ILAB announces the winners of the
19th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography
2026 Submissions
2026 1ST PRIZE:
Alain Riffaud, Catalogue Molière: 1660–1673 (Le Mans: Matière à Dire, 2025).
2026 2ND PRIZE:
Manuel Suárez Rivera, La alhaja más preciosa:
Historia de la Biblioteca de la Real Universidad de México (1761–1815) (Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, 2022).
2026 3RD PRIZE:
Heidrun Lange-Krach, Das Neue Gebetbuch Kaiser Maximilians I. in seiner Entstehung (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2026).
SPECIAL PRIZE – PRESERVATION
OF CULTURAL HERITAGE:
Oleksandr Okhrimenko and Fr Methodius (Stanislav) Voloshchenko, Apostolus Christinopolitanus (Kyiv: Horobets Publishing House, 2023).
SPECIAL PRIZE - ASIAN SUBMISSION:
Koichi Yukishima, The Birth of Bibliography:
Study of Conrad Gesner’s Bibliotheca universalis [Japanese] (Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2022).
SPECIAL PRIZE – CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICAN SUBMISSION:
Agnes Gehbald, A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
HONORABLE MENTION:
Mark E. Andrews, The Science and Engineering of Water: An Illustrated Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts on Italian Hydraulics, 1500–1800 (Toronto: A.E. Publications, 2022); The Science and Engineering of Materials: A Theatre of Machine Books, 1472–1800 (Toronto: A.E. Publications, 2023); The Science and Engineering of Water: An Illustrated Catalogue of
Books and Manuscripts on Hydraulics North of the
Alps and around the Globe, 1400–1800 (Toronto:
A.E. Publications, 2024); The Photographer at Work: Documenting Civil Engineering 1853–1913
(Toronto: A.E. Publications, 2025)
Read more: >> ALAIN RIFFAUD WINS 19TH ILAB BRESLAUER PRIZE FOR BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR LANDMARK MOLIÈRE CATALOGUE
The World's Leading Prize honouring original contributions to the field of bibliography and book history
The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography is sponsored by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers with the generous support of the B. H. Breslauer Foundation. The 20th edition of the prize will be awarded in 2030.
Further information about submissions for the 2030 Prize will be published here in due course.
