Rare Book of the Week

This week's entry is a collection of more than 170 autograph letters written by the American former CIA counterintelligence officer Alrich Ames found guilty of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Uni

This week's Rare Book of the Week is a 14th century portable Magna Carta on vellum in Latin and Anglo-Norman French which comes to auction on July 9 at Christie

Oxford Libararies Architecture by Geoffrey Tyack with photography by Dan Paton is not technically rare since it's due to be published later this week, but it is a marvellous volume of inte

This week's Rare Book of the Week is a presentation copy of Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Pilote de guerre inscribed to husband and wife scriptwriters Dido Freire and Jean Renoir.

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine is Ireland’s oldest and largest container for a sacred book and has gone on display for the first time after nearly two years of restoration work.

Our new Rare Book of the Week is Albert Maumené's Les Abres Nains Japonais, the first book ever published in the West about

This week's focus is on the Horae beatae marie secundum usum curie romane better known as the Black Book of Hours which has been awarded conservation funding from the the

Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese has reveal

An important archive of Alan Turing's unpublished Second World War papers has

This week's Rare Book of the Week is copy of the first Astronomer Royal