Rare Books

Human history is marked by many signposts chronicling our advancement, our follies, our triumphs and our tragedies. The human imagination is a boundless garden, one whose fertile soil has produced so many rich and sustaining fruits of human intellectual and creative ingenuity; from music to the visual arts, from the stage to the screen. And few treasures documenting the human journey in this life can compare to the glories found on the printed page: there’s a reason the adage ‘The book was better’ emerged with the advent of cinema. Thanks in no small measure to Johannes Gutenberg ingenuity some six hundred years ago, humanity’s inky adventures, from dense tomes to breezy comic books, have rolled off the presses and passed into the populace for cognitive nourishment and sometimes a mental sedative.