The stretch from 1833 up through early 1834 was a pretty good run for the Chester County (Penna.) Cabinet of Natural Science. The museum published its seventh report in April 1834, and while its pages... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from June 2014
The Library Company of Philadelphia, “America's oldest cultural institution,” traces its history back to the good offices of Benjamin Franklin, who was instrumental in establishing the Library Com... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Last December, the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at The Library of Congress held an excellent symposium on authenticity. “Authenticity,” was a day-long program that looked at one of t... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
For the past five years the New Bedford Whaling Museum has been sponsoring a scrimshaw show in conjunction with their annual Scrimshaw Symposium. This year they opened the show up to include a wider r... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item has been reported missing: RODIN, AUGUSTE. Signed postcard photograph with inscription, n.p., n.d. He writes, "To Madame ...." and signs,... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Update: these items were recovered in 2016. (5/31/2019) Bay Leaf Books in downtown Newaygo, Michigan, was robbed last Thursday evening. Below is a list of books that were taken, a couple of which were... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from May 2014
This past April, the biggest news to hit the antiquarian book trade in roughly 400 years became public: my colleagues Dan Wechsler and George Koppelman, booksellers in New York City, unveiled a copy o... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Last week the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced its acquisition of writer Ian McEwan's archive. The archive is comprised of a broad range of materials, from childhood ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The Midwest Chapter of the ABAA has just announced a new annual scholarship to the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar! Details for 2014 applicants are below. The Florence Shay/Midwest Chapter CABS Scho... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
A contest held by the University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center has cracked the code of handwritten marginalia in a 1504 Venetian edition of Homer's Odyssey. Collector M.C. Lang dona... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]