Fold-up geometrical illustrations in the first English edition of Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry,’ published London, 1570. John Dee wrote a mathematical preface to the book. (© Royal College of ...

The Library of Lost Books project is trying to collect items looted from the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, known as the Hochschule. It was also home to one of the world’s largest and ...

The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week. By Catherine ...

A woman walks into her local library and hands the librarian a book. He takes it gingerly, seeing that the book is old. He wonders if the woman who is returning it has been careless with the volume.

There’s nothing like getting lost in a good book, but one reader in Finland seems to have taken that to an extreme. Staff at a public library in Helsinki were rather surprised when a copy of Arthur ...

A long-lost library book has been reunited with its owner. “The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley,” who was a British illustrator and author, was first added to the Worcester Public Library’s collection ...

On her first day volunteering at a public library in Sterling Heights, Michigan, Helen Poniatowski was flipping through a donated book when something unusual caught her eye: a timeworn wedding photo ...