Eureka! Secret book by Archimedes discovered
Valerie Merians
In what can only be called an incredible feat of conservation technology, a 1,000 year old text by Archimedes is now on view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.… Read more »
In what can only be called an incredible feat of conservation technology, a 1,000 year old text by Archimedes is now on view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.… Read more »
In 1886 $85,000 dollars was allocated by the United States Senate for procurement of wrapping-twine. The reasons for such a purchase are yet uncertain, but historians will now have a… Read more »
Here’s a testament to the serendipity of the internet: Tuesday, MobyLives ran a story about a book brought to an antiques appraiser in Sandy, Utah that turned out to be… Read more »
A new cache of Walt Whitman’s writing — literally, his handwriting — has been discovered in the National Archive. According to a report in the Washington Post, the National Archive… Read more »
A fund-raiser for the Sandy Museum, in Sandy, Utah turned up something thoroughly unexpected. According to a Fox 13 report, a man brought in a book that turned out to… Read more »
A book designer is responsible for every aspect of the way a book looks and feels, from the jacket art and title page down to the page numbers and line… Read more »
Put your wallet away. The holiday gift you were planning for that bird-watching someone in your life, has just been sold — for $11.5 million dollars, no less, a record… Read more »
“It’s just really, really gotten to me…I just can’t sleep at night,” Graham Arader, New York rare-book dealer and a leading bidder for a copy of James Audubon’s Birds of America,… 2 / Read more »
The BBC reports that, “A first edition of the novel Wuthering Heights formerly owned by a Norfolk parson has been sold at auction for £163,250.” There was no dithering. The… Read more »
We’ve been critical at times of large scale digitalization projects like the ongoing “last library” project being constructed by Google in preparation for their eventual release of Google Editions. We’ve… 2 / Read more »