- The University of Edinburgh's fundraising campaign to keep the Charles Lyell notebooks in the UK has been successful!
- In similar news, the judge's copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover, also made subject to an export bar, has been acquired by Bristol University after a successful fundraising effort.
- A new film about antiquarian bookselling, The Booksellers, will debut tomorrow at the New York Film Festival. More from LitHub.
- Beverly Rogers, who recently established a $5 million endowment for the rare books and special collections program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, talked to UNLV news about some of the favorite books in her collection.
- Nicola Davis writes for the Guardian on some of the recent advances made in the painstaking process being deployed in an attempt to "read" the Herculaneum scrolls.
- October's Rare Book Monthly articles include a Susan Halas interview with bookseller Simon Beattie and Michael Stillman on "Collections Moving On, But Where To?"
- Princeton's exhibition Gutenberg & After includes a number of important and interesting online components.
- The HRC's permanent exhibition of the Niépce Heliograph has been updated with new introductory material, &c.
- Commonplace has relaunched at a new URL, http://commonplace.online/
- Over at Sammelband, "Teaching in the Maker Studio."
- The ABAA passed along an alert for two seventeenth-century titles missing from a San Francisco building lobby.
- From Janalyn Martinez for the Grolier Club, "A Noble Fragment."
Upcoming Auctions
- Livres Rares et Manuscrits at Christie's Paris on 7 October.
- Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photography at Lyon & Turnbull on 9 October.
- Books and Documents of the History of Mexico at Morton Subastas on 9 October.
- Fine Literature at PBA Galleries on 10 October.
- Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann Galleries on 10 October.
