- First, there was actually a bit of surprising good news this week: the rare books stolen from a London-area warehouse in early 2017 have been recovered intact in the Romanian county of Neamt.
- Some more good news: the next Getman's Virtual event will be the CABS Virtual Antiquarian Book Fair, on 25–27 September.
- And a bit more, even! The winners of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest and the Honey & Wax Prize were announced this week.
- The Scottish Borrowers' Registers project will soon include the loans register of Craigston Castle in Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
- The Library of Congress has launched a new tool for searching images in historical newspapers.
- At The Collation, Sujata Iyengar offers "A Guided Tour of an Incunabulum from 1478."
- Rebecca Rego Barry rounds up some new biblio-fiction on the Fine Books Blog.
- On the Shakespeare & Beyond blog, an "Up Close" look at a 1797 caricature of the Shakespeare-forging Ireland family.
- From Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, "The Antiphonary of Marguerite de Baconel."
- Swann withdrew a 16th-century manuscript copy of an order to Cortes and Pedro de Alvorado from their 24 September sale after researchers suggested that it had very likely been stolen from the national archives of Mexico.
- Rosa Lyster writes on "Lost Libraries" for the Paris Review.
- A new virtual exhibition focuses on book edges in the KU Leuven libraries and other Belgian collections.
- "Whacky Victorian Imagery" is the order of the day on the Ephemera Society blog.
- Penn's Workshop in the History of Material Texts now has a YouTube channel, and their first talk of the season, on Milton's copy of Shakespeare with Claire Bourne and Jason Scott-Warren, is now available.
- Rare Book School's "Black Print Culture" discussion from earlier this month is also now online.
Upcoming Auctions
- Books & Manuscripts at Artcurial on 22 September.
- Books and Manuscripts at Il Ponte on 22 September.
- A Further Selection of 16th & 17th-Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library at Forum Auctions on 24 September.
- Printed & Manuscript Americana at Swann Galleries on 24 September.
- Americana – Travel & Exploration – World History – Cartography at PBA Galleries on 24 September.
- Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions on 25 September.
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