- The Library of Congress has acquired the Codex Quetzalcatzin, a pre-1600 Mesoamerican codex.
- New from the wonderful Brattle Book Shop, Brattlecast, a short podcast about rare books and the business of selling them.
- Try out the Folger's new DIY First Folio site, where you can practice making your own in their virtual printing house.
- The new Magdalen College Oxford exhibition, "Fragments of Note: The Afterlives of Medieval Manuscripts" is now open - and the short video linked at the bottom of that page, "Singing the Collections," is well worth a look.
- Author Richard Adams' library will go on the block at Dominic Winter on 14 December. View the lots, or read a Guardian piece about the sale. I wish there was better cataloging on the group lots so that a full inventory of Adams' collection could be captured - if anybody reads this who is going to the preview and wants to spend a bit of them jotting down citations, I would be eternally grateful!
- Surekha Davies posts at The Collation on "Collecting the world in seventeenth-century London."
- Rebecca Rego Barry has the annual Fine Books Notes holiday roundup of books about books.
- The second installment in the Echoes from the Vault series on visualizing the St. Andrews biographical register is out.
- If you missed the Bibliography Among the Disciplines conference in October, there are 40+ hours of audio now available.
- Haven Hawley summarizes a visit to the Museum of Printing during this fall's APHA conference.
- Keith Houston writes about Thomas Jefferson's ivory notebook in a Miscellany post.
- A copy of Origin of Species annotated by Darwin is set to be sold at Christie's next month.
- Over at the Robb Report, "Harry Potter and the Ridiculous Run of Auction Records."
- From the Ransom Center magazine, a profile of translator Harriet de Ónis.
- Henry McGhie writes for the OUP blog about "The building blocks of ornithology."
Reviews
- Leslie Peirce's Empress of the East; review by Thomas Madden in the NYTimes.
- Caroline Fraser's Little House on the Prairie; review by Patricia Nelson Limerick in the NYTimes.
- Marion Rankine's Brolliology; review by Michael Lindgren in the WaPo.
Upcoming Auctions
- Livres Rares et Manuscrits at Christie's Paris on 28 November.
- Musical Manuscripts at Sotheby's London on 28 November.
- Printed Books & Manuscripts at Chiswick Auctions on 29 November.
- The Richard E. Bateman Collection on Celestial Mechanics - Science, Medicine & Technology - Rare Books & Manuscripts at PBA Galleries on 30 November.
