Auction of rare books and manuscripts
1. Exterior auction house 2. Interior of auction house with people looking at manuscripts and letters 3. Man looking at Van Gogh's letter (about the sunflower) 4.
AP Archive
Sir Isaac Newton's Pocket Knowledge: A Virtual Tour of a Morgan Library Notebook
Long before becoming one of the most celebrated figures in the history of science, Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) kept a pocket-sized memorandum book, filling ...
The Morgan Library & Museum
Dr Dermot McGuinne, The Rome irish printing type
The National Print Museum invites Dr Dermot McGuinne to share an account of the journey of detection involved in uncovering the whereabouts of the elusive ...
NationalPrintMuseum
Identifying Rare and Valuable Books
What makes a book valuable? Joshua Mann '03 and Sunday Steinkirchner '03, owners of B&B Rare Books, dive into some key characteristics of rare and ...
SUNY Geneseo
William Blake's printing process
Michael Phillips demonstrates William Blake's printing process, explaining how it relates to his work as a poet and artist. More information about William Blake's ...
The British Library
How much is my old book worth?
What factors make a book valuable? How can a book -- an object found in most households - become something of tremendous financial value? Firstly, there is ...
AbeBooks.com
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Illustrations
Learn how manuscript books were produced, illuminated, and used in medieval Europe through examples from the MRU Archives and Special Collections.
Peter Houston
Ken Sanders, Rare Books dealer - 3 Questions with Bob Evans
Veteran Salt Lake City rare books collector, Ken Sanders, sits down for 3 Questions with Bob Evans. Among other things, they talk about the increase in the ...
FOX 13 News Utah
Curated Highlights | Books, Manuscripts & Prints
With Elizabeth Frengel, Curator of Rare Books, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Masterpiece Online showcases our exhibitors' ...
Masterpiece Online
How parchment is made - Domesday - BBC Two
Subscribe and to OFFICIAL BBC YouTube https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn Stream original BBC programmes FIRST on BBC iPlayer https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ More about ...
BBC
AbeBooks Explains how to Identify a First Edition Book
Identifying a first edition is no simple matter. There are thousands of publishers and they use a large variety of methods, which are often changed, to define first ...
AbeBooks.com
Rare Books And Manuscripts (web Series) - Trailer
King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies was founded in 1983 as an educational and intellectual arm of King Faisal Foundation. The Center is an ...
KFCRIS
Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Maps - www.CuratorsEye.com - The Curator's Eye
http://curatorseye.com/page.php?C=111 We offer some of the finest antiquarian books, illuminated manuscripts, antique maps, and celestials available.
Curators Eye
A manuscript's journey from submission to publication
Once you submit your manuscript, you are in a state of perpetual anxiety, wondering if your manuscript has already been reviewed, why it is taking so long, or if ...
Editage Insights
Novice writing mistakes in my first manuscript
Most people who start writing for the first time can't do it very well, and just to demonstrate I'll show you what my writing was like when I started out. How to write a ...
Shadiversity
The Artist’s Sketchbook: A Personal View
Charles Ritchie, artist, and former associate curator, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art In this lecture held on October 27, 2019, ...
National Gallery of Art
The Richard Wilbur Manuscripts
Michael Kelly, head of Amherst's Archives and Special Collections, discusses the work of Richard Wilbur '42, who recently made official his plans to leave his ...
AmherstCollege
The Gutenberg Bible: A Virtual Tour
The Gutenberg Bible is the first monument to the invention of the printing press in western culture. The Morgan is the only institution in the world to have three ...
The Morgan Library & Museum
Treasures Old and New: Medieval Manuscripts at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book
PJ Carefoote, the head of the University of Toronto's Rare Books and Special Collections, traces the process by which one generous donor planted the seeds for ...
FisherLibrary
Drawing as an Art Form in Medieval Manuscripts
Learn more about the exhibition Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages, on view at the Met June 2 - August 23, 2009: ...
The Met
34 Paperback Print Templates for Covers & Manuscripts Using Affinity Publisher in One Archive
This video explores the basic requirements when setting up a Master File for a Print Paperback in Affinity Publisher with a focus on KDP requirements.
