of antiquarian book trade: rare and valuable books, whole libraries and collections, illustrated books, atlases, manuscripts, incunabula, early printing, science, medicine, mathematics, botanical and zoological works, travel and geography, topography, literature, law and statesmanship, press books, rare maps and views of all parts of the world, decorative prints etc. Reiss & Sohn is regularly exhibiting at international antiquarian book fairs.

Rare Book School Fall Course

2013/10/28

23rd Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair 2013 (ABA)

2013/11/01

The friendliest and most approachable event of the antiquarian book fair calendar: If you are already in the trade, an existing collector, or simply curious about old, antiquarian, collectable books, maps and ephemera, then the Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair at the Chelsea Old Town Hall is not to be missed.

Hartung & Hartung - Manuscripts, Rare and Valuable Books, Autographs, Prints

2013/11/04

Hartung & Hartung holds auctions twice a year in May and November, with a fine selection of manuscripts, autographs, prints, maps, atlases, first editions, illustrated books, especially on German literature, medicine and natural sciences.

Zisska & Schauer - Autographs, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Maps, Prints

2013/11/06

Zisska & Schauer's fields of specialization cover all the core areas – manuscripts; autograph letters and documents; incunabula; early woodcut books; medieval illuminated manuscripts; theology; natural history; bibliography; art history; history; literature; antique maps and atlases; travel; and topographical and decorative prints. The company places major emphasis on scholarly attention to detail and high standards of expertise in cataloguing rare antiquarian items. Each auction is accompanied by a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue containing detailed descriptions of the items offered for sale. These catalogues are characterized by their in-depth knowledge and bibliographic accuracy. They are compiled and researched by a team of experts who are able to draw on the resources of the company's extensive reference library and when necessary, the expertise of independent specialists.

California Rare Book School - Gary Kurutz: Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California

2013/11/04

California Rare Book School - Julie Sweetkind Singer: History of Cartography/Maps

2013/11/04

California Rare Book School - Gawain Weaver: History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials

2013/11/04

12th Paris Map Fair

2013/11/09

The 12th edition of the Paris Map Fair will include a fine selection of travel books offered by specialist antiquarian bookdealers such as Asher Rare Books, Daniel Crouch, Didier Le Bail, Loeb-Larocque, Monsieur le Prince and Les Trois Islets and otherparticipants from France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, United States, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair (ABAC)

2013/11/08

The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Canada is pleased to announce the 2013 Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair.

The book fair has moved to Baillie Court, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The AGO was designed by noted architect Frank Gehry, famous for his works such at the Guggeinheim Museum in Bilbao Spain, The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, The Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, and The Dancing House in Prague. This move is seen by all involved as a major step forward for the book fair, into the modern, comfortable and complementary environment of Ontario’s world famous art gallery.

Seminars on Book Collecting at Senate House - Collecting the Distant World

2013/11/12

For more than thirty years, Michael Graves-Johnston has sourced the finest examples of books, manuscripts and photographs in the fields of Africana, Oceania and Egyptology for many important public and private collections including the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian, Washington, the British Library, London, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and the American University in Cairo. Michael Graves-Johnston has himself travelled extensively throughout western Africa. This seminar will bring together all his wealth of experience in dealing with books and other material relating to the wider world beyond Europe and non-western civilisations.

The seminars on various aspects of book collecting are held regularly on the second Tuesday of each month of the academic year at the University of London’s Senate House in central London. Organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (London University) and the Rare Book Society, the speakers are all drawn from among the leading booksellers, academics, historians and collectors. The seminars are aimed at a broad audience including bookcollectors, antiquarian booksellers, historians, librarians, and anyone with an interest in collecting.

Burgersdijk & Niermans - Books, Manuscripts, Prints

2013/11/12

Due to the flourishing business on the field of printing and publishing the firm Brill found it expedient to dispose of its auction activities and part of the antiquarian stock. Pieter Johannes Burgersdijk (1867-1915) and George David Niermans (1854-1920), former Brill employees, offered to take over these branches. They established their business on Nieuwsteeg 1 and appropriately restored the traditional name of the property, ‘Templum Salomonis’.

Boston, Book, Print and Ephemera Show

2013/11/16

"The other Boston book fair" which opens on the Saturday of the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes Convention Centre.

37th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (ABAA)

2013/11/15

The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair is one of the oldest and most respected antiquarian book shows in the USA. Rare book dealers from the United States, England, Germany and The Netherlands offer rare, collectible and antiquarian books, modern first editions, manuscripts, autographs, maps, atlases, and a plethora of other literary ephemera at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center.

http://www.bostonbookfair.com

Hauswedell & Nolte - Auction 439: Books and Prints

2013/11/19

Cologne Fine Art & Antiques

2013/11/20

The Cologne Fine Art & Antiques has re-established itself in recent years as the leading trade fair for the art world. Covering a broad spectrum of content and facilitating the crossover of modern art, the ancient masters, applied art, design and work on paper, the Cologne Fine Art & Antiques has become an important international event.

Bubb Kuyper - Books and Prints

2013/11/26

The largest specialized auctioneer of books and works on paper of the Netherlands, and one of the foremost companies in these fields in Western Europe.

Art 44 Basel Miami Beach

2013/12/05

Art Basel Miami Beach is the most prestigious art show in the Americas. More than 260 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part, showcasing works by more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Seminars on Book Collecting at Senate House - The Obscure Origins, Wonderful Life, and Shock Death of The Railway Library in British Fiction

2013/12/10

The seminar on the Railway Library in British fiction will be given by John Spiers, Professor at the University of Glamorgan, distinguished publisher who founded the Harvester Press in 1969, and a very serious collector of Victorian books. John Spiers is the editor of Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England 2006, Serious about Series: American ‘Cheap’ Libraries, British ‘Railway’ Libraries and some Literary Series of the 1890's 2007 and The Culture of the Publisher’s Series: Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste 2011.

The seminars on various aspects of book collecting are held regularly on the second Tuesday of each month of the academic year at the University of London’s Senate House in central London. Organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (London University) and the Rare Book Society, the speakers are all drawn from among the leading booksellers, academics, historians and collectors. The seminars are aimed at a broad audience including bookcollectors, antiquarian booksellers, historians, librarians, and anyone with an interest in collecting.

Matisse and the Fauves

2013/09/20

After "Bosch - Bruegel - Rubens - Rembrandt" this will be the second exhibition on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the re-opening of the Albertina. On show will be 140 works by Henri Matisse and the Fauvistes, whose paintings number amongst the pioneers of the Modern era nowadays. The Fauvistes included Matisse as well as André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque and Kees van Dongen.

28th Antiquaria Ludwigsburg

2014/01/23

The 28th Antiquaria Ludwigsburg will start one day before the Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair and can be reached within 10 minutes from Stuttgart. Over 50 exhibitors offer beautiful and extraordinary books, prints, autographs and ephemera.

53rd Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair (VDA)

2014/01/24

The first event of the bibliophile year: For more than 50 years the Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair attracts dealers and collectors from all over the world to the elegant "Kunstverein" in the heart of Stuttgart. Over 80 exhibitors from Germany, Great Britain, the United States, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, France and the Netherlands show rare and valuable medieval manuscripts, books, autographs, and modern prints.

http://www.antiquare.de

16th Century Clair-Obscure - Masterpieces from the Georg Baselitz Collection

2013/11/29

With some 160 works from the collection of the artist Georg Baselitz this exhibition documents the development of one of the most inventive techniques of graphic arts: claire obscure. On show are famous woodcuts works by Lucas Cranach, Hans Burgkmair, Albrecht Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Ugo da Capi and Antonio da Trento.