New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

The Muses Library (1737): first edition of the first English poetical miscellany edited by a woman, the actress and playwright Elizabeth Cooper, who collaborated with the antiquary William Oldys on the historical notes. Opening before the Norman invasion, with a surprisingly lyrical land conveyance by Edward the Confessor, the anthology offers a fluid survey of changing English poetic styles from Chaucer to Spenser to Shakespeare, almost all the old valuable Poetry extant. ... #Repost @honeyandwaxbks . . #NYIABF #honeyandwaxbooks #themuseslibrary #elizabethcooper #williamoldys #poetry #englishpoetry #miscellany #anthology #chaucer #spenser #shakespeare #rarebooks #bookstagram

#Repost Simon Beattie: Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera Bronze-varnish paper was made in Augsburg between about 1690 and the mid 1730s, after it was eclipsed in popularity by brocade paper. Here's one on a copy of Bogatzky, Güldnes Schatz-Kästlein der Kinder Gottes (Halle, 1745). #BronzeVarnishWeek

Collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong, who have been building a collection of international Surrealist literature since the 1960s, donated the trove to the Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. https://hyperallergic.com//museum-boijmans-gifted-surreal/

Lucas Jansz Waghenaer was a navigator and the author of the Spieghel der zeevaerdt, the first pilot guide. He spent his early career as a naval officer between 1550 and 1579, interacting with other sailors and gaining vital experience for his later work. He then worked as a duties collector in Enkhuizen, before beginning to work on a project to combine accurate sailing directions with detailed maps. Sailors at the time generally relied on small books called rutters, which wer...e often handwritten, or featured crude woodcut maps. They were wary of printed guides, as they could not be updated or personalised as easily as a manuscript and were thought to be less practical. Waghenaer aimed to change this attitude, and chose to do so by publishing his work as a large folio (rather than the traditional oblong), with copper engraved maps and typeset text. #Repost @crouchrarebooks This spectacular example of the first Latin edition of the earliest printed sea atlas is full of great #seamonsters! First published in Dutch in 1583-1584 as Spieghel der Zeevaerdt, the over-sized map of Europe is in the first state, showing a circular Iceland, all other maps in Koeman state b. WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon. Speculum nauticum super navigatione maris occidentalis pars prima [-pars altera]. Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius for Luca Johannes Aurigarius, 1586. #mapmonstermonday #mapmonsters #rarebooks #antiquebooks #rareatlases #atlas #seaatlas #antiques #16thcentury #handcoloured #redmorocco #NYIABF #crouchrarebooks #danielcrouchrarebooks #lucasjanszoon #waghenaer

Today is #IndependentBookstoreDay! Treat your shelf to a new purchase! What is your favorite go-to independent bookstore? . Image: Lux Mentis Booksellers . #indiebookstoreday #treatyourshelf #indiebookstores #buybooks #buylocal #NYIABF #antiquarianbookfair #antiquarianbooks #antiquebooks #rarebooks #bibliophile #bookcollecting #bookseller

A day late, but every day is National Book Lovers Day over here! . . . #nationalbookloversday #NYIABF #antiquarianbookfair #antiquarianbooks #antiquebooks #rarebooks #bibliophile #bookcollecting #bookseller @ Park Avenue Armory

Happy World Book Day! What books are keeping you company these days? . . . #worldbookday #NYIABF20 #NYIABF #antiquarianbookfair #antiquarianbooks #antiquebooks #rarebooks #bibliophile #bookcollecting #bookseller

"NYC’s Premier Antiquarian Book Fair Turns A Page: Event Marks 60th Year Milestone" Antiques And The Arts Weekly round-up of highlights from the 2020 #NYIABF, click to read! https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/nycs-premier-antiquaria/

#NYIABF featured in the Monocle's Weekend Edition: "Inside the Park Avenue Armory, an 1861 gothic-revival building in New York’s refined Upper East Side, people are closely scrutinising display cases and carefully leafing through aged books." https://monocle.com/minute/2020/03/15/for-old-tomes-sake/#7

Thank you to all of all our exhibitors, visitors, and fellow bibliophiles who joined us for the 2020 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair! Use the hashtag #NYIABF20 to share your favorite discoveries of the fair.

Courtesy of @librairiecamillesourget,(Booth B15), this work by Pablo PIcasso, Eaux-fortes originales pour des textes de Buffon. A handsome set of 63 original etchings by Picasso, one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese paper. Between 1936 and 1942, Pablo Picasso created this set of etchings to illustrate a natural history book by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle. This beautifully decorated hand-bound book also inc...ludes a set of proof plates and the supplementary etching La Puce. Swipe right for La chèvre from the suite

On view at Livres anciens Ariane Adeline, Booth B24, two programs published and distributed on the occasion of festivities launched for the engagement of Gustaf Oscar Ludvig Nobel et de Caroline-Anna-Eugenie Heyer Germany, Köln, Kunstdruckerei J.P.Bachem, [29 April 1910]. The program contains numerous references to tennis, the couple’s favored sport, to texts and songs, to family references and is illustrated by a series of reproductions of paintings by Paula Monjé (1849-191...9) painter from Düsseldorf. In German, French and Swedish; wood structure; printed on glazed paper. These two festive programs are in the form of tennis rackets, the printed part (76 pp) occupying the head of the racket (220 x 165 mm), with on the cover Zweiter und unwiderruflich letzter Polterabend im Hause Heyer, and below on a rectangular label the names of the guests: Frau C. Walther and Herr C. Walther. Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1951) was the son of Ludvig Immanuel Nobel (Stockholm, 1831-died in Cannes, 1888), a Russian oil tycoon, founder of Branobel based in Baku in present-day Azebaijan and one of the richest and most powerful men in Russia at the time. He was the nephew of Alfred Nobel.

#NYIABF20 highlight from Michael Laird Rare Books #Repost @lairdrarebooks This is by far one of our favorite pieces we are exhibiting: the ONLY surviving visual record of the Frescoes in the Casino Felice in the Villa Peretti Montalto, Rome, built for Sixtus V by famed Roman architect Domenico Fontana. Featuring 32 watercolors by Annibali Angelini.... Come see us in B-31. #rarebooks #illustrations #architecture #NYIABF

"How a Rare Pointe Shoe Landed at New York’s Antiquarian Book Fair" A pointe shoe, signed by prima ballerina assoluta Margot Fonteyn, famed principal of the Royal Ballet is on view in Booth E22 with Tamino Autographs - Performing Arts & Historical Figures Autographs Read more about what else makes this piece so unique on ALL ARTS. https://allarts.org//pointe-shoe-margot-fonteyn-rudolf-nu/

#NYIABF in Antiques And The Arts Weekly