Robert Chalmers
Rare, Unique, Beautiful and Antiquarian Books at the Seattle Book Fair
The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair is held each October. It boasts exhibitors from the United States, Canada and Europe offering thousands of beautiful, rare and ...
AbeBooks.com
Indic Manuscripts and the Art of the Book in Medieval South Asia - Part 1
The early history of the art of the book in India owes much to the Buddhist practice of commissioning beautifully crafted books for religious merits. Once the idea ...
Indian Museum
Why Do We Collect Manuscripts?
People who are interested in history collect manuscripts because they want to know what somebody was really like. When you look at a letter, you're looking at ...
Shapell Manuscript Foundation
Bookish Talk #1 - Worm-Eaten Manuscripts
Pavel and I decided to try a different format. In this podcast series, we are not inviting any guests and just talk about some bookish topics. This time Pavel went to ...
iBookBinding
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper (Auction, 10 July)
Including a consignment of miscellaneous antiquarian books “The Property of a Collector”; Continental books and early printing; Travel, Topography and Natural ...
Forum Auctions
Sale 526:: Rare Books & Manuscripts
Senior Vice President Bruce MacMakin discusses the highlights of Sale 526 which include a second folio of Shakespeare's plays and a rare photographs signed ...
pbagalleries
The History of the Book and the Digital Word with Elaine Treharne
Curious? Stanford+Connects is coming to a city near you. Learn more and register: https://stanfordconnects.stanford.edu Elaine Treharne, a professor of English, ...
Stanford Alumni
Cracking The Shakespeare Code: Part One (Conspiracy Documentary) | Timeline
Check out our new website for more incredible history documentaries: HD and ad-free. http://bit.ly/2O6zUsK Is this the solution to the Oak Island mystery? This is ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Exhibition Tour | "Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement"
In February 2020, the Center opened an eagerly anticipated exhibition focused on the revolutionary work of three generations of young rebellious artists and ...
YaleBritishArt
"How To Turn Your Dissertation into a Book," Organized by the Graduate Writing Lab
For many scholars, the world of academic book publishing can seem quite daunting. Questions abound: how to craft a scholarly book? What is the book ...
YaleUniversity
Alchemy: History of Science #10
In fantasy stories, charlatans in fancy robes promise to turn lead into gold. But real alchemists weren't just mystical misers. They were skilled experimentalists, ...
CrashCourse
Finding Fibonacci | Keith Devlin | Talks at Google
In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber ...
Talks at Google
Why Stuart Rose’s Collection of Rare Books Matters in the Age of the Digital Surrogates
Oct. 16, 2014 Lecture by Daniel DeSimone, Folger Shakespeare Library, in University of Dayton's Sears Recital Hall. Daniel De Simone is the Eric Weinmann ...
University of Dayton
Cracking The Shakespeare Code Part 1 - Conspiracy Documentary
This is the amazing story of Petter Amundsen, a Norwegian organist, who believes he has deciphered a secret code hidden in Shakespeare's first folio.
Syndicado TV
Mini-documentary: The Romance of the Middle Ages
http://medievalromance.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/romance-explore The amazing variety of medieval romance continues to feed our imagination. The Romance of ...
Bodleian Libraries
How to Identify First Editions
Adam Blakeney, Senior Specialist in Modern Literature at Peter Harrington explains how to identify first editions. www.peterharrington.co.uk.
PeterHarringtonBooks
Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists' Books| Art Loft 807 Segment
Artists books are pieces of art in their own right, and they can take on multiple forms – sculpture, textile, painting, and text. They go beyond a sketch pad and ...
South Florida PBS
Exhibition Opening Conversation | Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
Following an introduction by Tim Barringer, the exhibition curators, catalogue contributors, and Courtney Skipton Long discuss John Ruskin and why he matters ...
YaleBritishArt
The Lost Art of Reading
Can you imagine getting a university education without books? While that may have happened some time ago in disciplines such as computer science or ...
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Publish Your Book (or How to Meet the Challenges of the New Publishing Environment)
Office of Faculty Development & Diversity This panel on book publishing engaged faculty members from across the University in a discussion with publishing ...
Harvard University
Stephen Greenblatt on Lucretius and his intolerable ideas
The Villa Council Presents: Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas A lecture presented by Stephen Greenblatt How does one take in concepts that are ...
Getty Museum
