The best site, however, is missing. It’s a real site…the premises of your local used/antiquarian bookseller.

Sale 2214 Lot 99

EUTROPIUS, FLAVIUS. [Breviarium historiae Romanae.] manuscript in latin, written in humanistic and semi-Gothic book hands by at least 2 scribes, 29-32 lines, brown and black inks, on vellum (leaves 1-10) and laid paper with basilisk watermark (11-end). Initials in blue and red. 55 leaves, complete. 235×165 mm, contemporary vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; some dampstaining and minor marginal worming. Italy, later 15th century Estimate $800-1,200

Swann Galleries auction of Early Printed Books & Manuscripts from the Inventory of the late Lawrence Feinberg, a papyrologist and specialist in ancient manuscripts turned antiquarian bookseller. Diverse assortment includes manuscripts dating back as far as the 9th century, medical and scientific books, bibliographies and reference works, and English and French auction catalogues from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Contact Person: Tobias Abeloff tabeloff@swanngalleries.com

Incoming search terms:

• basilisk watermark
• catalogue swanngalleries
• gothic book
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…get

set

go:

When I asked renowned Bodley Head collector Mark Samuels Lasner (stay tuned for the interview) recently which American publishers he thought most closely matched John Lane’s achievement, he cited Day and Copeland, and Stone and Kimball.

I’m in Cape Cod right now visiting and reviewing used

bookstores

for the Book Hunter Press; found this

beautiful

book

from S&K:

A company that put Chicago

on the publishing map.

Schoyen Collection

Dropped in on James Gray at James & Devon Gray Booksellers yesterday afternoon. He showed me a copy of a Book of Hours in his possession…breathtaking proof that the clergy of the time shared my view that God can be found in flowers.

By this definition, blogging is art. (via Daniel Pritchard)

You won’t find better proof that a ‘God’ exists

than

in the

face

of

a

flow-

er

ALEXANDRA MANZANO/THE OREGONIAN

Dish

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Near the nation’s capital? Lucky you. Argosy Books is celebrating an anniversary (26th if memory serves correct). All books in the store are 50% off. That’s half off on hard to find, out of print, used, and rare books. Week of May 1, 2010. Check it out: 209 Dalhousie Street

Incoming search terms:

• john hughes of ottawa
• john hughes ottawa dalhousie argosy