WELCOME TO PARIS!
41st ILAB Congress and 25th International Antiquarian Book Fair

SLAM and ILAB are proud and pleased to announce that the 41st ILAB Congress will run in Paris from the 13th to 16th April, 2014, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of SLAM. The Paris Congress will immediately follow the International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Grand Palais scheduled from 10th to 13th of April 2014. The very special Congress Program will certainly attract numerous visitors from all over the world who are looking forward to meeting new colleagues and welcoming old friends.

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AND THE WINNER IS ... JAMES BOND!

The 16th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography has been awarded to Jon Gilbert for his outstanding and superb work: Ian Fleming. The Bibliography, published by Queen Anne Press in 2012.

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Latest news about the Girolamini Thefts

More than a year has passed since the discovery of the thefts and forgeries of books from the Girolamini Library. According to the judges, the director of the Library, Marino Massimo De Caro was primarily responsible for the thefts. He was arrested and convicted to seven years in prison in the first of several trials that he will have to face. This trial also involved his accomplices. ILAB is very concerned about two major issues. Read more!

Wanted! Internships for Three Students from Russia and Scotland

A global "ILAB School" without borders: The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers offers internships to students and beginners in the rare book trade who wish to widen their knowledge through practical learning and to plug into the worldwide network of antiquarian bookselling. Right now ILAB is looking for three internships. Click here to find out more details.

ILAB Patrons of Honour

ILAB is very proud to present Murray G. Hall, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Sir David Attenborough, Barry Humphries, René Fayt, Michael Knoche, Reiner Speck, Jay and Jean Kislak and Sid Lapidus as Patrons of Honour:

"Their commitment to the preservation of printed culture makes them our clients, our audience, and our inspiration, and very often all three. The paths that they have followed and the collections that they have formed are likely to have an extraordinary influence on the understanding of human culture for future generations."

Siena - ILAB Presidents' Meeting

“Siena is like a bit of Venice, without the water”, Charles Dickens wrote in his “Pictures from Italy” (1846). The beautiful Tuscan city and its magnificent atmosphere provided the ideal background for the ILAB President’s Meeting 2013 that gave interesting insights into recent developments of the rare book business along with fruitful and controversial discussions about the future of the trade. Read more about it and see the pictures!

ILAB Booksellers on Video

"A wonderful snapshot of the rich history of both the ABAA and the rare book trade" - ILAB is proud to present the video archive project by Michael Ginsberg and Taylor Bowie. Recently added: interviews with two amazing ladies: Marguerite Goldschmidt and Florence Shay.

“Book collecting is and almost always has been a vibrant, exciting and engaging pastime"

"It’s our job to make others understand that.” An interview with ILAB President Tom Congalton about his career, his favourite books, Between the Covers, collecting, ILAB and the future of the trade. Read it!

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Book FairsRare Books - Next Fairs

  • 28th Antiquaria Ludwigsburg

    23 Jan 2014 - 25 Jan 2014

    28th Antiquaria Ludwigsburg

    The 28th Antiquaria Ludwigsburg will start one day before the Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair and can be reached within 10 minutes from Stuttgart. Over 50 exhibitors offer beautiful and...

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    53rd Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair (VDA)

    24 Jan 2014 - 26 Jan 2014

    53rd Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair (VDA)

    The first event of the bibliophile year: For more than 50 years the Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair attracts dealers and collectors from all over the world to the elegant "Kunstverein" in the...

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Rare Book Gallery

  • [Opera, in Greek, edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas.]

    HOMER

    Bookseller: Peter Harrington

    [Opera, in Greek, edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas.]
    Florence: Demetrius Damilas [in the shop of the Printer of Vergilius (C 6061)] for Bernardo and Nero De' Nerli and Giovanni Acciaiuoli, 9 December... More

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    Price: 282975.00 USD

  • Bible. Eaux-fortes originales de Marc CHAGALL. Complete in 2 volumes

    (Chagall, Marc: 1887-1985)

    Bookseller: Gemini Fine Books & Arts, Ltd.

