What if the pages of an old book could tell us who touched them, what medicines they made, and even how their bodies ...

T. Kimball Brooker has amassed more than 1,000 books over the past 60 years, but now he is ready to hand them on to someone new. The scholar is auctioning off his comprehensive collection of ...

Brooker began collecting in 1959 in Paris and has been assembling his library ever since. Sotheby's For the last six decades, American bibliophile T. Kimball Brooker has been collecting rare ...

Bibliotheca Brookeriana, one of the world’s most significant collections of rare books, will see its 1,600 titles sold by Sotheby's in the next two years, as announced by the auction house today ...

A rare second edition of a classic textbook on the human form by the Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius recently soared past its $1.2 million high estimate to sell for $2.2 million in an online ...

Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport has a 43-year-old used bookstore. It’s a hub for bibliophiles who need more of the library and books. The bookstore serves as a great pass time for ...

A rare and extensive library of Renaissance-era books amassed by T. Kimball Brooker, a Chicago collector of early printed works and president of Barbara Oil Co., is expected to achieve more than US$25 ...

When Martin Luther chose the medium of print to distribute and popularize his ideas after 1517, the Lutheran message spread like wildfire through Europe. It has been estimated that the total print run ...

The full extent of the large body of Latin literature produced by Scots in the early modern period has long eluded scholars. However, thanks to a growing range of research in this field, and ...