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The newly opened, New York Bloomsbury Auction House, will be holding an Americana sale on Wednesday 31st October.Among the large collection of important works of Americana, highlights include a vellum manuscript signed by the Colonial Governor of New Amsterdam “C. W. Van Twiller,” 6 June 1636, whic

Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic![Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet - III, i]Between the 16th and 18th centuries swordplay experienced an evolution in technology and technique. The heavier broadswords w

“When people envision Jerusalem, very often what they envision is Jerusalem painted by David Roberts.”Out of the romance of napoleon’s ill-fated 198 adventure in Egypt and Lord Byron’s Eastern travels, memorialized in his exotic poetry came a fascination for the Near E

‘Catalogus Archiepiscoporum Gnesnensium Vitae Episcoporum Cracoviensium’ (Catalogue of the Archbishops of Gniezno and Lives of the Bishops of Cracow) is available at the National Digital Library of Poland (note the six-dotted thumbnail icon top left of the frame). The images above were posted to wi

Loome’s Antiquarian Booksellers in Stillwater, Minnesota is closing at the end of the year. Stillwater sits on the fabulous St. Croix, just Northeast of St. Paul, and it has been known as America’s Booktown.

VietNamNet Bridge - A farm family in the central province of Thanh Hoa is effectively preserving more than 400 ancient books with medicinal herbs.