Fairs | March 10, 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Florida Antiquarian Book Fair This Weekend

Coming up this weekend, the 30th annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. In honor of that, the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association has posted an interview on the fair's beginnings with Michael Slicker, ABAA proprietor of Lighthouse Books in St. Petersburg, FL.

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Auctions

Title opening of the Kelmscott Press edition of "Reynard the Fox" (1892).

Gutenberg Bible Leaf, Katherine Dunham Correspondence, J.P. Morgan's Jewels: Auction Preview

Barbara Taylor Bradford Inscribed First Editions, Writing Desks, and Typewriter to Auction

Andersen Rarities, NASA Photos, Qur’an Manuscripts: Auction Preview

Maps

John Rocque’s Plan of The House, Gardens, Park & Hermitage of Their Majesties at Richmond; and of their R.H. the Prince of Wales & the Princes Royal at Kew

Maps of 18th Century Gardens: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Sunderland Collection Rare Cartographical Loan on Display

16th Century Cartographer's Library Recreated at TEFAF Maastricht

Book People

Jenna Silver

University of Iowa Librarian Jenna Silver on Lee Harvey Oswald's Autopsy and the Sackner Archive

Executive Director Elysa Voshell to Leave Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Charles Dickens's Descendants to Work as Guest Stewards at His Museum

Book Arts

LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates

Bach Manuscript Inspires Bodleian Libraries Concert

New Exhibition of First Editions and Artworks Celebrates Edward Gorey Centenary

Rare Books

Black Book of Hours

Black Book of Hours: Rare Book of the Week

New Rare Book Shop Philip Salmon & Company Opens Its Doors in Boston

Title of Work Deciphered In Sealed Herculaneum Scroll Via Digital Unwrapping

Americana

Lincoln's autograph sum book leaf

Major Collection of Lincoln Manuscripts, Letters, and Campaign Ephemera to Auction

Rare Henry David Thoreau Handwritten Manuscript from 'Cape Cod' to Auction

Broadside Announcing Martial Law During 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Auction

Sponsored

reading a book

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

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Photographs

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon with the photographer (€28,160)

Buzz Aldrin Portrait, V2, and First Earthrise Top Bonhams Moon Photo Sale

Photo-Based Work Inspired by Emily Dickinson's Garden on View

Julia Margaret Cameron's Images for Tennyson to Auction

Exhibitions

Frédéric Chopin, Valse, autograph manuscript, between 1815 and1849, recto

Works by Frédéric Chopin Including Recently Discovered Waltz at the Morgan

National Archives to Display Historic Volumes in Declaration of Independence Celebration

Phillis Wheatley's Poems and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Featured in The Afric-American Picture Gallery

Visual Art

The new wooden Tolkien statue

Tolkien Sculpture to be Unveiled Next Month

Medieval Manuscript Codes Deciphered in New Getty Exhibition

Maurice Sendak Masterpieces Lead Illustration Art Sale