Panel Discussion on 'Beautiful Books'
The Wheeler Centre has uploaded video of the 2013 Melbourne Rare Book Week opening night panel discussion 'Beautiful Books':http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/beautiful-books/'Passionate...
View ArticleEyewitness Letter to the Capture of Ned Kelly Surfaces After 133 Years
The Victorian bushranger Edward 'Ned' Kelly is one of nineteenth-century Australia's most well known and controversial figures. His exploits in Victoria and southern New South Wales, which culminated...
View ArticlePreserving Blaeu's 'Archipelagus Orientalis'
[A look at the conservation work being done on the National Library of Australia's copy of Joan Blaeu's map, the Archipelagus Orientalis, sive Asiaticus (1663), acquired by the NLA earlier this year....
View ArticleUniversity of Melbourne Acquires Germaine Greer's Archive
News broke a few hours ago that the University of Melbourne has acquired the archive of one of its leading alumni, the notable academic and feminist, Germaine Greer.According to the write-up in The...
View ArticleUpdate: Australian & New Zealand Rare Book Summer School
The application form/ flyer for the 2014 Australian & New Zealand Rare Book Summer School is now available. There is also an online application form.Classes will run from 10 to 14 February. Please...
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Pacific Voyages: A Book That Sailed with Cook
[First, a bit of shameless promotion. This post was published earlier today on the revived Library Collections blog of the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne. This is where all my work related...
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Covered in Silk & Satin: Embroidered Bookbindings
Among the decorative and fine bindings held by Melbourne UL Special Collections are two examples of fabric/ textile bindings with embroidered decorations.Embroidered book covers were popular during the...
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Революция! Russian Satirical Journals from the 1905 Revolution
In 1977 the University of Melbourne Library acquired a large collection of Russian material from a private collector.[1] Included among the boxes of books, pamphlets and serials was a collection of...
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Bound for a Russian Princess
Towards the end of last year I highlighted a collection of Russian satirical journals and postcards from the 1905 Revolution. Today’s post continues the Russian theme by examining the provenance of an...
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Sixteenth-Century Manuscript Could Rewrite Australian History [Updated]
[Update, 18.01.14: 'That's No Kangaroo on the Manuscript' from livescience.com]Story from today's The Age reported by Charli Newton:Image of what is thought to be a kangaroo on a 16th-century...
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Woodcuts in the Italian and French Editions
First published by Aldus Manutius in 1499 and praised for its typographical design and early Renaissance woodcut illustrations, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is one of the most famous books to come...
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State Library of Victoria Medieval Manuscripts Online
The Ascension of Christ, historiated initial ‘C’, Italy, 15C(State Library of Victoria, RARES 096 IL I)The State Library of Victoria in Melbourne holds 27 medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Last...
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De Doctrina Christiana Receives Shawcross Award
Librarians are always pleased to hear about successes stemming from a user's research. Special collections librarians in particular are especially pleased when that research demonstrates the importance...
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Nullius in Verba: The Royal Society's Two Earliest Books
[First posted on the University of Melbourne Library Collections blog]Earlier this week the Royal Society announced the launch later this year of Royal Society Open Science, an open access...
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ANZAAB Conference and Melbourne Rare Book Week
The following was posted on the ANZAAB website.Conference in May'The most agreeable servants of civilization' Booksellers and Librarians in a Changing WorldA Joint Conference of the Australian and New...
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Vive le Roi! Richer-Sérisy's Journal L'Accusateur Public
[First posted on the University of Melbourne Library Collections blog]University of Melbourne Special Collections recently acquired a complete set of one of the most influential French...
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Altering Shakespeare: An Interleaved Copy of Antony and Cleopatra
[First posted on the University of Melbourne Library Collections blog]On 23 February 1855, the steamship Pacific docked in Melbourne harbour. Descending the gangway for his first tour of Australia was...
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Australia's First Banknote Sells for $334,000
[The following is from Auction Central News]SYDNEY (AFP) – The only surviving example of Australia's first official banknote exceeded expectations when it was auctioned for AUD $334,000 (USD $310,000),...
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Original Les Miserables Manuscript on Its Way to Melbourne
[The following is from the Herald Sun website]The original 1862 manuscript of Les Miserables— considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century — is on its way to Melbourne.Victor Hugo’s...
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Provenance in Pictures: Tracking the Ownership of Three Early Printed Books
[First posted on University of Melbourne Library Collections blog]Last week a group of Melbourne bibliophiles were treated to a delightful talk by preeminent bookman Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book...
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