Word: antiquarian
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...Divine Comedy. Its some 450 richly illustrated pages, dating from the 1350s, are bound and wrapped in red silk. Though the book rarely goes on display, Society staff insist the medieval text is in excellent condition. It came to Mumbai in the possession of a 19th century British antiquarian grandee, the imperially named Mountstuart Elphinstone, and has stayed in the city ever since despite numerous attempts by the Italian government to repatriate it. In the 1930s, rumor has it, dictator Benito Mussolini was keen to buff his fascist pedigree by retrieving the epic and offered the Society one million pounds...
Written like a classic crime story, this true-life tale kicks off with a botched robbery and police chase. Authorities raid the villa of a Munich-based antiquarian to discover a collection of 4th century B.C. vases soaking off encrustations - and traces of theft - in a 1.5-m-deep swimming pool full of water and caustic chemicals. As the plot thickens, a cast of crooked art dealers, shady collectors and formidable art institutions are implicated in an investigation that steers Italy's Art Squad to a Geneva warehouse filled with looted national treasures. The warehouse's owner? Giacomo Medici, Italy...
They were last seen on Nov. 12, at an antiquarian book fair held in Hamburg, Germany, where they were exhibited in a private booth by John W. Wronoski, the owner of Lame Duck Books...
Roll discovered that the manuscripts were missing on Nov. 16, while the store was hosting an evening reception for booksellers in town for the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. Roll had brought out the Borges collection in order to display the manuscripts to visitors, but found that the two stories were not in their usual place...
Before Harvard Yale, there were books aplenty—and no, it wasn’t the pre-Turkey Day cram, but rather the 30th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Nov. 17 at the Hynes Convention Center. Exhibitors hailed from exotic locales like the Netherlands, London, and Paris, not to mention the countless collectors who flocked to this historic literary mecca to browse and collect rare volumes. There was something for every bibliophile, with prices ranging from ten dollars to hundreds of thousands. In addition to books, items available included diaries, letters, sketches, and even a visa application filled...