- Fifteen arrests were made this week in Romania and the UK in relation to the January 2017 theft of rare books from a shipping warehouse near London. The investigation also led to more than forty property searches in the UK, Romania, and Italy. None of the press releases or media reports I've found indicate whether any of the stolen books were recovered.
- A new episode of PBS' "Secrets of the Dead" focusing on the forged Sidereus Nuncius will premiere on Tuesday, 2 July at 8 p.m.
- The ABAA issued a "Missing Items Lost in Transit" alert for two manuscripts purchased at auction in July 2017 and subsequently gone missing in shipment.
- Over on the BL's Medieval Manscripts blog, "Noah's Ark and the Anglo-Saxons" and "Unexpected encounters of the fragmentary kind."
- Tim Barrett's work is featured in a recent issue of the Daily Iowan.
- The DPLA has issued a new strategic plan for 2019–22.
- The B.H. Breslauer Foundation has given $25,000 to further support the ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography, which will next be awarded in 2022.
- A major fracas is brewing over the sale of several early biblical manuscript fragments. Candida Moss has an overview for the Daily Beast, but see also the EES statement and the several posts from this week on Brent Nongbri's blog Variant Readings.
- At LitHub, M. Sophia Newman on early movable type in China and Korea.
- The National Library of Scotland has a new exhibition on the Scottish Enlightenment, which includes an excellent online component.
- A new Bodleian Library exhibition will feature maps from the library's collections.
- Allison Ebner and Ann Manser write for UD Daily about the recent "Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art" symposium.
- Simon Beattie put together a good list of places to talk about rare books and the like on Facebook, if you're so inclined.
Reviews
- Stuart Kells' The Library; review by Dennis Duncan in the Spectator.
- Jerry Kelly's Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed; review by Pradeep Sebastian in The Hindu.
Upcoming Auctions
- Bibliothèque Paul Destribats at Christie's Paris on 3–5 July.
- Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions (online) on 3 July.
