Skip to main content
Subscribe to our e-letter
Webform
For book news, special columns, auction reports, events, and more.
News
Magazine
Print Issues
Catalogues Received
Auction Guide
Download Center
Store
Resource Guide
Place a Listing
See the Guide
Subscribe
Print Edition
Free E-letter
Calendar
Contact Us
Advertising Information
British Longitude Act
<i>Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude</i> Opens at the Folger Library
March 18, 2015
Washington, DC— For centuries, longitude (east-west position) was a matter of life and death at sea. Ships that went off course had no way to re-discover their longitude.
Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare
Heartwood Books and Art
4801 N. Federal Hwy, Suite 103B
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
(954) 565-8020
Book Dealer: Book Arts
Booklyn, Inc.
140 58th Street, Building B, 7-G
Brooklyn, NY 11220
(917) 406-1038
Special Collections
Château de Balsac - Livres Trésors - Books & Treasures
50, Allée du Château, Balsac Bourg
Druelle-Balsac, Aveyron 12510
France
(+33) (0)782899888
An elegant chateau with a private library and custom tours for your next visit to
(more)
Autograph Dealer
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
6 Waterford Way
Syosset, NY 11791
(516) 922-2192
RARE MUSIC- and DANCE-RELATED MATERIAL, 15th-21st centuries, including autograph
(more)
Subscribe to the Magazine
Buy the Current Issue
Buy Back Issues
By Nicholas Basbanes