- Rare Books LA continues today over on Getman's Virtual platform - don't miss that!
- I was very sorry to hear of the death of antiquarian bookseller Bob Rubin of Brookline, MA (see his Boston Globe obituary as posted on the Bowdoin College website, forwarded to ExLibris with added remembrances by Garrett Scott). I met Bob years ago when I was living in Boston, and always enjoyed learning from him when we ran into each other at book fairs. I regret that I never had the chance to buy a book from him: I tried for one back in 2007, but it had already sold (and showed up later in a UK dealer's catalog for triple the price). I will miss impromptu breakfasts at the Au Bon Pain on Boylston Street before the Boston shadow show, his great stories, and his thoroughly interesting catalogs.
- The Mills College First Folio sold at Christie's this week for $9,978,000 (including premiums), to Stephan Lowentheil.
- From The Collation, "Introducing the Folger Reference Image Collection" (2,600+ images!).
- Aaron Pratt has a post in the HRC Magazine's "What is Research?" series: "Learning how to read again."
- The ARCA blog has a report on the recovery of the London warehouse theft books.
- Coming up this week, RBS' panel discussion "Race and the Boundaries of the Book" - click the link to watch the seven pre-circulated presentations prior to the live event on 20 October.
- Many congratulations to Lindsay DiCuirci, winner of the 2020 Library Company of Philadelphia First Book Award for Colonial Revivals.
- Over at Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, a two-parter on Felix Joubert: Forger and Collector?
- Hilary Mantel's in the Guardian's "You Ask the Questions" column.
- From UC Davis, "Historians to Digitize Endangered Peruvian Archive."
- The Princeton Graphic Arts collection blog highlights some of their Mame et Compagnie "chocolate box" bindings.
- Mostly paywalled, but there's a report in the Times that the Royal College of Physicians is planning an auction of "non-medical" rare books from the collection bequeathed by the Marquess of Dorchester in 1680.
- Conservator Barbara Adams Hebard takes a look at some wooden bindings in the John J. Burns Library.
- Don't miss the @RareUVA Twitter thread honoring Gayle Cooper on the occasion of her fiftieth year as UVA's Rare Book Cataloger. Huzzah, Gayle!
- Over on the BL's Medieval Manuscripts blog, "Early medieval interlace."
- This month's Middle Temple Library provenance mystery is another good puzzler!
- On the SHARP blog, "On Decolonising Book History."
- From Books & Borrowing, "Broughton House Visit."
- The Bibliographical Society (UK) has announced a couple of upcoming Zoom talks, with more to follow in the spring.
- From Carolien Stolte for the Leiden University Special Collections blog, "The Esperanto textbooks that never were."
Reviews
- Susanna Clarke's Piranesi; review by Alex Preston in the Guardian.
- Ariel Sabar's Veritas; review by David Conrads in the CSM.
Upcoming Auctions
- Livres anciens du XVe au XIXe siècle at ALDE on 20 October.
- Americana, Travel, and Natural History at Bonhams New York on 21 October.
- Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions on 22 October.
- Fine Photographs at Swann Galleries on 22 October.
- Fine Books – Fine Press – Fine Bindings at PBA Galleries on 22 October.
