And it took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to reunite the lost books — some printed decades before Shakespeare penned his first play ...
Rare and valuable manuscripts, including an original edition of Alf Laila wa Laila, are up for sale at the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2024. And the total price tag? Up to Dh2.5 million.
Rare and valuable manuscripts, including an original edition of 'Alf Laila wa Laila', are up for sale at the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2024. The total price tag is up to Dh2.5 million.
An extremely rare first edition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous political manual “The Prince” is going up for auction, with an expected sale price of up to $375,000.
The same November sale at Rare Book Auctions, in Lichfield, Staffs., also includes three paperback first editions of Philosopher’s Stone. Two are guided at £6,000-£8,000 while a third has an ...