- Catherine Allgor has been appointed the next president of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
- David Whitesell posts at Notes from Under Grounds about a major new acquisition.
- The Junto has a Q&A with David Gary of the American Philosophical Society as part of their "Where Historians Work" series.
- Tess Goodman writes for JHIBlog on "The Idea of the Souvenir: Mauchline Ware."
- Common-place has a new issue up, with thirteen emerging scholars introducing pre-1800 American texts.
- Also at JHIBlog, Yitzchak Schwartz has a review of this year's Manfred R. Lehman Workshop on the History of the Hebrew Book in "Towards a History of Hebrew Book Collecting."
- There's a great deal in the July Rare Book Monthly: Bruce McKinney on quite an interesting Revolutionary War collection, Thibaut Ehrengardt on an "untouched collection" in Belgium, and Eric Caren on the 15 June Christie's sale of important items from his collection.
- Over at Past is Present, "The Practice of Everyday Cataloging: 'Blacks as Authors' and the Early American Bibliographic Record."
- Mary Beard's "Learning to be a librarian" made me laugh out loud at least twice.
- Paul Grondahl reports on a recent eBay find of an Albany County judicial ledger; the story has a connection to the Daniel Lorello archives thefts from several years ago.
- The Sion College Library Provenance Project has been relaunched.
- APHA is now "accepting short articles on lesser known aspects of the history of printing and related arts and crafts, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing" for publication on the APHA website.
Reviews
- Charlie English's The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu; review by William Dalrymple in the Guardian.
- Sarah Williams' Damnable Practises; review by Penelope Gouk at H-Net Reviews.
- Ronald White's American Ulysses; review by Chris Fobare at H-Net Reviews.
Upcoming Auctions
- Western & Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures at Drewatts & Bloomsbury on 6 July.
- Fine Books & Manuscripts at Potter & Potter on 8 July.
