The Inside Story of the $8 Million Heist From the Carnegie Library: Precious maps, #books and artworks vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years. Far from a crime just against the library, the theft was a crime against the world’s cultural heritage. Everywhere they looked, the auditors found a staggering degree of destruction and looting.
A rare book the size of a matchbox written by the teenage Charlotte Brontë will go on public display for the first time after a
“Once upon a time, a university student called Chris Browne decided to take up book collecting. It was 1970, and he bought a first edition
#1: The book is where Singapore got its knowledge about Sang Nila Utama and the Singapore stone from. #2: It’s extremely rare – and probably worth thousands of
Rare Audubon bird book displayed at Liverpool library – One of the world’s rarest books by the 19th Century US artist and ornithologist John James
(via Chetham’s Library on Twitter: “Now that’s what I call an endpaper. Dutch gilt endpapers on C18th binding of Guillim’s Display of Heraldry (1679)… ”)
The most expensive book at New York’s Strand Bookstore is a 1935 edition of Ulysses, illustrated by Henri Matisse, and signed by Matisse and James