Sunday, March 31, 2019

Links & Reviews

Coming up next weekend, the Virginia Antiquarian Book Fair. Not to be missed, if you're anywhere within striking distance!

- A new blog likely to be of interest to many: Listology.

- From last weekend's NYTimes magazine, "The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside the Times's Printing Plant."

- A very nice new online exhibition from the University of Michigan: Marks in Books.

- Mark Pratt for the AP has a report on the new research effort led by a team from Merrimack College to find the burial place of Anne Bradstreet.

- Antiquarian bookseller John DeMarco of the wonderful Saratoga Springs bookshop Lyrical Ballad died this week at the age of 70. The ABAA has a memorial post on their blog.

- Over at Res Obscura, "The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587."

- A theft alert from the ABAA blog, a copy of Tractatus de Attentatis et Innovatis (Rome, 1576). See their post for photos and more info.

Review

- Eric Klinenberg's Palaces for the People and Susan Orlean's The Library Book; review by Sue Halpern in the NYRB.

Upcoming Auctions

- Beaux-Arts, Écrits & Correspondances de Peintres (Aristophil 15A) at Aguttes on 1 April.

- Écrits et Oeuvres d'Artistes du XVIe au XXe Siècle (Aristrophil 16) at Artcurial on 2 April.

- Poésie et littérature des XIXe et XXe Siècles (Aristophil 17) at Aguttes on 3 April.

- Feuillets d’Histoire (Aristophil 18) at Ader on 4 April.

- Grandes Figures Historiques (Aristophil 19) at Aguttes on 4 April.

Art & Illustration – Prints & Graphics – Illustrated Books – Miscellanea at PBA Galleries on 4 April.

- Histoire Postale, Guerre de 1870–1871 (Aristophil 20) at Aguttes on 5 April.

- Spring Auction at Arader Galleries on 6 April.