- This week's Sotheby's sale of a remarkable collection of Hamilton manuscripts garnered a NYTimes report and a Fine Books Blog post by Rebecca Rego Barry.
- The BPL has digitized their copy of Moxon's Mechanick Exercises (1683).
- Over at Literary Hub, Rebecca Rego Barry previewed the sale of some important pieces of Doubleday publishing history at Doyle this week.
- A "Book History Unbound" section has been added to the SHARP website, as a space for Book History contributors to post additional materials.
- ILAB released a warning this week about a book circulating with a forged Darwin inscription.
- The California International Antiquarian Book Fair celebrates fifty years this February; I'm looking forward to attending for the first time!
- Early American bookplates are the order of the day on the Princeton Graphic Arts Collection blog.
- A new digital collation tool is now available for download.
- Bruce Springsteen's archive is going to Monmouth University.
- The Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin Madison will host what looks like a fascinating conference in September, "BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities." See the page for the call for papers, &c.
- The new journal Libraries: Culture, History, and Society is now accepting submissions for the second issue.
- Nancy Campbell writes on the "Beauty of Books" for the TLS.
- On the OUP blog, James Cortada asks how map reading has changed over the past several centuries.
- A new podcast from AAS features interviews with AAS research fellows.
- A Watertown, NY woman was arrested after attempting to steal rare books from the Flower Public Library in Watertown.
- From Michiko Kakutani, "Obama's Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books," as well as the transcript of the interview for the piece.
Reviews
- A new translation of Dumas' The Red Sphinx; review by Michael Dirda in the WaPo.
- Ruth Franklin's Shirley Jackson and Miles Hyman's recent graphic adaptation of "The Lottery"; review by Emilie Bickerton in the TLS.
- Kevin Dann's Expect Great Things; review by John Kaag in the NYTimes.
Upcoming Auctions
- Alexander Hamilton: An Important Family Archive of Letters and Manuscripts at Sotheby's New York, 18 January
- Books, Art and Ephemera: Whaling, Horror, 16th Century, &c. at National Book Auctions, 21 January
