World Book Capital: Whose party is this anyway?
Athens has been World Book Capital for just over three months. After the grand opening at the Acropolis Museum on April 23 you might think, or hope, that book e...
Material evidence of a donation to Uppsala University in 1722
A report in the Amsterdamsche Courant of 5 November 1722 mentions a donation of books by the English Lord Carteret to the Academy of Uppsala. The question that ...
Historia Naturalis Brasiliae copy census: final call (Updated)
Historia Naturalis Brasiliae is the first scientific work on the natural history of Brasil, published in 1648. It was the authoritative text on the subject for ...