- Kurt Zimmerman found some excellent biblio-association items recently, which he recounts in "Miss Stillwell and F. Richmond: The Recording of Incunabula in America."
- Pierre de Coubertin's "Olympic Manifesto" manuscript sold for $8,806,500 this week, setting a new auction record for sports memorabilia. The buyer has not been announced.
- The copy of Audubon's Birds of America, also at Sotheby's this week, sold for $6,642,400. Barron's reports that the buyer was Graham Arader.
- Over on the Fine Books Blog, Barbara Basbanes Richter on "Books in Movies: Binding for Little Women."
- From Freya Parr in the Guardian, "Browsing the dream" about spending a week managing The Open Book in Wigtown, Scotland.
- The Vatican Library has launched Thematic Pathways on the Web, offering annotations and narratives for manuscripts from their collections.
- Mills College will sell their copy of the Shakespeare First Folio and a Mozart music manuscript to support college functions.
- Jeffrey William Grande has been charged with the trafficking of stolen property after he sold four rare books to a Scottsdale, AZ rare book shop. The books had been stolen from the home of an acquaintance. Grande will appear in court on 13 January.
- From Peter Kidd at Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, "The Brölemann 'Catalogue A' has Resurfaced," noting the upcoming sale at auction of an important manuscript catalogue of the Brölemann collection (also I begin to suspect the auctioneer's estimate may be a tad under on this one).
- The AP reports on the ongoing sales at Heritage Auctions of Jim Davis' "Garfield" cartoons.
- Rebecca Rego Barry reviews the exhibition of Lisa Baskin's collection now on display at the Grolier Club, "Five Hundred Years of Women's Work."
- There's a new "missing in transit" notice from the ABAA.
- From the Washington State University "Insider," "Searching for La Belle Dame."
- In the HRC Magazine, "The Conservation Behind the Blaeu World Map."
- I was very sorry to hear of the death of bookseller Dan Siegel of M&S Rare Books on 18 December. Obituary. I can't say it any better than Garrett Scott did on Twitter: "I offer the highest praise for a bookselling colleague that I could imagine: He had a great eye for interesting material."
A quiet week in the salerooms coming up. Happy holidays, all! May your stockings be full of good books.
