MINNEAPOLIS – Few collectors are as passionate or as dogged in the pursuit of their quarry as collectors of rare books. In fact, book collecting is the only pastime that has a clinically diagnosable illness – bibliomania – to describe its more obsessive hobbyists. The focus of their desire is seemingly limitless: Centuries’ worth of rare and unique tomes, manuscripts and historical documents are out there, everywhere, each with unique stories and histories. In her new book, Rare Books Uncovered, expert on rare and antiquarian books Rebecca Rego Barry recounts some of these remarkable discoveries from the world of book collecting.
