The Allure of Old Books ( & maps )

Posted on January 29, 2014 by
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Painting courtesy of Bonnie Butler @ http://www.bonniebutlerart.com

The Peculiar Underworld of Rare-Book Thieves

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The Allure of the Map

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What is the oldest book in the world?

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The Library of Congress by the numbers.

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What happens when Oxford’s Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Vaticana collude?

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