- From Scientific American, "Peering beneath the Surface of Ancient Manuscripts."
- A €10 million redevelopment plan has been announced by the National Library of Ireland.
- Roger Gaskell and Erin Schreiner write about the new replica 18th-century rolling press at Rare Book School at JHIBlog.
- From Aaron Pratt at Cultural Compass (the HRC blog), "Instructions for reading aloud in the Gutenberg Bible."
- The Watkinson Library at Trinity College has acquired the personal library of Trinity alumnus Charles Hayden Proctor, kept intact since Proctor's death in 1890.
- Nate Pedersen talks to Edwin D. Rose for the FB&C "Bright Young Collectors" series.
- ABAA posted an alert about a missing book in San Francisco.
- Willamette Week highlights The Brautigan Library.
- The MHS has acquired Col. Robert Gould Shaw's Civil War sword, which recently turned up in a Shaw family home.
- At the Peter Harrington blog, "The Book Huntresses: Women Bibliophiles."
- Katy Lasdow talks to Alea Henle for the Junto's "Where Historians Work" series.
- There's a fascinating update on the Discovering Lost Manuscripts Project at the University of St. Andrews.
- A new exhibition at Marsh's Library highlights the stories of books stolen from the library since its founding.
- Biblio and Rare Book Hub are partnering to allow Hub subscribers to sell directly through the site using Biblio's search and e-commerce systems.
- Sarah Hovde posts at The Collation about some tricky Shakespearean "novelettes."
- Book collector Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell is featured as the ONDB "Life of the Week."
- Over at Steamboats Are Ruining Everything, Caleb Crain offers "A Longitudinal study of self-presentation on the interwebs."
- Biographer Kenneth Silverman died this week; see the NYTimes obituary.
- The ABAA blog reposts Richard Norman's "History of Vellum and Parchment."
- Book collector John Mellman has posted a "History and Personal Assessment" of the Harper Torchbooks series at Publishing History.
- I've begun playing around with Tropy, a new software program for research photo management from CHNM. Still in beta, but it looks really promising so far! [h/t Mitch Fraas]
Book Reviews
- The Card Catalog; review by Michael Lindgren in the WaPo.
- Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home; review by Amy Bloom in the NYTimes.
- Helen Kelly's Jane Austen: The Secret Radical; review by John Sutherland in the NYTimes.
- Fred Kaplan's Lincoln and the Abolitionists; review by Manisha Sinha in the WaPo.
Upcoming Auctions
- Printed Books, Maps & Documents at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 19 July.
- Children's & Illustrated Books at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 20 July.
- Space Exploration at Sotheby's New York on 20 July.
