In search of the world’s most valuable books, letters and laws
26 May, 2022
2022/5/26 14:51:21 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
2022/5/26 14:51:21 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
A few Tolkien mentions in the article.
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/h ... le-books-letters-and-laws
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/h ... le-books-letters-and-laws
For evidence of its importance, consider this: the last time an original Magna Carta came up for sale, in 2007, it sold for over $21 million (£10.5 million).
So I take it there is an original Magna Carta in someone's private collection out there?
It is owned by David Rubenstein, but still on display at the National Archives (in the David Rubenstein Gallery).
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mag ... ion-idUSN1854840520071219
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/magna-carta
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mag ... ion-idUSN1854840520071219
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/magna-carta
Mr. Underhill wrote:
For evidence of its importance, consider this: the last time an original Magna Carta came up for sale, in 2007, it sold for over $21 million (£10.5 million).
So I take it there is an original Magna Carta in someone's private collection out there?
It was bought by David Rubenstein, one of the founders of the Carlyle Group. It was already in residence at the National Archive in Washington until the owner decided to sell it. He (Rubenstein) wanted to see it remain there for the public to see.
Darwin's notebooks were returned to Cambridge in March this year
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/TreeOfLife
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/TreeOfLife
garm wrote:
Darwin's notebooks were returned to Cambridge in March this year
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/TreeOfLife
This is incredible. Those notebooks are so beautiful and I think I will have to arrange avisit to the city of my birth to see them.
To catch a rare-book thief
https://www.ft.com/content/e9deeed2-9e5a-4225-bc8e-ef030e530805
From high-tech heists to antiquarian crime rings, this literary underworld would make a novel of its own
https://www.ft.com/content/e9deeed2-9e5a-4225-bc8e-ef030e530805
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