    Bible. Eaux-fortes originales de Marc CHAGALL. Complete in 2 volumes
    Paris: Teriade Editeur, 1956, first Chagall edition, two volumes, number 246 of 275 exemplars (total edition 295), printed on Montval paper, signed... More

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    Price: 125000.00 USD

  • LABYRINTHO DE COMERCIO TERRESTRE Y NAVAL. DONDE BREVE Y COMENDIOSAMENTE SE...

    Hevia y Bola? Juan de:

    Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana

    LABYRINTHO DE COMERCIO TERRESTRE Y NAVAL. DONDE BREVE Y COMENDIOSAMENTE SE TRATA DA LA MERCANCIA Y CONTRATACION DE TIERRA Y MAR
    Lima: Francisco del Canto, 1617.. [16],799,[45]pp. Small quarto. Later vellum with pigskin ties, manuscript title on spine, brand on top edge.... More

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    Price: 90000.00 USD

  • THE FEDERALIST: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN IN FAVOR OF THE NEW...

    Hamilton, Alexander; James Madison; and John Jay:

    Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana

    THE FEDERALIST: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN IN FAVOR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION, AS AGREED UPON BY THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, SEPTEMBER 17, 1787
    New York: Printed and sold by John and Andrew M'Lean, 1788.. Two volumes bound in one. vi,227; vi,384pp. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, spine with plain... More

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    Price: 185000.00 USD

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  • Bernard M. Rosenthal, Dictionary of Abbreviations

    “German and Italian antiquarian booksellers and auctioneers are very fond of using abbreviations in their catalogs, sometimes on a rather lavish scale. This enables them to convey a large amount of information in a relatively short space, but readers not completely fluent in those languages are likely to be left somewhat bewildered, even discouraged, by strings of vowels and consonants occurring either singly or in unfamiliar combinations in the midst of what would otherwise be a fairly comprehensible text. For them, this little dictionary, the first one of its kind, I think, may come in handy. Each abbreviation is followed by the full resolution of the German and Italian word and by its English translation, in most cases with one or more examples illustrating the context and the combinations in which the abbreviation is most likely to occur.”

    Bernard M. Rosenthal, A Dictionary of Abbreviations Commonly Used by German and Italian Antiquarian Booksellers and Auctioneers

    Bernard M. Rosenthal’s Dictionary was published by the League in 1993. All ILAB publications are obtainable from ILAB booksellers, from the offices of the national associations, or from our agent, Scott Brinded, 17 Greenbanks, Lyminge, CT18 8HG, Great Britain, Tel. (01303) 86 22 58, Fax (01303) 86 26 60

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  • Bibliographies - Numerals

    Online: Roman numerals  - Roman numeral year dates - Roman numerals - Ecclesiastical Calendar - Shin Hanga Date Translation 

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  • I bet you can't become the biggest selling female author in the World. Or, Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    I bet you can't become the biggest selling female author in the World. Or, Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Agatha Christie apparently wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles as the result of a bet. The loser of this bet, her sister, thought  that  Christie couldn't write a crime detective story that kept the reader guessing the identity of the murderer until the end, despite knowing everything that the Detective knew throughout. She not only lost the bet in a spectacular fashion but in the process kick started the career of the biggest selling female author the world has known. Shakespeare beats Christie's 3 - 4 billion estimated books sold, but he does have 300 years head start by dying in 1616. Christie wrote "Styles" in 1916.

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  • Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance

    Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance

    What is really „rare“? Maria Popova asks the question which has always been essential for antiquarian booksellers, and which becomes more and more essential in our fully digitalized world where works are accessible by Google Books or The Library Archive which were buried in archives for centuries. In former times the antiquarian bookseller very often was the only one who brought these rare treasures to light. What now?

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  • Book Scouting in Japan - Introduction: The Back Story

    Book Scouting in Japan - Introduction: The Back Story

    Rare book dealer and photography specialist Harper Levine travels through Japan with photographer John Gossage where Harper was welcomed at the airport as the “best book dealer (also best blogger) from East Hampton”. Bibliophiles may follow his book scouting traces in Tokyo reading his fabulous blog.

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  • Antiquarian

    Antiquarian

    “A mere antiquarian is a rugged being” opined Dr Johnson, succinctly and meaningfully, to Boswell in 1778.  What’s in a name? – and what of the decidedly un-mere antiquarian bookseller?

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