- The team working on a census of early editions of Vesalius has launched a website about their project. If you can help them, please do!
- BNF Director Bruno Racine talked to The Hindu about the state of libraries and librarianship.
- John Overholt's find of an uncatalogued manuscript map of the New York-New Jersey border is featured in the NYTimes.
- As Sarah Werner pointed out on Twitter this week, the group studying that treasure trove of unopened 17th-century letters has put together a striking website about their work and the letters.
- January's Rare Book Monthly articles are up: they include the annual report on the top 500 auction prices for books and manuscripts from 2015, a writeup on the first Bergé sale, and more.
- The NYTimes reported on the NYPL's erotica collection.
Reviews
- Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle's A Just and Generous Nation; review by David Holahan in the CSM.
- Peter Daly's The Emblem in Early Modern Europe; review by Maureen Mulvihill in Appositions.
- Tom Holland's Dynasty; review by Dennis Drabelle in the WaPo.
- Mary Beard's SPQR; review by Michael D. Schaffer in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
