Sunday, May 20, 2018

Links & Auctions

- In the Guardian, AN Devers explains what inspired her Second Shelf project, which now includes a Kickstarter campaign.

- Daniel Elkind writes for PDR about the "lost art of intarsia."

- Heather Wolfe has an update on the next phase of the Shakespeare's World project, Before Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures.

- Wendi Maloney posts a Q&A with Kenneth Breisch on the LC's Inquiring Minds blog about Breisch's new book about American library architecture.

- Over at Books @ Bromer, "Finding Something Never Lost: A 'Ghost' Edition of Ovid."

- Simon Beattie highlights a really interesting book he will be offering at this week's London Rare Book Fair.

- Heather Wacha's work on book stains is featured in the Wisconsin State Journal.

- In Pacific Standard, Sophie Yeo writes about the effects of climate change on collections of rare books and manuscripts.

- From Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, "An Effaced Ink Stamp Deciphered."

- Aïda Amer writes for Atlas Obscura about "How a Hole Punch Shaped Public Perception of the Great Depression."

- Michael Dirda offers up his summer reading list in the WaPo.

Upcoming Auctions

- Fine Autograph Music: the Property of Helmut Nanz and Family and Musical Manuscripts at Sotheby's London on 22 May.

- Fine Prints at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on 23 May.

- Livres et Manuscrits at Sotheby's Paris on 24 May.

- Books & Prints at Arenberg Auctions on 25 May.

- Livres rares et Manuscrits at Christie's Paris on 29 May.

- Wassenaar Zoo: A Dutch Private Library at Bonhams London on 30 May.

- Modern First Editions, Illustrated Books & Limited Editions at Chiswick Auctions on 30 May.

- Americana with Manuscript Material - Travel & Exploration - Cartography at PBA Galleries on 31 May.

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Links & Reviews

- Mark Godburn has a guest post at The Bookhunter on Safari about what appears to be a contemporary "dust-jacket" on a 1559 book.

- From Shakespeare's World, a new report on some important new OED examples discovered during the transcription process.

- Over at The Collation, "Hinman, Redux," by Andrew J. Walkling.

- Now available for searching, the Scottish Book Trade Index.

- Reminder: the deadline for the 2018 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is 1 June.

Reviews

- Sara Milstein's Tracking the Master Scribe; review by Michael Hundley at Marginalia.

- Tom Feiling's The Island That Disappeared; review by Michael Pye in the NYTimes.

- James E. Lewis Jr.'s The Burr Conspiracy; review by Edward G. Gray in the TLS.

Upcoming Auctions

- 19th & 20th Century Literature at Swann Galleries on 15 May.

- Antiquarian and Collectors' Books at Toovey's on 15 May.

- Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History Including the Library of Colin and Joan Deacon at Sotheby's London on 15 May.

- Printed Books, Maps & Documents at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 16 May.

- Spring Miscellany at PBA Galleries on 17 May.

Sunday, May 06, 2018

Links & Reviews

- May's Rare Book Monthly articles include Bruce McKinney's "Inhumanity in New York," Michael Stillman running down an upcoming Supreme Court ruling which will affect the collection of out-of-state sales tax and on recidivist Irish book and art thief Andrew Shannon heading back to jail, Thibault Ehrengardt on that Mont-Saint-Michel manuscript mentioned last week, and Susan Halas on "Women in the Antiquarian Book Trade."

- Over at Notabilia, "Vestiges of a Lost Carolingian Bible Discovered at Princeton."

- Many congratulations to Kevin J. Hayes, awarded the 2018 George Washington Book Prize for George Washington: A Life in Books.

- Kare Ozment posts at Sammelband about "Teaching Manuscripts: Commonplace Books."

- Cambridge University Librarian Jessica Gardner writes for the Independent about a new exhibition, Tall Tales: Secrets of the Tower.

- Alison Flood reports for the Guardian about some recent scholarship on the sources used during the drafting of the King James Bible.

- The University of Illinois has acquired Isaac Newton's manuscript translation of the alchemical tract "Opus Galli Anonymi."

- Nadine Zimmerli writes for Uncommon Sense: "Atomic Bonds," about a library book borrowed by J. Robert Oppenheimer.

- Dan Cohen has a good writeup of the newly-launched Boston Resource Center.

- Meghan Brody posts for the Clements Library Chronicle about working with the John Louis Ligonier letter books.

- A "Jack the Ripper warning postcard" was hammered down for £22,000 at a Kent auction house.

- More notes on the "Provenance of the NYPL-Duke Bible" at Medieval Manuscripts Provenance.

- Michael Caines writes for the TLS on "Acquiring Kapital" - Marx's works on the antiquarian book market.

Reviews

- Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Feather Thief; review by Maureen Corrigan for NPR.

- Patricia O'Toole's The Moralist; review by Jennifer Szalai in the NYTimes.

- Christopher Buckley's The Judge Hunter; review by Michael Dirda in the WaPo.

Upcoming Auctions

- Autographed Documents, Manuscripts, Photos, Books & Relics at University Archives on 8 May.

- Comics & Comic Art at Heritage Auctions from 10–12 May.

- Rare, Out-of-Print, and Used Books at the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society on 11 May.