ANNO Leilões
Espaço Almanaque 23, Rua da Ramada, n.º 52, 4810-445 Guimarães, Portugal
ANNO began operating in 2023, bringing together a team of specialists and filling a need in the north of Portugal for an auctioneer with expertise in antique and rare books. ANNO operates exclusively online, but lots can be viewed in our shop by appointment.
ANNO’s head office is in the centre of Guimarães, a World Heritage city with several libraries and bookshops of reference for the world of antiquarian books. ANNO established itself as a neighbour to all of them in front of the Torre da Alfândega, an imposing medieval building that became a symbolic place when the phrase ‘Portugal was born here’ was affixed to it in the 1970s. A year later, it moved to the Couros area, recently added to the World Heritage UNESCO-listed Historical Centre, where animal skins have been processed since Roman times: the same skins used to bind books.
Our identity, designed by Paulo Alegria, uses characters that refer to the inscriptions of the Roman lapidary, a reference to the Western literary canon, universal history and the recovery of the memory of classical antiquity with the first presses during the Renaissance. Roboto, on the other hand, was developed specifically for reading on screens by Google between 2011 and 2017, with a design by Christian Robertson. In this way, our image combines the lost tradition of the ages with the screens of our time.
ANNO is a reference to the year of publication of each book, often correct, sometimes invented. The dating of works in Latin is a centuries-old tradition that is still being practised.
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