- Over at the Houghton Library blog, "Footprints of a Bibliographical Ghost."
- An ivory cup-and-ball toy from the family of Jane Austen will be sold at Sotheby's London on Tuesday.
- The Harry Ransom Center has acquired some 180 books from the library of Gabriel García Márquez.
- From Heather Wolfe at The Collation, a look at scissor impressions left behind in early modern books.
- The NARA blog had a really fascinating post this week about how the Archives responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- The Times ran an obituary of Martin Stone this week.
- A new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland features early photographically-illustrated books relating to Scotland.
- Abby Schoolman gets the "Bright Young Booksellers" spotlight this week.
- The BPL's Collections of Distinction blog highlights a ~1460 Strasbourg bible from the BPL collections, recently conserved and digitized.
- Swann sold two uncolored plates from Audubon's Birds of America this week.
- Lew Jaffe's post this week at Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie includes a query from another bookplate collector who is seeking dated English bookplates from particular years.
- The team working on building a replica common press at RIT has posted an update on their progress.
- Janice Hansen posts about examples of "mummy printing" (it's not what you think) in the UNC Chapel Hill rare book collections.
- Rebecca Romney offers a primer (treasure map?) on collecting books about pirates.
- R. M. Healey looks back at Bishop Richard de Bury (of Philobiblon fame) at Jot101.
- The Princeton Graphic Arts blog explores a rare print showing the interior of Paris's famed Lemercier lithography firm.
- Danuta Kean reports for the Guardian on what has been a truly terrible year for library funding in the UK.
- Kurt at American Book Collecting highlights a few of the association copies of Rosenbach's Unpublishable Memoirs from his collection.
- Jane Rickard writes for the Huntington Library's blog about evidence of early readership in Ben Jonson's Works.
- The Archives Hub team has posted a basic outline of their updated interface.
Reviews
- Elaine Scarry's Naming Thy Name; review by Matthew Harrison in the LARB.
- Matthew Kirschenbaum's Track Changes; review by Tim Groenland in the Dublin Review of Books.
- Yale's new edition of the Voynich Manuscript; review by Toby Lester in the WSJ.
Upcoming Auctions
- English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations at Sotheby's London, 13 December
- Rare Books, Early Photographs, Manuscripts, Maps and Paintings at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers (Dublin), 13 December
- Printed Books, Maps, and Documents at Dominic Winter Auctioneers (Cirencester), 14 December
- Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana at Christie's New York, 14 December
- Books, Photographs and Other Works on Paper at Bloomsbury, 15 December
- Americana, Travel & Exploration, World History and Cartography at PBA Galleries, 15 December
- Important Judaica at Sotheby's New York, 15 December
- Fine and Valuable Books at Bibliopathos (Milan), 15 December
- Bibliothèque d'un amateur at Pierre Bergé & Associes (Paris), 16 December
