http://antiquarianbooknews.com All the news about Antiquarian and Rare Books Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:03:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hare sitting on a patterned carpet (previously unknown ink, pencil, watercolour/gouache sketch from the early 1890s) Two of the most important pets among Beatrix and Bertram Potter's childhood menagerie were Benjamin Bouncer and, later, Peter Piper. They would become immortalised as Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit. Beatrix Potter used Benjamin Bouncer as ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/beatrix-potter-rarities/ - An important dispatch from Travis: in the Brubaker case, he reports that the government has filed a Motion for Order of Forfeiture, and will be publishing information about how libraries who believe Brubaker stole from them can claim their missing stuff. So, if you work at one of these ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/links-reviews-7/ Today's Daily Mail features comments from Raymond Scott, the man arrested this week in connection with the theft of the Durham First Folio. Scott has apparently now been released from custody [on bail], as he is described as giving the interview while "sipping Dom Perignon champagne and puffing on a ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/scott-im-innocent/ There are three things necessary to build a collection. Well, actually, only one thing, but the other two are essential. First and foremost, every collection must, without fail, have some sort of unifying principle. You cannot, for instance, have a collection of children's books, or graphic novels, or books on ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/the-collectors-tools-bibliographies/ Fencing master, Achille Marozzo (1483-1553), was the most prominent and influential champion of the Dardi school of swordsmanship, which emerged in Bologna during the Renaissance. Lippo di Bartolomeo Dardi's system of single-handed sword techniques bridged the gap between the cruder medieval cutting and slashing style and the nimble and more technically ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/marozzo-swordplay/ Sotheby's London will hold a sale of English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations on 17 July. A few highlights from among the 340 lots (not counting the Spilsbury autopsy cards) include: - Some typescripts of Joyce's Finnegan's Wake (100,000-150,000 GBP) - Several original Beatrix Potter watercolors (40,000-60,000 GBP apiece) - A collection ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/auction-report-upcoming-2/ Podroban nacrt Beograda i tvrdave (1710-1720) (artist unknown) Beograd map 1695 by H van Loon ('England's Glory') A View and Representation of the Battle of Belgrade, 1717 by I Carnitham. ('England's Glory') Beograd - izgled sa savske strane - K Gebel (umetnik) E Veikselgartner (lithography) J Haler (stampar) (undated) Beograd - pogled sa ugarske strane, 1700-1710 ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/old-belgrade/ A rare first edition of ‘Emma’ sold for a record £180 000 in auction at Bonhams this week. The three-volume edition was estimated at around £70 000 but turned out to be the most profitable Jane Austen novel to be sold at auction yet. The book was one of 12 ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/emma-culate/ I’m undecided as to the name of my new bike. The list has been narrowed down to the two listed above and now I’m stuck. When I look at the bike I see a 50-ish year old eccentric Englishman who owns an antiquarian book store (think an older looking Aziraphale), ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/nigel-or-neville/ In weeding some old catalog cards from our files last week, a colleague stumbled across a wonderful description of a long-since-deaccessioned photocopy of a broadside: "1799. Dec. 10 Mexico. Governor. “ . . . Viceregal decree prohibiting the extraction of papers, documents, and books from their archives and libraries, and their sale to ... http://antiquarianbooknews.com/document-theft-not-a-new-problem/